Vitals: Obits: Black, David, Indiana Co, PA SUBJECT: David Black obit SUBMITTER: Shirley D McMunn EMAIL: callmemum@hotmail.com DATE: Jan 02, 1999 SURNAMES: BLACK, TOOKE STRICKEN DEAD IN CHURCH DAVID BLACK, an old and well known citizen of this place, was stricken dead in the U.B.church last Sunday evening while preparing the church for the evening worship. He had been in poor health for several months with heart trouble and was feeling rather worse on Sunday than usual, being scarcely able to participate in Sunday school and other church services, but always punctual, he was performing his duties as sexton when the heart suddenly failed to perform its functions and he fell and expired in a few minutes. He leaves to morn a loving wife, a brother and two sisters. His children are James E., married and living near Richmond, Ella E, married to John TOOKE, of this place, and Clark E., married and living at Patton, and he was the great grandfather of twelve children. He was a kind and loving parent, always ready with a kind word and a loving smile. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted in the second Regiment of six month volunteers and at the expiration of the term of enlistment he reinlisted in Co. C, 206th Pennsylvania Volunteers and served until the close of the war. He had been an active G A R man for years, was a member of the Presbyterian church, and was laid to rest in the Mahaffey cemetery with G A R ceremony on Tuesday evening after services in the U. B. church conducted by Rev. C Kahler. - Mahaffey Gazette Mr. Black was a former resident of this county, has many relatives in the northeastern part of the county, and was well known to many of our readers. *** The date on the back of this clipping is July 19, 1901 which was Friday. It appears David died on Sunday, July 14, 1901. On the back, the clipping has the bottom portion of the following letters D E P E at the top of the page. This is part of the newspapers name(possibly INDEPENDENT); however, I have been unable to determine which paper it is. If you have any ideas, please let me know at callmemum@hotmail.com. ----------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent.