Tribune Democrat Bedford County, Pennsylvania Bedford Gazette, page 1 Bedford County, Pennsylvania.

7 May 1926

Bedford, May 7 - Mrs. Abram Weisel, widow of the late Abram Weisel, a

former Justice of the Peace of Bedford, died at her late residence on East

Penn Street early Monday morning. While her health has been frail for

several months, her condition became critical following the death and

burial of her youngest son, J. Harold Weisel, of Pittsburg, two weeks ago.

Mrs. Weisel was a native of Friends Cove and a member of one of the oldest

Bedford County families. She lived an (unreadable) and useful life in the

home, the church and the community and was held in highesteem by all who

knew her. She is survived by the following children: Theodore, of Summitt;

Lloyd, of Everett; Mrs. Guy Blymer of Pittsburg; Miss Estella, of

Washington, D. C., and Misses Henrietta, Martha, Elizabeth and Elsie, of

Bedford. Funeral services were in charge of her pastor, the Rev. J. Albert

Eyler, of the Reformed Church of which she had been a life-long and

faithful member.

Bedford Gazette, Bedford County, Pennsylvania April 23, 1926, Page 1 (Posted to http://boards.ancestry.com by Connie 13 Jan 2004).

The body of James Harold Weisel, who died at Salem, Ohio, on Saturday,

April 17, was brought on Sunday to the home of his mother, Mrs. Abraham

Weisel, of East Penn Street, where funeral services were conducted on

Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. J. Albert Eyler, pastor of St. John's

Reformed church, Bedford officiating, assisted by Dr. George W. Shelton,

pastor of Second Presbyterian church of Pittsburgh. Interment was made in

the Bedford cemetery.

Necrology

James Harold Weisel, aged 31 years, 2 months and 16 days, was born near

Rainsburg, Bedford County, Pa., February 1, 1895, a son of Abraham and

Minnie K. Weisel, the former of who died five or six years ago. His boyhood

was spent in this county. He attended the Bedford public schools and was a

graduate of the Bedford high school, class of 1911. He was a talented

musician and Bedford was proud to have him as one of its most accomplished

young men. In early manhood he was organist in the St. John's Reformed

church, of which he was a member. He had pursued musical courses in various

schools and his talent in this line was extraordinary. From his native town

he went to Johnstown, Pa., where he was organist in a theatre a few years,

going from that place to Detroit, Mich., in which city he was united in

marriage with Mrs. Lillian Quinn, nee Liebtag, March 28, 1917, and where he

resided until seven or eight years ago, since which time he had been a

resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., and at which place he had been, until the time

of his death, organist and director of the choir in the Second Presbyterian

church. As well as being a music director he was a noted composer of music,

mostly for instrumental and cantata renditions. He completed on

composition, while a patient in the Hospital. His untiring and never

ceasing efforts to progress still further in his musical career overtaxed

his physical condition and superinduced nephritis, from which death

resulted. He had been in ill health for several months and had received

medical treatment from the Central Clinic hospital at Salem, O., and to

which institution he was admitted on Monday, April 12, where he underwent a

surgical operation a few days prior to his death. In the passing of Mr.

Weisel from this world to the Great Beyond, Bedford has lost a talented and

high respected native and former resident. His untimely death has filled

the hearts of his many friends with deep sorrow. The surviving relatives

are his mother, his widow, who with two sons, James Harold, Jr., and Philip

Stover and one daughter, Elizabeth Louise, resides at Pittsburgh, Pa.;

three brothers, William A. of Bedford, Pa.; Lloyd of Everett, Pa., and

Theodore of Summit Hill, Pa.; and six sisters, Miss Estelle Weisel of

Washington D. C., Mary, wife of C. G. Blymer of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Misses

Elizabeth, Henrietta, Martha and Elsie, residing with their mother in Bedford.