OBIT: Isaiah Daniel LEYDIG, 1944, native of Somerset County, PA

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ISAIAH DANIEL LEYDIG

  Isaiah Daniel Leydig died Dec. 21, 1944, at Clewiston, Fla.  He was preceded 
in death by his son, Robert, in Oct. 1906, and his wife, Anna B., on Mar. 20, 
1944.
  Mr. Leydig was born near Glencoe, Pa., Dec. 31, 1858, the son of Dennis and 
Leah Troutman Leydig.  He was united in marriage to Anna B. Coleman, Apr. 5, 
1887, at Somerset, Pa.  He was in the general merchandising business in 
Salisbury with George K. Walker from 1887 to 1898, when he moved to Glencoe and 
opened a general merchandise store there which he operated until 1918.
  After retiring from business Mr. and Mrs. Leydig lived in a bungalow just out 
of Glencoe until the fall of 1928 when they moved to Clewiston, Fla., to reside 
with their daughters, Miss Marion F. Leydig and Mrs. Leah R. Spicer, and two 
granddaughters, Betty Spicer Bell and Roberta Spicer.  A daughter, Elizabeth, 
wife of Frederick W. DeLozier, and grandchildren, Marion and William DeLozier, 
reside in South Connellsville.  Simon R. Leydig of cumberland, Md., is the only 
brother living of a family of eight children.
  Mr. Leydig was a charter member of the Masonic Lodge of Meyersdale.
  He was buried at West Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 23.

Meyersdale Republican, December 28, 1944