OBIT: Michael LEGEER, 1932, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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MICHAEL LEGEER

Grantsville, Maryland

  Michael Legeer, aged 73 years, died Thursday evening, March 31st, at the home 
of John Swauger, with whom he had made his home the last five years.  His death 
was due to heart disease.  He was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1859, and 
came to the United States at the age of 6 years.  He settled in Vale Summit, 
Allegheny County, and engaged in mining in that region for fifteen years.  He 
moved to Garrett County and spent the remainder of his life at farming and 
mining.  He is survived by a sister, Miss Mary Legeer, of Somerset, Pa., and a 
brother, John Legeer, living near Jennings, Md.  Funeral services were held in 
the Bittinger Lutheran Church.   Burial was in the adjoining cemetery.  Rev. J. 
E. Walls conducted the obsequies.

Meyersdale Republican, April 14, 1932