OBIT: W. H. H. "Harry" BURLEY, 1900, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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VICTIM OF CONSUMPTION.

Harry Burley Died at His Home in Altoona Sunday Evening.

  W. H. H. Burley died at his home in Altoona at 7.15 o'clock last evening 
from consumption.  Harry Burley, as he was commonly known, was born at Smokers 
Forge, near Williamsburg, April 27, 1837.  He was the son of William and 
Elizabeth Burley.  When the subject of this article was quite young the family 
came to Tyrone.  His father, who was one of Tyrone's first justices of the 
peace, died here a few years after the civil war, and his mother died here 
also in June, 1893, a sister, Mrs. Anna Loudon, having died in September of 
the year before.
  Harry Burley grew to manhood here when the town was quite small.  He 
enlisted and served three years in the 110th regiment in the civil war, 
spending a season in one of the southern military prisons during that service.  
A brother, Frank Burley, who was also a soldier in the 110th regiment, was 
shot through the lungs at the battle of Gettysburg and died from the wound.  
After the war Harry Burley returned to Tyrone, but a few years later went to 
Altoona, where he had since lived, being employed in the passenger car 
finishing department, of which his brother, John L. Burley, is foreman.  He is 
survived by one son, William C., and one daughter, Lottie.  One sister and two 
brothers survive, viz.: Mrs. Lucinda Adair, of Tyrone; John L. Burley, of 
Altoona, and Winfield S. Burley, of Philadelphia.
  The funeral will be held at 8.30 o'clock tomorrow morning.  Interment in St. 
John's cemetery, Altoona.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Monday, February 12, 1900