OBIT: Samuel M. FOX, 1942, Shanksville, Somerset County, PA

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SAMUEL M. FOX

  Samuel M. Fox, a life-long resident of Shanksville, died suddenly at his home 
in that borough Friday evening, Jan. 30.  He had been ill for three months.
  He was born January 18, 1868, in Somerset Township, a son of William and 
Caroline (Miller) Fox.  During 22 years of his life, he taught school.  He was 
in the hotel business 30 years and he also worked at the carpenter trade. After 
the Johnstown flood of 1889, he helped build the first house completed in 
Ferndale.
  He was a school director for 12 years, serving at the time the consolidated 
school building was erected at Shanksville.  He was a life long member of the 
United Brethren Church.
  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Bessie (Baltzer) Fox and two children, Kathryn, 
wife of Charles E. Platt, and John M. Fox, both of Shanksville, and seven 
grandchildren.

Meyersdale Republican, February 5, 1942