OBIT: Alden Sumner CALDERWOOD, 1882, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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  Alden Sumner Calderwood. - Died at the residence of his father, Dr. 
A. P. Calderwood, on Allegheny street, Monday afternoon, December 18, 
at three o'clock, of neuralgia of the heart, aged 20 years, 1 month and 
19 days.  His remains will be taken to the M. E. church this (Thursday) 
morning, where the funeral services will he conducted by Rev. Dr. J. S. 
McMurray, after which interment will take place in the cemetery on the 
hill. 
  The deceased had been engaged in handling freight at the warehouse 
for a couple of years, where he had attended his duties faithfully.  
During the cold weather, the latter part of week before last, frequent 
sudden exposures to the cold blasts outside the wareroom brought on a 
severe cold, aggravated by a bilious derangement of the system, which 
resulted in an illness completely prostrating him on Saturday of that 
week.  He seemed to have cold all through his body, being so sore in 
every muscle and internally, that it was impossible to remove his 
clothing without causing him undue suffering, for several days.  Toward 
the latter part of last week, he rallied and on Thursday expressed the 
sanguine hope that he would be able to walk to the depot and back; the 
following day he became more depressed and had occasional sharp pains 
in his muscles or chest that boded no good. He had intermittent attacks 
up to the time of his death, causing wavering emotions of hope and 
despair in those to whom he was near and dear.  Monday noon he came to 
the table and ate dinner with the family.  All forenoon his buoyant 
spirit was more than usually jovial, but before the middle of the 
afternoon he began to get worse and declined so rapidly that at 3 
o'clock he was dead.  He was conscious of his near dissolution and 
spoke calmly and resignedly of the future to which he was hastening.  
In the midst of his extreme suffering he called the family around him 
and bade them a most affectionate good-bye.
  He leaves an aged father, an affectionate mother, an older brother, 
Judson - clerk in the freight depot - and an invalid sister to mourn 
his early death.  He was a kind, affable young man...[unreadable].

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., December 21, 1882