OBIT: Alexander ASKINS, 1875, Bennington Furnace, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by MS Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ ASKINS - Alexander Askins, of Bennington Furnace, this county, after performing his usual day's work, and eating a hearty supper, sat down on his porch, on Thursday last, when he was seized with hemmorrhage of the lungs and died at 8 o'clock. The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., September 1, 1875 1870 Allegheny Township, Blair County census - Alexander Askin, 42, coal miner, b. Scotland Rachel Askin, 43 Alice Askin, 3