Harrison Clyde Rupert (1888 - 1930)

Born 4 Aug 1888 in Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 9 Jan 1930 at age 41 in Huntingdon Borough, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Harrison C Rupert was born in Pennsylvania to George Washington Rupert and Anna Davis.^[1][2] According to his death certificate, he was born on 4 August 1889.^[2]

His occupation was : "merchant tailor"^[1]

He died on 9 January 1930, at his home, in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. He had been ill for two months, because of an infected hand. He died of streptococcal septicemia, with acute myocarditis contributing. He was buried on 12 January, in the Goodman Cemetery, Ardenheim, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. ^{[1] [2]}

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} 'Harrison C. Rupert Dies', Altoona Mirror, Saturday 11 January 1930, p.20, col.5; image copy, Newspapers (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6314054/harrison-cloyd-rupert-obit/ : accessed 6 August 2022.

   'HARRISON C. RUPERT DIES.

   'HUNTINGDON, Jan. 11.—Harrison Cloyd Rupert, aged 40, died at his home, 517 Washington street, Thursday afternoon at 1.55 o'clock, after an illness of two months from an infected hand. He was the son of George W. (deceased) and Annie (Davis) Rupert and had been a merchant tailor in Huntingdon for a number of years. He was a member of the Church of the Brethren. Besides his mother, he is survived by three brothers and one sister, Carey, Oscar and Maude Rusister, Carey and Oscar Rupert and Mrs. Harvey Cumming, all of Altoona, and Edgar Rupert of Huntingdon. He was never married. The body may be viewed at the Brown mortuary, where services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, by Rev. F. B. Statler of the Church of the Brethren. Burial will be made in the Goodman cemetery.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Bureau of Vital Statistics, Pennsylvania, death certificate, file no. 6802 (9 January 1930), H. Cloyd [em] Rupert; image copy, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/5164/images/42342_2421406260_0649-00320 : accessed 6 August 2022).

   H. Cloyd [sic] Rupert

   residence 517 1/2 Washington

   male, white, single, tailor

   born 4 August 1889, [birthplace is blank], to Geo Rupert (born Huntingdon County, Pa), and Anna Davis (born Markleslong Pa)

   informant Mrs Geo Rupert (Huntingdon Pa)

   died 9 Jan 1930, Huntingdon Borough, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania of septicemia (streptococcic) (confirmed by laboratory tests), with acute myocarditis contributing

   operation preceded death: 'several incisions at various [?] times for abscesses'

   buried 12 January 1930, Goodman Cemetery

   undertaker Harry Brown Dow, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

• "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3SY-LS5 : 13 January 2022), Cloyd Rupert in entry for George Rupert, 1900.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGQB-1BR : accessed 24 July 2022), Cloyd Rupert in household of George Rupert, Huntingdon Ward 4, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 69, sheet 17B, family 327, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1349; FHL microfilm 1,375,362.

• "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:9MVF-KSVX : 26 December 2021), Entry for Harrison Cloyd Rupert, 1917-1918.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78624368/harrison-cloyd-rupert: accessed 24 July 2022), memorial page for Harrison Cloyd Rupert (4 Aug 1888–9 Jan 1930), Find a Grave Memorial ID 78624368, citing Goodman Cemetery, Ardenheim, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Cheryl (contributor 47391230).