OBIT: Noah KEEFER, 1916, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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Keefer, Noah

  Noah Keefer, aged 7 years, died at his home in Somerset at an early hour 
Thursday morning after being afflicted for several months with paralysis. Mr. 
Keefer was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in Company H 171st Regiment 
Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was born in Stonycreek Township and was a son of the 
late Peter Keefer. He removed to Somerset in 1900, residing since that time. Mr. 
Keefer was married twice. He is survived by his second wife, Jennie Moser, and 
by the following children to his first wife, who was Mary Kann: Ida, wife of J. 
S. Mosholder; Jennie, wife of J. J. Swauger, and Walter Keefer of Johnstown, and 
George H. Keefer, of Shanksville. Funeral services were conducted at the Keefer 
residence at 10 o'clock Saturday morning by the Rev. A. G. Collins, pastor of 
the United Evangelical Church. Interment at Shanksville at 1 o'clock in the 
afternoon in charge of the R. P. Cummins' Post, No. 210, G. A. R. and James H. 
Hinchman Camp No. 122, of Veterans.

Meyersdale Commercial, June 15, 1916