OBIT: Abraham Lincoln WEDGE, 1941, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN WEDGE

  Death claimed a highly esteemed and beloved resident of Meyersdale last Friday 
evening at 10:05 by calling Abraham Lincoln Wedge to eternal rest.  Mr. Wedge's 
condition had been critical for three weeks.
  He was born September 4, 1868, and he was the son of Mary Anne and Charles 
Wedge.  He was united in marriage to Sarah Jane Flickinger on June 27, 1899.  
Eleven children were born of this union, eight of whom survive: Mrs. Mary C. 
Needham of Allegany, N.Y.; Mrs. Charles Miller of Somerset; Louther D. of 
Smithfield; William T. of York Run; Mrs. Dessie Bittner of Meyersdale; Charles 
E. of York Run; John A. of Boynton, and Arthur L. at home.  A sister, Mrs. Clara 
Scott of Ligonier, and a brother, Isaac, of Oneco, Florida, also survive.  In 
addition to the above survivors, Mr. Wedge also had 24 grandchildren and 2 
great-grandchildren.
  Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with a brief 
prayer service at the home in Trans-Meyersdale and then at the Main Street 
Brethren Church by the Rev. Sibert of Pittsburgh.  Three selections, "Near To 
The Heart of God", "In the Upper Garden", and "The Eastern Gate" were rendered 
by Mrs. Floyd Sibert, Mrs. Harry Berkshire and Edgar Berkshire during the 
services.  Miss Frances Stalker presided at the piano.  Interment followed at 
the Union Cemetery in the family plot under the direction of W. C. Price and 
Son.
  The pallbearers were William Landis, Lloyd Peck, Robert Peck, Orville Folk, 
John Mimmie and Charles Martz.
  Mr. Wedge was a resident of Summit Township during the greater part of the 
last 50 years.  He was a coal miner during most of his adult years.  He was 
employed in the mines around Meyersdale for many years, and when work in the 
local coal mines got slack, he moved to Fayette County and worked in the mines 
there until his health got so bad that he had to give up work underground.  He 
suffered from miners' asthma for many years.
  Before he removed to Fayette County he lived at Scratch Hill a few miles 
northeast of Meyersdale.  When he moved back from Fayette County he established 
his home at Trans-Meyersdale.
  Mr. Wedge was a very industrious, hard-working, honest man and exemplary 
citizen.  He was a member of the Men's Bible Class of the Main Street Brethren 
Church and a regular attendant of church and Sunday school as long as his health 
permitted.
  Among the friends and relatives from out of town who attended were Mrs. Clara 
Scott, Ligonier; Mrs. Emma Baker, Fairhope; Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Wedge, 
Smithfield; Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Darrel, Smithfield; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Wedge and 
children, and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wedge and children, York Run; Mr. and Mrs. W. 
J. Needham and children and Mrs. Mary Alice Smith, Allegany, N.Y.; John Baker, 
Cumberland, Md.; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Baker, Wampum;  Mr. and Mrs. George Baker 
and son and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baker, Fairhope; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gaughen, 
Mt. Savage, Md.; Mrs. William Reckner and Clarence Suder, Salisbury; Mrs. Harry 
Berkshire and Edgar Berkshire of Masontown; Rev. and Mrs. Floyd Sibert and 
family of Pittsburgh and Miss Frances Stalker of Pittsburgh.

Meyersdale Republican, August 7, 1941