OBIT: John Oliver SAYLOR, 1949, native of Somerset County, PA

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JOHN OLIVER SAYLOR

  John Oliver Saylor was born October 26, 1865, at Meyersdale, Pa., and died in 
Carleton, Nebr., February 21, at the age of 83 years, three months and 25 days.
  He is survived by his wife, Ella Saylor; four sons, Homer of Carleton, Nebr.; 
Lloyd of Los Angeles, Calif.; Galen of Lincoln, Nebr., and Elbert of Tucson, 
Ariz.; a step-daughter, Mrs. Maude Spolm of Hutchinson, Kan.; a sister, Mrs. 
Susan Ebaugh of Meyersdale, Pa.; three brothers, Newton and Edward of Meyersdale 
and Simon of Waterloo, Ia.; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.  A 
son, Harold, preceded him in death.
  John Oliver was the son of William and Kate (Phillippi) Saylor.  His boyhood 
days were spent at the family home on Saylor Hill adjoining Meyersdale.  He went 
to Nebraska in the spring of 1888.  Later he went to Waterloo, Ia., and then to 
Morrill, Kan., finally returning to Nebraska in 1891, where he purchased a farm 
near Carleton and spent the remainder of his life there until he retired and 
moved to Carleton in 1944.
  On February 2, 1899, he married Miss Amanda Ellen Rathrock, daughter of Elder 
E. S. and Susan Rathrock.  Mrs. Saylor died in 1912 and, in 1913, he married 
Ella ?utzman Eash who survives.
  Mr. Saylor was a faithful member of the Church of the Brethren, Bethel, Nebr., 
where he served as Sunday School teacher, superintendent and deacon in the 
church.
  Funeral service was held at the Bethel Church, Thursday, Feb. 21, with the 
Rev. Foster Meyers officiating.  Interment was made in Bethel Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, March 10, 1949