OBIT: Peter Albert CORLEY, 1900, West End, Bedford County, PA

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Peter Albert Corley 
   
Peter Albert Corley died at his home, West End, March 3, 1900, at 5 o'clock 
p. m.  Mr. Corley was in his seventy-second year at the time of his death, 
having been born October 16, 1828. He had been in poor health for a number of 
months, but was only confined to his bed for a few weeks.  The funeral took 
place from his late residence on the 6th inst. The services were held in the 
Reformed church, New Buena Vista, Rev. Homer S. May officiating, assisted by 
Rev. Stroup, of the Lutheran church. The interment took place in the cemetery
at Sehellsburg. Mr. Corley was born in Juniata township, not far from
Schellsburg. In early life, he moved, with his parents, to West End, where
he kept an inn, when the old Glade pike was a thoroughfare, crowded with 
drovers, passing east and west.  It was at this place, that he spent the
greater part of his life. About twenty-three years ago, he was united in 
marriage to Mrs. Harriet Long, who, with two children, a son, Harry, and a
daughter, Ada, survives him. He is also survived by three brothers, Jacob
and Joseph Corley, of Juniata township; Henry, who resides in the west,
and by Elizabeth, a faithful and devoted sister, who lives at the old home.
As a citizen, he was well known and highly respected. He had a wide circle of 
friends. He was a faithful husband and father, a good brother. He lived his 
allotted three score and ten years, and when disease was working its way in 
him, he was surrounded by friends and loved ones who did ail in their power to 
make him, in his last hours, as comfortable as possible. The friends with whom 
he talked for so many years will miss him greatly, but his stricken family
most of all. To them we tender kind sympathy in their bereavement,
"My times are in thy hand;
Why should I doubt or fear'
My father's hand will never cause
His child a needless tear."

H. S. M.

Bedford Gazette  3/9/1900