Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, July 22, 1910 Volume 44, Number 28 Dies at His Home in Gallitzin Boro Aged Michael Bracken Had Been Lingering for Weeks A Foremost Cambrian Michael Bracken, one of the best known residents of Cambria County and of whose lingering illness mention has been made from time to time in these columns, died at his home Saturday morning, aged 79 years. For some days it became apparent that he could not recover and that it was only a matter of a short time when the end would come. All of his children were at his bedside when he passed away. There was no better known resident of Cambria nor more highly respected than Mr. Bracken. He was born in Johnstown March 31, 1831, being a son of Michael Bracken who was born in Kings County, Ireland, in 1790 and who located in Johnstown in 1835. Eight years after the birth of the subject of this notice the Bracken family located on a farm near Mineral Point where the elder Michael Bracken died in 1863. After laying rails on the old Portage railroad for three years, Michael Bracken located in Gallitzin, carrying on the lumber business there and in Allegheny Township and for ten years he conducted a general store in Gallitzin. He was one of the men most active in the formation of the Gallitzin Water Company, for 12 years was a borough councilman of Gallitzin and for 13 more years was a school director. Mr. Bracken was one of eleven children and was the last of this number to pass away. He was twice married, both wives having preceded him to the grave. The surviving children are: Attorney Francis B. Bracken of Philadelphia; J. Hayden and Paul of Johnstown; John P. of Carnegie and William C. and Michael J. of Gallitzin. Funeral was held Wednesday from St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, where a high mass of requiem was said by the Rev. J. J. Deasy, the rector of the parish, the services being largely attended. The music was furnished by the church’s male chorus. The remains were laid to rest in the church cemetery. Messrs. Michael Brannan, Frank Burns, Felix Speck, Frank Crownauer, F. J. Christ and Joseph Bradley were the pallbearers. Among the relatives and friends in attendance here from abroad were Mr. and Mrs. J. Hayden Bracken and daughter; Miss Louise Bracken; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bracken and son; Attorney and Mrs. Edward T. McNeelis and daughter, Miss Claire McNeelis; Judge O’Connor; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Egan and daughter; Mrs. William E. Foster; J. Bert Denny and daughter; Frank and Harry Conrad; John H. Cooney; James A. Smith and Charles A. Byers, all of Johnstown; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Boyle, Miss Jennie B. Egan and Mrs. Martha B. Egan of Oil City; Mrs. Harry Davis, Miss Katherine Hughes, Patrick Masterson and Peter Risbin of Altoona; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cassidy, Misses Ella, Jennie and Henrietta Cooney, Mrs. Samuel Watt and daughter; and Thomas McCabe and daughter and Harry Cooney of Conemaugh; W. A. McGuire, Esq. of Ebensburg and others. Bakerton Resident Dead Septicemia and Erysipelas are Fatal to Prominent German of Town Bakerton, July 19 A scratch on his hand, aggravated by poison weeds on his farm, was responsible it is said, for the death of Anthony Finkenfelter, aged 55 years, who died here Monday afternoon. His illness was of short duration, septicemia and erysipelas causing his death. The funeral services were held Wednesday morning in the Catholic Church here, burial being made at Carrolltown. The deceased is survived by his wife, a brother, John, and a sister, Tillie, living here and a sister, Mrs. Thomas Frick at Carrolltown. The parents of the deceased came to America from Germany in 1854 and he was born about six weeks after their arrival. He spent his whole life on his farm near here. Charles McKenney Another death has occurred among the South Fork residents, who have been stricken with typhoid fever during the past few weeks, the second death occurring Wednesday morning at the Memorial Hospital when Charles McKenney passed away. He had been a patient at the hospital since July 3. Death at Almshouse Daniel Daugherty, aged fifty-nine years, admitted to the Cambria County Almshouse November 9, 1909 from Cassandra, died in that institution at 11:45 o’clock Sunday morning from heart trouble and dropsy. The body was interred Tuesday evening in the Almshouse cemetery. There are no known relatives surviving. Child Drowns in Creek Harry Christoph Carl, a 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilke, whose home is near Elton, was drowned Tuesday afternoon when he fell into a creek from a small bridge on a private lane on the Wilke farm. It was early in the afternoon that the child was noticed playing about the yard surrounding his home, but when the mother looked for him, he was missing. Without difficulty however the child was traced to the small bridge and in a pool of water just below the bridge, the lifeless body of the little one was found. It is evident that the child, in peering over the end of the bridge, lost his balance and fell into the water, the fall being only a few feet. Four Boys are Burned in Hay Bradford, Pa., July 20 In a burning hay barn four children perished on the farm of John Adams of Rasselas, south of here this afternoon. Several others had narrow escapes. Three of the four victims were sons of Farmer Adams.