OBIT: Charles PLATTER, 1941, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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CHARLES PLATTER

Grantsville, Maryland

  Rev. Foster Bittinger, pastor of the Church of the Brethren, conducted funeral 
services Thursday morning, Dec. 4, for Charles Platter, who died Tuesday morning 
at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Butler, near 
here.  The services were held from the Laughlin school house and interment was 
in a nearby cemetery.
  Mr. Platter was aged seventy-one years, nine months and twelve days.  Born at 
Grantsville, Feb. 20, 1870, he was a son of Henry and Rachel Bittinger Platter.  
His entire life had been spent in this section where he engaged in farming.  
Since the death of his wife, the former Jane Durst, of McHenry, about a year 
ago, he had been residing with his children.  Of the twelve children born of his 
marriage, eight survive.  They are, Mrs. Earl Resh, Mrs. Jefferson Durst, Elroy 
Platter, Silas Platter, Joseph Platter and Irvin Platter, all of Grantsville, 
Mrs. Freeman Butler and Orvis Platter, near Salisbury.  Also surviving are 
forty-seven grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs. 
Jesse Wilt, Salisbury, Mrs. Joseph Bittinger, Uniontown, and Mrs. Thomas Wilt, 
Swanton, and four brothers, Silas Platter, Wellsburg, Pa., Henry, Jacob and 
Thomas Platter, Grantsville.

Meyersdale Republican, December 11, 1941