SHOWALTER, BRENNEN, KELLY, MCGRADY Samuel France SHOWALTER, age 69, oil operator, died at this home in Painseville, Ohio, Monday night. Mr. SHOWALTER was among the pioneers in the development of the Butler County oil fields. In his young manhood Mr. SHOWALTER taught school, but when the Civil War broke out went into the commissary department of the army. He was not an enlisted man, but took up arms when Washington was threatened and was captured and held a prisoner in a Confederate prison camp for months. After the war he joined his three brothers in the oil business. Some 18 years ago Mr. SHOWALTER moved from Chicora, Pa., to Pittsburgh. Subsequently he became interested in the McDonald field, but sold out his interests a few years ago and bought a suburban home in Painesville. His most recent operations were around Painesville, where he did some drilling and found traces of oil. Mr. SHOWALTER was a lifelong Methodist. His widow and seven children survive. Mrs. George E. CABLE, wife of ! the M. E. minister of McDonald, is a sister. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. KELLY were called to Butler Thursday by the death of the latter's brother-in-law, J. E. BRENNEN. Only last week Mr. KELLY buried his father, A. KELLY, of Washington, Pa. Charles Patrick MCGRADY, 2 months old, died at the family home Thursday after a very short illness. Funeral services were held Saturday morning at St. Patrick's Church, the Rev. Father D. J. COX officiating. Interment in St. Patrick's cemetery. (From another article, the parents are Mr. and Mrs. T. MCGRADY) *Noblestown column