OBIT: Peter CLAYCOMB, 1908, native of Bedford County, PA

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Peter CLAYCOMB

Bedford Gazette/24 July 1908

  Peter Claycomb was born near Osterburg in May 1818 and died at the home of his 
son Daniel at Cessna on July 14, 1908. He was a son of Conrad Claycomb, who 
died about 50 years ago, and was the last of a family of six boys and two 
girls. On March 28, 1840 he was married to Hannah Stambaugh to which union six 
sons were born: Phillip of Fremont, O., Conrad of Campbellsville, Ky., William 
of Queen, Daniel of Cessna, Frank of Troy, O., and Jonas of Brewerton, N. Y. 
He is also survived by 23 grandchildren. On November 23, 1882, his first wife, 
who was the mother of all his children, died; later he was married to Delia 
Hoenstine, who died April 5, 1895.
  Early in life he connected himself with the Reformed church from which he 
later transferred his membership to the St. Clairsville Lutheran church of 
which he was a faithful member to the time of his death. Funeral services were 
conducted by his pastor, Rev. J. H. Diehl, assisted by Rev. J. H. Zinn, at the 
St. Clairsville Lutheran church on July 16. Interment in the old cemetery.


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