OBIT: Jonathon MEAGER, 1943, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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JONATHON MEAGER

  Jonathon Meager died at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. 
Andrew T. Schnelzer, of 500 North Street, Meyersdale, Tuesday Oct. 5, at 4 p.m.  
He was a native of England, born April 2, 1856, and was aged 87 years, 6 months 
and 3 days.
  He was a retired coal miner and had made his home with the Schnelzers for some 
time.  He is survived by two sons, Victor Meager of Eckhart, Md., and Edwin J. 
Meager, of Meyersdale, and three daughters, Mrs. C. H. Williams, Yakima, Wash.; 
Mrs. W. A. Brace, Cayuse, Ore., and Mrs. Schnelzer of Meyersdale; also by 14 
grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.  His wife, Mary Hider Meager, died in 
1935.
  Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2:30 at the Schnelzer home by 
Rev. Nelson C. Brown in the absence of the pastor of the Methodist Church of 
which church he was a member.  W. C. Price and Son have charge of funeral 
arrangements.

Meyersdale Republican, October 7, 1943