IRVIN W. ASPER
William J. Asper, of York Springs, received a telegram
on Monday afternoon announcing the death of his eldest son, Irvin W.
Asper, of Chelan, Washington. He was aged about 31 years.
He went west with D.A. Gardner nine years ago and after
the close of the wheat harvest sought employment in a lumber camp.
Later he was employed at various kinds of labor. About three years
ago he took out homestead papers on a tract of land near Chelan and
has been raising wheat.
The body will be shipped east and the time of funeral
will be announced later.
He was unmarried and a member of the Advance Church.
Adams County News, Gettysburg Pennsylvania
September 18, 1915
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Mrs. A.L. Coleman, of Malaga, Washington, died May 8, aged about 50
years. She was a daughter of the late William and Jane Richards and
was born on the farm where the John Morris family now reside, in
Covington. About 24 years ago, with her sister, Hannah, she went to
Washington and after teaching two years was married to A.L. Coleman.
Besides her husband and four children she is survived by her sister,
Hannah, wife of David Frazier, of Waterville, and a brother, David
Richards, of Seattle, Washington, and three brother, A.J., C.E. and
John Richards, of Covington, and three sisters, Miss Katherine
Richards, of Blossburg; Mrs. Mary Clemons, of Covington, and Mrs.
John Weller, of Irvona, Pa. The Wellsboro Agitator,
Wellsboro Pennsylvania May 16, 1923
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WELL KNOWN WELLINGTON GIRL DIES IN WEST
Word was received here yesterday of the death of
Margaret Anna Holcomb Ellison, which occurred in Wenatchee,
Washington.
Mrs. Ellison was the daughter of James and Margaret
Bradner Holcomb. During her early school years she attended the
Wellington school, at which time she made life long friends here
with whom she often visited later in life.
She graduated from the Medina High School in 1914 and
from Oberlin College in 1918.
She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Evelyn
Anna, her mother, a sister, Mrs. Rudolph Polley of Santa Barbara,
California and a host of friends.
The Chronicle Telegram, Elyria Ohio April 6, 1931
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