Carbon County PA Obituaries, Death Notices and Death Records
Sadie Hartranft
Submitted by Jean Grant
Jonah Markley
Newspaper: Mauck Chunk Daily Times, Feb 2, 1886
Submitted by a Friend of Free Genealogy
Obit: The subject of this brief sketch was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in or about the year 1802, of humble, but very respectable parentage. When but a lad of thirteen years he engaged himself at Philadelphia, with Dr. Thomas, a well known physician of his day, who resided and did a flourishing business near Third and Callowhill Sts. After serving faithfully with his employer for a number of years he came to Carbon county and lived for some time near Lehigh Gap, where he learned the weavers trade, with a man named Peter Brown. He soon after married and settled down in Franklin township, Carbon county, where he engaged in farming and resided there at the time of his death. He was a brother-in-law of Dr. Humphrey, of Cherryville, a well known physician of Northampton County,who during the late war was United States Examining surgeon and occupied an office at Easton at the time of the draft. Mr. Markley was one of the first constables elected in Carbon county shortly after its organization, and this brought him into the notice at the Courts of our county at an early day. After the retiring of William Holly, court crier, of Mauch Chunk, many years ago, Mr. Markley was appointed in his stead and since that time through rain and shine, and winter and summer, Mr. Markley was always in his accustomed place and with that manner so peculiarly his own, opened and closed the Sessions of the Court, and calling out for good order and quiteness during its continuance. He was good natured and kind hearted to a fault, ever polite, simple mannered and always obliging. His parting prayer "God Save the Commonwealth and the Honorable Court" with his pleasant face and quaint old fashioned form will be remembered as long as this county endures. He leaves a wife, a daughter of Geroge Walck, who with four sons, Stephen, Thomas, Tilghman, and Benjamin; and two daughters, Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Dreisbach to mourn his loss. He seemed to be in the best of health and spirits at the closing of our Court, January 23rd, 1886. He died suddenly on Monday morning, about 9 o'clock at his home in FranklinTownship of heart disease. The funeral will take place on Friday at 9:20 a.m., burial from the Big Creek church.
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