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Subject: [PAGREENE-L] Deaths, Marr., Misc. Articles, June, 1904 (pt 1/2)
Deaths, Marriages and Misc. News Articles from the pages of the Waynesburg Republican, June, 1904.
REV. A. J. SWAIN
Rev. A. J. Swain, a venerable minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and the oldest member of the Pensylvania synod, died at his home near Jacksonville, this county, Saturday evening, May 28, aged 89 years. Mr Swain had been in active service within the bounds of the Pennsylvania synod since he first engaged in the ministry, and was held in the highest esteem by the members of the congregations he had served as pastor as well as by fellow ministers. He had been a pastor in the following congregations of the C. P. church: Brownsville, Bethel, Old Concord, Rock Lick, Fairview, Uniontown and Jacksonville. In early life, Mr. Swain was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Winder, whose death occurred upwards of twenty years ago and a few years later he married Mrs. Mary Ellen Ackley, who with one son, by the first marriage, W. C. Swain, of Washington, Pa., survives. The funeral services were held at his late residence Tuesday morning and interment was made in the Prosperity cemetery.
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