OBIT: Simon MYERS, 1940, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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SIMON MYERS

Grantsville, Maryland

  Relatives here received word Wednesday morning that Simon Myers, aged 76, died 
at the home of his brother, Henry Myers, at Oakland, about 7 o'clock Tuesday 
night, March 5, a victim of pneumonia.  Mr. Myers was injured in a fall the 
early part of February, from which he never recovered, and later pneumonia 
developed.
  He was born November 25, 1863.  He served several months as a private in the 
First Maryland Infantry during the war of 1898, and was a member of the Veterans 
of the Spanish American War, Potomac Encampment.  Mr. Myers was unmarried.  In 
addition to his brother, with whom he made his home, he is survived by two 
sisters, Mrs. Charles U. Edwards, Grantsville, who spent several days at his 
bedside at the last, and Mrs. Ellen Lohr, Oakland.  Funeral services were 
conducted at Oakland Thursday afternoon in charge of the Proctor Kildow Post No. 
71, American Legion.

Meyersdale Republican, March 14, 1940