MR. LEPLEY CRITICALLY ILL.

The Daily Telegram., February 06, 1905
The Clarksburg Telegram., February 10, 1905

Josiah Lepley, one of Clarksburg’s oldest citizens, is dangerously ill at his home in Point Comfort with dropsy and is not expected to recover. Joe Lepley, the well known printer at Fairmont, and son of the sick man, has been called to his bedside.

FINAL CALL ANSWERED

BY JOSIAH LEPLEY, AGED AND WELL KNOWN CITIZEN
— FUNERAL MONDAY MORNING
The Clarksburg Telegram., April 14, 1905

The funeral of Josiah Lepley took place from the late home in Point Comfort Monday morning at ten o’clock, and the interment occurred in the I. O. O. F. cemetery.

Mr. Lepley died Saturday afternoon at five o’clock after a lingering illness with dropsy.

His age was seventy-six years.

For many years he was in the carpentering business in this city, but of late years he had been unable to attend to his work on account of the illness which resulted in his death.

Mr. Lepley was a Civil War veteran having served on the Union side in that great rebellion.

Surviving him are his wife and four children, the latter being Mrs. Edna Hood, of Weston; Miss Lillie Lepley, Joseph Lepley, of this city, and Albert Lepley, of Fairmont.

The deceased was a good man an excellent citizen and a kind and dutiful husband and father.

A large circle of friends sympathize with the bereaved ones in their loss.

Mr. Lepley was born in Southampton, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, August 1, 1831.

He taught school in early life, went to California via Panama in 1852 and remained there for seven years.

During the Civil War he was a lieutenant in Company F. 142 Pennsylvania Infantry, participating in the battles of Second Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and all engagements of the Army of the Potomac.

In 1874 he came to West Virginia and since 1876 he has resided in Clarksburg.