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Rev Franklin Pierce Saylor

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Rev Franklin Pierce Saylor

Birth
Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
17 Nov 1923 (aged 73)
Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Funeral services for the Rev. Franklin P. Saylor, who died Saturday morning, at the family residence in East Somerset, were held at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. W. Domer, presiding elder of the Pittsburgh conference of the Evangelical church, assistef by the Rev. J. Q. A. Curry, pastor of the Scalp Level charge. Interment was made in the cemetery at Pleasant Hill.

Franklin P. Saylor was a son of Samuel and Caroline Saylor, and he was born 73 years ago on a farm near Roxbury, in Stonycreek township. At the age of 14 he enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers and served until the close of the Civil War. Following his discharge from the army Mr. Saylor prepared for the ministry and quickly rose to prominence in the Evangelical denomination.

He served as pastor of some of the most prominent Evangelical charges in Western Pennsylvania. About twenty years ago Rev. Saylor was elected Prothonotary of Somerset county and served a three-year term. Upon his retirement from office he reentered the ministry, but because of ill-health was never thereafter able to accept a permanent charge.

Rev. Saylor is survived by his widow and the following children: C. W. Saylor, Berlin; Mrs. Morris M. Walker and Mrs. W. W. Cupp, both of Somerset and Harry Saylor, of Listie. Two brothers, ex-Sheriff James B. Saylor, of this place, and Daniel Saylor, of New Centerville, and one sister, Mrs. Emma Rhoads, of Somerset, also survive.

November 21, 1923
Somerset Herald
(contributor- Capt #47510447)
Funeral services for the Rev. Franklin P. Saylor, who died Saturday morning, at the family residence in East Somerset, were held at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. W. Domer, presiding elder of the Pittsburgh conference of the Evangelical church, assistef by the Rev. J. Q. A. Curry, pastor of the Scalp Level charge. Interment was made in the cemetery at Pleasant Hill.

Franklin P. Saylor was a son of Samuel and Caroline Saylor, and he was born 73 years ago on a farm near Roxbury, in Stonycreek township. At the age of 14 he enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers and served until the close of the Civil War. Following his discharge from the army Mr. Saylor prepared for the ministry and quickly rose to prominence in the Evangelical denomination.

He served as pastor of some of the most prominent Evangelical charges in Western Pennsylvania. About twenty years ago Rev. Saylor was elected Prothonotary of Somerset county and served a three-year term. Upon his retirement from office he reentered the ministry, but because of ill-health was never thereafter able to accept a permanent charge.

Rev. Saylor is survived by his widow and the following children: C. W. Saylor, Berlin; Mrs. Morris M. Walker and Mrs. W. W. Cupp, both of Somerset and Harry Saylor, of Listie. Two brothers, ex-Sheriff James B. Saylor, of this place, and Daniel Saylor, of New Centerville, and one sister, Mrs. Emma Rhoads, of Somerset, also survive.

November 21, 1923
Somerset Herald
(contributor- Capt #47510447)

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Headstone shows a death year of 1924 but both death certificate and obituary proves it as 1923.

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