Wellsville Daily Reporter
May 22, 1926
Lafayette Starkweather
Lafayette Starkweather died at his home in Alma at 8:45 o’clock
Friday night, May 21, 1926. He was born in Mexico, New York, April 29, 1817. He has lived in Port Allegany, Pa., Austin, Pa., and Olean, New York, coming to Alma six years ago. He was a real estate dealer.
He was married to Harriett Moot who died September 30, 1911. In
1917 he married Mrs. Jennie M. Riley who survives. He is also survived by one daughter and one son, Mrs. Rhoda Webb and Chester Starkweather, both of Los Angeles, California, and one sister, Mrs. Rhoda Manning, also of Los Angeles.
Mr. Starkweather was a veteran of the Civil War. He was enrolled
December 1, 1864 as a private of Captain Fenton G. Marx (sp?) Company D 93rd regiment of Pennsylvania, Veteran Infantry Volunteers. He served one year and was honorably discharged June 7, 1865 in Defiance Washington, D.C.
He was a member of the Immaculate Conception church of Wellsville.
The funeral will be held from Immaculate Conception church, Monday morning at
ten o’clock. Mnsg. O’Brien officiating. Interment in Sacred Heart cemetery.
NOTE: Mr. Starkweather is buried in an unmarked grave in Sacred
Heart Cemetery in Wellsville NY.
Allegany County Reporter
Oct 13, 1911
Mrs. Harriett (Moot) Starkweather
– A Victim of the Austin Flood is Buried at Angelica
Angelica, Oct 12 – The remains of Mrs. Lafe Starkweather, one of the victims of
the Austin, Pa. flood, were brought here for burial Monday. Mrs. Starkweather’s home was formerly in Angelica. The out of town relatives and friends who were here to attend the funeral were: Joe Winchip and family, of Fillmore, NY; Frank Smalley and family of
Friendship, NY; Charles Moot and family of Black Creek, NY A.H. Moot and family of Friendship, N.Y; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Duncan and Wells Moot of Buffalo, NY; Harrison Rutherford and daughter of Belfast, NY; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Moot of Webster’s Crossing NY; Mrs. Ann Moot and children of
Allen NY and Lafe Starkweather, of Austin. Pa.
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