Perk Joseph Obit-1907- Rockingham Co., VA ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ SOURCE: Harrisonburg Daily News, Harrisonburg, Virginia (Monday, February 4, 1907) HEADLINE: Perk Joseph’s Sudden Death. Stircken with Apoplexy Friday Night on Skidmore Fork. Expired at Hoover’s Sugar Camp. Fatally Attacked While Driving Wagon in the Mountain. ARTICLE: Perk Joseph, a well known lumberman residing near Rawley Springs, died suddenly of apoplexy late Friday night at Hoover’s sugar camp. Joseph had gone into the mountain early in the week to establish a saw-mill on the Fork. He was stricken about 8 o’clock Friday evening, while on his way back to camp from a trip into the mountains. He was driving his lumber team and was accompanied by Otto Karl and Erasmus Hoover. In the darkness his companions heard him groan and saw the outline of his body fall across the wagon bed. They went to his assistance and found him unconscious. He was hurried to the camp, where he died about 11 o’clock. The body was brought to his home at the toll-gate on the Rawley Springs Turnpike, near Dry River, during the night, reaching the latter place shortly before daylight Saturday morning. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock from the Mennonite church at Mt. Clinton. The services were conducted by Rev. Gabriel Heatwole, of the Mennonite church, and Abram S. Thomas, of Spring Creek, a minister of the German Baptist church, of which the deceased was a member. Mr. Joseph was born near Rawley Springs January 8, 1863, and had just entered his forty-fifth year. He was a son of the late Moses Joseph. He leaves a widow, who was Miss Malinda Piner, of near Rawley, and six children; also one brother, Robert Joseph, and a sister, Mrs. Moses Wenger, near Harrisonburg. He also leaves several half-brothers and sisters. Mr. Joseph was one of the best known lumbermen of the Rawley Springs section and had many friends in Harrisonburg.