Joseph Plummer
Joseph Plummer, son of Mrs. Thomas Plummer, of Summerhill, died at the McKeesport Hospital at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, of typhoid-pneumonia. He had been sick for five weeks and was slowly recovering when he took a relapse.
Joseph Plummer was born at Summerhill twenty-seven years ago and was a son of Thomas Plummer, deceased. He was a brother of William Plummer, of McKees Rocks; Dees and Earl, at home; Mrs. Lizzie Feight, of Conemaugh; Mrs. Peter Yahner, of Summerhill, and Misses Leanore and Bridget, at home.
The deceased was a fireman on a freight engine on the Allegheny Valley in McKeesport. He started at railroading in 1898 and boarded for a while in Allegheny after leaving Summerhill.
The remains were taken from McKeesport to Summerhill on train No. 34 this afternoon, and the funeral will take place at 9 o’clock to-morrow morning from St. Bartholomew’s Catholic Church at Wilmore, where the Rev. Father Ryan will conduct a mass of requiem. Interment will be made in the church cemetery.
The young man was a member of the Ehrenfeld Catholic Church. |
