OBIT: Elias T. PECK, 1942, native of Somerset County, PA

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ELIAS T. PECK

  Elias T. Peck, 72, died recently in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Hospital, Falls 
City, Nebraska, following an emergency operation.
  He was a son of the late George and Sarah Maust Peck, and was born in Elk Lick 
Township, Somerset County, Pa., in the old farm house on Bird Bros' famous 
poultry farm.  The family moved to Richardson County in the spring of 1870.
  May 1, 1902, Mr. Peck and Miss Anna May Keller were married in Somerset County 
and returned to Nebraska and settled on a farm six miles north of Falls City.
  Without discontinuing farming, Mr. Peck taught for 18 years in several rural 
schools of the county.  He was superintendent of the Sunday school of   the 
Church of the Brethren near his home for more than 40 years and served as 
president of the Richardson County Association of Sunday Schools.  He also was a 
trustee of McPherson College, McPherson, Kansas, at the time of his death.  
  In 1930 Mr. Peck was elected to the House of Representatives of the Nebraska 
state legislature in which he served from 1931 to 1933.
  Surviving are his wife, one daughter, Miss Bernice Peck of Chicago; and one 
son, Dr. Willard Peck, Marine Medical Corps, San Diego, Calif.; two sisters, 
Mrs. Maggie Miller, Waterloo, Ia., and Mrs. Ira Kinrig, Beatrice, Neb., and two 
brothers, Cleon Peck, Falls City, and Lloyd Peck, Reserve, Kansas.  Preceding 
him in death were one son, Leonard Peck, who died in 1918; three sisters, Mrs. 
John Wiltse and Mrs. Rena Humbarger and Mrs. C. P. Shaffer and two brothers, who 
died in infancy.  
  Mrs. J. J. Schrock of Somerset is a sister of Mrs. Peck.
  Elias T. Peck was a second cousin of the late Elders Jacob W. and Lewis A. 
Peck.

Meyersdale Republican, December 3, 1942