OBIT: James P. WILEY, 1931, Somerfield, Somerset County, PA

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JAMES P. WILEY

Death of James P. Wiley, Last Civil War Veteran of Grantsville Community

  GRANTSVILLE, Dec. 1 - James P. Wiley, aged 87 years, a Civil War veteran and 
former resident of Garrett County, died at his home at Somerfield, Pa., Saturday 
evening, Nov. 28.
  Besides his widow, Mrs. Barbara Wiley, he leaves five sons, Grant, Milton and 
Harvey Wiley, of Grantsville; Ralph, of New Germany, and Edward, of Somerfield, 
and five daughters, Mrs. Ida Hager, Somerfield; Mrs. Anna Resh, Mrs. Harriet 
Resh, Bittinger; Mrs. Mintie Keefe, Saltville, Va.; Mrs. Lucretia Groove's, 
Frostburg.  He also leaves 42 grandchildren and 65 great-grandchildren.
  Funeral services were held in the Grantsville Lutheran Church on Tuesday 
afternoon, Dec. 1, conducted by Rev. S. D. Sigler, the pastor, assisted by Rev. 
Pollock of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Addison.  The pallbearers were six 
grandchildren.  Members of Earl H. Opel American Legion Post escorted the 
remains to the Grantsville Cemetery where a military service was held, a salute 
was fired and taps sounded for the last Civil War Veteran in this end of the 
county.
  A large number of relatives and friends from a distance attended the funeral.

Meyersdale Republican, December 3, 1931