OBIT: David H. BENTON, 1918, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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TYRONE
DAVID H. BENTON

  David H. Benton, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William 
Shildt of Blair avenue yesterday morning of heart trouble.  He was a 
son of the late Johnathan and Sarah Benton, and was born March 5, 1837 
at Springfield Furnace, and had been a resident of this place for 40 
years.  He was married first to Susanna Hartle, who died in 1860.  His 
second wife was Susanna Weyandt, who passed away in 1901.  Deceased 
served in the Civil war first in Company A 94th regiment, Pennsylvania 
volunteers and later in Company "B," Veteran reserves and fought 
throughout the entire campaign, in most of the important battles.  He 
belonged to Post No. 172, G.A.R. and the Methodist Episcopal church.  
Funeral services in charge of Rev. A. S. Fasnick of the First Methodist 
Episcopal church of this place will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2.00 
o'clock.  Interment will be made at Birmingham.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Friday Morning, November 15, 1918