OBIT: Francis LINT, 1944, Greenville Township, Somerset County, PA

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FRANCIS LINT

  Francis Lint, aged 75 years, died Sunday evening, August 6, in the Somerset 
State Hospital, where he had been a patient for five months.
  A native of Greenville Township, he was born July 6, 1869, a son of the late 
Noah and Sarah (Glotfelty) Lint.  Surviving are four sisters, Mrs. Susan 
McPhail, Meyersdale; Miss Annie Lint, superintendent of Miners Hospital, 
Frostburg, and the Misses Ellen and Clara Lint, residing on the home farm in 
Greenville Township.  A brother, Josiah N. Lint, died at his home here in June, 
and a sister, Mrs. Campbell Graham, fell dead at her home in Cresaptown, Md., 
while making preparations to attend the funeral of her brother.
  Francis Lint was a retired farmer and a member of the Evangelical and Reformed 
Church, Meyersdale.  He was also a member of both the Hebron Chapter and the 
Blue Lodge of the Masons, at Meyersdale, a director of the Farm Bureau 
Cooperative and of the Somerset County Rural Electric Cooperative, and also held 
membership in Friendship Grange, Greenville Township.  He was for many years one 
of Somerset County's most progressive farmers. 
  Funeral services were conducted at the Lint home in Greenville Township on 
Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Ira S. Monn, pastor of St. John's Evangelical and 
Reformed Church, Salisbury.  Interment was made in Greenville Cemetery, in 
charge of W. C. Price and Son, local morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, August 10, 1944