OBIT: John B. MURRAY, 1929, formerly of Somerset County, PA
  
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  JOHN B. MURRAY
  
    John B. Murray, a former resident of Confluence, well known all over the 
  adjoining sections of Somerset and Fayette counties, died in the Odd Fellows 
  Home in Grove City on Friday, December 27.  He was aged 73 years, 11 months and 
  23 days, having been born Jan. 4, 1856, at Mill Run, Pa., where he lived until 
  1889 when he married Jennie Dull of New Centerville.  After their marriage, they 
  lived in Vanderbilt for several years.  He afterwards conducted a hotel at 
  Ohiopyle and later moved to Confluence and conducted the Park Hotel.  After 
  leaving the Park Hotel he lived with his son, Edwin Murray, until he entered the 
  Odd Fellows' Home.  He is survived by his wife and four children, Edwin and 
  Jacob Murray, and Margaret Hyatt, of Confluence, and Mrs. Robert Sliger, of 
  Morgan, Fayette County, Pa.; also by five grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. 
  Alfreda Livingston, of Mill Run.
    The funeral took place at the Odd Fellows Home on Sunday, December 29, at 2 
  p.m.; interment in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery at Grove City.  Mr. and Mrs. Edwin 
  Murray, Jacob Murray and Mrs. Margaret Hyatt of Confluence, attended the 
  funeral.
  
  Meyersdale Republican, January 2, 1930