OBIT: Henry WARE, 1916, formerly of interest in Somerset and Bedford Counties, 
PA

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Ware, Henry
  WELL KNOWN MAN KILLED. Henry Ware For over 30 years a Resident of Williams' 
Struck by Work Train Thursday Evening. Henry W. Ware, 58 years of age, died at 
the Western Maryland Hospital in Cumberland on Monday from injuries received by 
being struck by a Baltimore & Ohio train at Williams on last Thursday evening. 
Mr. Ware was a merchant, express agent and postmaster at Williams. He was 
returning from the mail crane where he had placed a sack, when the train bore 
down on him. He never regained consciousness. He lived at Hyndman and went back 
and forth to his business daily by train. For thirty years he had been office 
man for the late J. J. Hoblitzell at the brick works. Mr. Ware was widely known 
and very popular in his community. He was well read and was unusually efficient 
in short hand, pursuing it as a matter of pleasure. He was also a telegraph 
operator. He was a member of the Methodist Church and was a Mason. He is 
survived by his wife. His only son died some years ago. The remains were 
interred at Mt. Zion on Bedford Pike.
 Meyersdale Commercial,  Feb. 24, 1916