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    1. [MDGARRET] Matthews-Warnick
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    3. Charles Matthews Goes Under When Boat Capsize While Companion Reaches Shore Westernport, Oct. 31- Charles Matthews, 11 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Matthews, Maryland Ave., Westernport, was drowned in the Potomac River, opposite old Potomac baseball park this morning about 8 o'clock, when a boat occupied by him and Franklin Warnick, another youth capsized. Warnick swam to the shore and Matthews proceeded to swim up stream toward a boat which Richard Bennett was rowing. This was about 30 feet away and after the Matthews youth proceeded a short distance, he turned back in his excitement and went under. From the point where his boat capsized he could have made either the short or the other boat had he swam straight toward one or the other. The shore was only 25 feet away. Men, occupying three boats, dragged the river and about noon the body was recovered. Besides his parents the youth is survived by one brother, Ernest, and two sisters, Marian and Hazel. He attended Bruce High School. Cumberland Evening Times Oct 31, 1927 Truman Warnick, 70, Cleveland, Ohio, died yesterday afternoon at Allegany Hospital, where he was a patient since April 10. He came here several months ago and had been living with a nephew, Arvel M. Jeffreys, Charles St. Born in Bloomington, he was a son of the late Henry and Mahala (Junkins) Warnick. Mr. Warnick was a retired employee of the Street Railway Company of Cleveland and a former barber. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. Surviving are two brothers, Edward Warnick, Bloomington, and George Warnick, Oakland; two sisters, Ida Duckworth, Firm Rock, and Mrs. Gertrude Jeffreys, Altamont; another nephew, Charles Warnick, Cumberland, and other nieces and nephews. The body was taken to a funeral home in Oakland. Cumberland Evening Times April 19, 1940 Franklin-Mrs. Rachel Alice Warnick, 91, wife of the late George Warnick, died early this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Benjamin Wilt, near here. Mrs. Warnick had been in ill health for three years. A native of Garrett County, she was the daughter of the late Peter and Eille Layton, and resided in this area all her life. She was a member of New Germany Methodist Church, where she had at one time resided for twenty years. Besides Mrs. Wilt, she is survived by four other daughters, Mrs. Fred Pritts, Westernport; Mrs. Lawrence Broadwater and Mrs. Paul Colmer, both of Garrett County, and Mrs. Effie Raley, Grantsville; four sons, Stanley, of Garrett County; Clarence, New Germany; Lester, of Westernport, and Richard, of Akron and 50 grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Cumberland Evening Times June 16, 1950 [Does anyone have the family of this George Warnick?] Print is too broken and blurred to transcribe each word but in essence it is for: Aug. 22, 1857 in the Democratic Alleganian Notice to Creditors was published by Executor Joseph Warnick for the estate of John Warnick, late of Allegany Co., Maryland, deceased.

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