Norman Montgomery Zahniser, circa 1917

SOURCE: "WWI Veterans Service and Compensation Files, 1917-1919, 1934-1948," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60884 : accessed 9 October 2017), Ada M. Zahniser, mother of Norman M. Zahniser - application no. 123639; citing World War I Veterans Service and Compensation File, 1934–1948 (RG 19, Series 19.91), Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Norman Montgomery Zahniser, circa 1917

SOURCE: Photograph of Norman M. Zahniser [1894-1918] - son of William S. Zahniser & Ada M. Alexander. Caption reads, "Norman M. Zahniser, Private, first class." Photo from: Memorial Services and Dedication of Tablet, Company K, 110th (10th Pa.) Infantry, Waynesburg, Pa., Sunday, May 30, 1920 (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania: Sutton's Printing Office, 1920), page 5.

Newspaper questionnaire submitted by the Zahniser family.

 SOURCE: "WWI Veterans Service and Compensation Files, 1917-1919, 1934-1948," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=60884 : accessed 9 October 2017), Ada M. Zahniser, mother of Norman M. Zahniser - application no. 123639; citing World War I Veterans Service and Compensation File, 1934–1948 (RG 19, Series 19.91), Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Norman’s father was one of the Zahniser Brothers behind the machine shop business, which was located on South Washington Street. Their house may be the one pictured here beside the shop. Both are now gone.  

SOURCE: Fred High, Waynesburg Prosperous & Beautiful (1906; reprint, Parsons, West Virginia: McClain Printing Company, 1973), 130.