Kate's Notes: The original material was difficult to read so I have placed any portions in doubt within brackets. Corrections are welcome.

From The Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
May 19, 1934

ROBERT K. MAJOR 
EXPIRES TODAY;
ILL SHORT TIME
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Was Native of and 
Always Resided in 
Near Here.
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WAS ELDER IN
LOCAL CHURCH
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   Robert King Major, prominent Straban township farmer and elder of the Presbyterian church for many years, died at his home along the Harrisburg road, two miles north of here, at 10 o’clock this morning. He was 78 years old.
   Mr. Major had been ill for some time, and was confined to bed for the past eight weeks.
   Born in Straban township, only a short distance from his present home, Mr. Major was the son of the late John and Martha Jane (McIlhenny) Major.
   Before his marriage, Mr. Major taught school in Straban township for 11 years.
   On December 7, 1898, Mr. Major was married to the former Miss Sara Gilliland, also of Straban township, who survives, together with two daughters, Mrs. Lyman Hammond, of Caledonia, New York, and Miss Margaret M. Major, a teacher in the public schools at Ardmore; three grandchildren, and one sister, Miss Annie H. Major, 120 Carlisle street.
   Mr. Major was a life-long and active member of the Gettysburg Presbyterian church. He was elected an elder in May, 1921, and never missed assisting at a communion service in the past [10] years, with the exception of the last service when illness prevented his attendance.
   Funeral services Tuesday morning at 11’o’clock from the Major home, the Rev. Frederick [B.] Crane, pastor of the Gettysburg Presbyterian church, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Edward [..] Jones, of State College, former pastor of the local Presbyterian church. Interment in Evergreen cemetery.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010