OBIT: James Henry WALKER, 1948, Coal Run, Somerset County, PA

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JAMES HENRY WALKER

  James Henry Walker of Coal Run died at his home at 2:15 a.m., Friday, May 14, 
of coronary thrombosis.  He had been suffering from heart ailments for the last 
five years, but was seriously ill only one day before his death.
  Mr. Walker was a mine worker and had risen to be a mine foreman.  He lived all 
his life within a short distance of the place where he was born on May 16, 1888, 
a son of George P. and Ida C. (Staup) Walker, and was two days short of 60 years 
in age at his passing.
  He was a member of the Masonic and Moose lodges of Meyersdale, and of the 
United Mine Workers.
  His wife, nee Maggie E. Mull, died in May, 1933.  He is survived by two 
daughters - Mrs. Pauline Sheets of Clarksville, Pa., and Mrs. Grace Engle of 
Barrelville, Md.; by three sisters - Mrs. Milton P. Bowman of Salisbury, R.D. 1; 
Mrs. John O. May of Boynton and Mrs. Isabel Holler of Akron, O.; one brother, 
George W. Walker of Akron, and five grandchildren.
  Funeral services were conducted in the Thomas Chapel at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 
16.  Rev. Gerald Polman, pastor of the Main Street Brethren Church, Meyersdale, 
officiated.  Interment was in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Salisbury, in charge of 
Mortician Stanley M. Thomas.

Meyersdale Republican, May 20, 1948