The Elk County Gazette,
Thursday, July 20, 1905

 

WILLIAM SILFIES FOUND DEAD

William James Silfies, a jobber in the lumber woods, whose home is in Glen Hazel, was found dead in the woods near Montmorenci this morning. We understand Mr. Silfies started from his home in Glenn Hazel to walk over the hills to Montmorenci, where he had a brother-in-law, Adam Day, living, and where he was to look at a farm with a view to buying. Search was not made for him until this morning, his relatives thinking he had gone somewhere else after finishing his errand at Montmorenci. A searching party found the body of the unfortunate man this morning and the surroundings were such as to convince them that he had taken shelter under a tree during the storm, and was struck and killed by lightning. The deceased leaves a wife and several small children. He was probably forty years of age and a brother of J. F. Silfies, the Glen Hazel merchant.

Submitted by Mary Silfies Mills

 

 

 

No. 321 John William Silfies,
b. June 21, 1826, d. January 5, 1910,
Son of Henry and Susannah Correll Silfies, No. 60