OBIT: Josiah GOUCHNOUR, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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Josiah Gochnour

  Hiram Gouchnour, the veteran rail-roader, last Saturday received from his 
niece, Mrs. Ollie Palmquist, Leavenworth, Wash., announcing the death of his 
brother, Josiah Gochnour, who passed away at her home May 27, in his 88th year. 
Josiah Gochnour had been suffering from stomach trouble for several weeks, but 
was able to be about his home until the evening of the 27th, when he was 
stricken with paralysis.
  The deceased was a son of Daniel and Katharine Amsbaugh Gochnour and was born 
February 6, 1826, interred Headrick's Cemetery above Conemaugh. He was one of a 
family of ten children  two girls and eight boys. Lucinda Gouchnour, aged six 
months died in September 1839, and her remains were the first to be interred in 
Headrick's Cemetery. The other sister is Mrs. I. C. Bole, of East Taylor 
Township. Four brothers--Adam, Ephraim, Clinton, and Stephen Gochnour--are dead, 
and the surviving brothers are William, of Conemaugh, who is in his 84th year, 
Hiram of East Taylor Township, and Benjamin Gochnour of the South Side, who is 
an Elder of the First Progressive Brethren Church, Somerset street.
  Josiah Gochnour was a carpenter by trade and was employed for a long time at 
the Wood Morrell & Co. place at Mineral Point before going West in the fall of 
1872. He settled in Black Hawk County, Iowa, going from there in a prairie 
schooner to Little River, Kan. His wife Mrs. Barbara Dimond Gochnour, was also a 
native of East Taylor Township and died at little River about 1896 or 1897. Some 
time after her death he went to the State of Washington where he had since made 
his home. Besides his sister and brothers, Mr. Gochnour is survived by four 
daughters, three sons, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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