Clarion County PA Obituaries and Death Notices

Children of James J. Aaron

Daily Gazette and Bulletin (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) October 8, 1874

Ravages of the Scarlet Fever

During the month of September, and in the period of ten days, six children of James J. Aaron, of Limestone township, Clarion county, died of scarlet fever, ranging in age from two years to twenty-four.

Indiana Weekly Messenger (Indiana, Pennsylvania)
January 29 1890

Hon. Reynold Laughlin, an old and prominent member of the Clarion county bar, died at his home at Callensburg on Wednesday of last week, from a stroke of paralysis, aged 83 years. The deceased represented the county a couple of terms in the State Legislature, and during the rebellion served with honor and distinction as a Captain in the 103d Pa Vol. He has been a life long member of the Presbyterian church and died in that faith. He was a brother of the late James W. Laughlin, of this county, and the last remaining member of that family. He was born near Jacksonville and was a tanner by trade and for many years worked in this town. He was last here in 1886.

William Milliken

The Indiana Democrat (Indiana, Pennsylvania)
November 16 1871

Mr. William Milliken of Porter township, Clarion county was found dead, on Wednesday morning last. He got up about six o'clock, and took his son's revolver, and went to the barn, as was his usual custom. Sometime after, he was found lying dead between the house and barn, with a bullet hole in his forehead, and the revolver beside him. It is generally supposed he shot himself accidentally, while attempting to shoot a squirrel. His sons having been in the habit of shooting with their revolvers at squirrels, which came into the orchard, and about the corn crib, in the morning. He was a good citizen, in comfortable circumstances, in good health, and living pleasantly with his family and neighbors, and no cuase can be assigned for desring to end his own life. Although it cannot be known with certainty, yet from all the circumstances it seems to have been an accident. He leaves a family and many friends to mourn his sudden and terrible death.

Albert J Servey

Contributed by Kyle M. Condon

Newspaper: Iola Register- Iola, Allen, KS

: A.J. Servey was born in Clarion County, PA August 31, 1841. From there the family moved to Brinkerton, PA when the son was eleven years old. Later they lived in Shannondale and by the time A.J. was seventeen they were living in Venango County, where he worked in the oil fields until the Civil War broke out. He enlisted as a member of the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company I, on July 22, 1861 for a period of three years as a bugler. "The protection surrounding that position, however, was distasteful to him and he threw his bugle away, perferring the greater danger of real fighting. At the end of his three-year period he re-enlisted for the remainder of the war. In 1862 he was promoted to Corporal. In the fall of the same year he became Sergeant and later in the same fall he was made Lieutenant and was transfered to Company G, He refused the change of company and remained with the company which he had been fighting all through the war. The principal battles i which Mr. Servey took Part were the Battle of Middleburg, MO., Antietum, Fredericksberg, the seven days before Richmond, Gettysburg and Cold Harbor. In speaking of the Battle of Antietam, Captain Servey was ofter heard to say that if there had been any sort of general they could have "licked half the army." In the battle of Gettysburg the company of which he was a member reached there on the first day and Lieutenant Servey was detailed upon Pleasanton's Staff. During the month of August, 1864 Mr. Servey took part in fourteen engagements including that at Rheims Station, besides helping to tear up the Weldon railroad from Petersburg to Beldon, and seventy-five miles of the Boydtown plank road. He was within two miles of Appomatox courthouse at the time of the surrender. He was discharged and mustered out of the service on July 1, 1865, with the rank of Lieutenant in command of his company.

As soon as he was free to do so he returned to his old home in Pennsylvania, where on November 4, 1865,he was married to Sarah Adeline Weikal. To them eight children were born six boys and two girls.Two of the boys Alender and Ralph were killed in a cyclone that swept the country west of Iola, KS in the summer of 1884. Others who survive are: Mrs. C.L. Barnhart, of Independence, Oregon, who cannot be here for the funeral; L.W. Servey, Ocheieta, Okla, A.B. Servey of Minneapolis, Minn, Mrs. B.L. McNeil, Frank M. Servey, and Dan J. Servey, all of Iola, The mother of the family died here on December 5, 1907. In August , 1909, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Lilly Munger, who survives her. Mr. & Mrs. Servey came to Kansas from Pennsylvania in April of 1868. The entire trip from Pittsburg, PA to Kansas City, then called Westport Landing, was made by water, and required nineteen days to complete. From Kansas City they drove overland to Lawrence and then to Humboldt, where they located on a homestead three miles west and one and a quarter south of Iola. They remained there for three years when the grasshopper invasion of Kansas, from 1872-1875, when they moved to Iola, which has ever since been the family home.

1st Wife: Sarah Adeline Weikel Servey

2nd Wife:Lilly Munger

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