OBIT: David J. MILLER, 1915, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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Miller, David J.

  David Miller, aged 87 years, died Thursday morning in the Somerset County 
Almshouse. His remains were buried Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in the 
cemetery at Husband.

Meyersdale Commercial, Dec. 2, 1915

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BURIED IN COFFIN BOUGHT YEARS AGO, At Somerset, last Thursday, David J. Miller, 
an eccentric old bachelor, was buried in the casket he selected more than three 
years ago and which was held in storage at an undertaking establishment until 
taken out and dusted preparatory to receiving the remains of the owner. Miller's 
body was interred in a grave dug by men engaged long before to perform that 
service in the little cemetery at Husband. At the head of the newly made grave 
stands a massive granite monument on which the name of David J. Miller and the 
date of his birth are chiseled in large letters. The monument was erected six or 
seven years ago in the Husband Cemetery Association grounds adjoining the 
northern Somerset Borough boundary line, but about three years ago, Mr. Miller 
changed his mind and decided that he wished to be interred at the village of 
Husband. He caused the monument to be transferred to the cemetery at that place. 
Mr. Miller was born in Somerset Township June 1, 1827. When a young man he went 
west and for many years was successfully engaged in farming near Waterloo, Iowa. 
About twenty years ago he returned to Somerset and purchased a property on 
Catherine Street in which he resided alone until the time of his removal to the 
County Home, in order that he might receive proper attention. He acted 
voluntarily in taking up his residence at the County Home and paid for his 
maintenance. Miller called at the Huston undertaking rooms in Somerset early in 
July 1912 and after examining the caskets on hand selected one costing $150, it 
is said. His name was written on the bottom of the case and it was placed in the 
corner of the wareroom where it stood unmolested until last Thursday. - The 
Somerset Herald.

Meyersdale Commercial, Dec. 9, 1915