OBIT: Benjamin Blain CALDERWOOD, 1890, Ironsville, Blair County, PA

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TYRONE TOPICS.

  Benjamin Blain Calderwood, the 6-year-8-months-and-8-days-old son of 
Thomas and Jane Calderwood, died at the home of his parents in 
Ironsville on Monday at 3 p.m., of diphtheria.  He was a bright, 
intelligent boy and his demise will be sadly felt by father, mother and 
only sister.  Funeral took place at 3 o'clock p.m., Tuesday, the 14th.  
Interment in Tyrone cemetery.  The funeral service will be had in the 
Ironsville school house on Sunday, October 26, to be conducted by Rev. 
William Brill.  This is on account of the contagious disease, of which 
the boy died.  {Pittsburgh Dispatch copy.)

Morning Tribune, Thursday, October 16, 1890