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LATE JACOB WISE
[People’s Press, 10 December 1912]
It is our sad duty this week to chronicle the death of a former well-known resident of Bertie in the person of the late Jacob Wise, who departed this life in the Buffalo General hospital on Saturday evening at 6.15 o’clock from typhoid pneumonia, in the 63rd year of his age, having been born in Stevensville in 1850.
About 1st of November last, he moved from Welland to Buffalo, where he had purchased a business, and was just getting settled when about two weeks ago he took to his bed, from which he was removed to the hospital a week ago Monday.
Deceased owned the Bertie House for 17 years when he sold out and moved to Ridgeway where he resided when his second wife pre-deceased him. After which he moved to Welland where he engaged in the grocery and aerated waters businesses, prior to going to Buffalo.
Surviving are his widow, 5 daughters and 3 sons, namely, Mrs. Robt. Blackmur, Mrs. Geo. Ketteringham, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. J. Kottmier, Buffalo; Mrs. P.A. Rice, Ridgeway; William of Welland, Henry of Saskatchewan, Leonard of Snyder.
The remains were brought from Buffalo on Sunday afternoon to the McLeod House (home of Mrs. P.A. Rice) where the funeral services were held on Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock, by Rev. Dr. Thos. Snyder of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Rev. H. Beutler, Sherkston, assisted by the Lutheran choir of Sherkston.
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