OBIT: N. W. COLBURN, 1891, formerly of Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.

  A brief dispatch came over the wires yesterday announcing the death 
of Rev. J. W. Colburn, at Lewisburg.  Mr. Colburn was the pastor of the 
Methodist Episcopal church at Williamsburg a few years ago.  He 
afterwards became a resident of this community, and was a member of 
Mount Moriah chapter No. 166, Free and Accepted Masons.  His excellent 
family posses a large circle of warm friends here whose sympathy they 
have for this sad demise of their loved husband and father.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, April 13, 1891

Death of Rev. N. W. Colburn.

  Rev. N. W. Colburn, died at Lewisburg, Saturday last.  The deceased 
was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a brother of Rev. 
R. H. Colburn, of the Fifth avenue church, Altoona.  He leaves a wife 
and several children.  He had been in delicate health since he was 
stationed in Williamsburg, which was in the year 1888.  The funeral 
will take place at 3 o'clock this afternoon from the First Methodist 
Episcopal church, Lewisburg, and the sermon will be preached by Rev. D. 
S. Monroe, D.D., of this city.
  Rev. Colburn's appointments were as follows: Mifflin, 1853; 
Caledonia, 1854; Clinton (three months and New Washington nine months), 
1855; Sunbury, 1856; Bloomsburg, 1857; Bald Eagle, 1858-9; Laporte, 
1860; (this latter appointment was by change of boundary taken into 
East Genesee conference).  He was transferred back and in 1861-2 was 
stationed at Schellsburg; 1864-5, Woodbury; 1865-6, Mifflinburg, 1867-
8, Montoursville; 1869, Mifflinburg; 1870-2, Conyngham; 1873-5, 
Snydertown; 1876-8, Mount Carmel; 1979-81, Newport; 1882, Weatherly; 
1883-4, Stewartstown; 1885-7, Sinnemahoning; 1888, Williamsburg.  He 
took the supernumerary relation in 1889.  Rev. Colburn was born in 
England in the year 1829, and was converted at the age of 18 years, and 
was admitted in full connection to the Baltimore conference in 1854.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, April 13, 1891

1880 Newport, Perry County census -
W. [sic] W. Colburn, 50  
Mary E. Colburn, 43  
Mary E. Colburn, 19  
Anna L. Colburn, 17  
Richard L. Colburn, 15  
Jennie B. Colburn, 11  
Willie E. Colburn, 9  
E. L. Johnson, 47  
Mary Beckwith, 65 
 
1850 Karthaus, Clearfield County census -
Richard Colborn, 46  
Elizabeth Colborn, 42  
Nathaniel Colborn, 21, England  
Mary Jane Colborn, 16  
Anna M. Colborn, 14  
James S. Colborn, 12  
Richard Colborn, 10  
Cambridge Colborn, 7  
Emma C. Colborn, 4  
Susannah Colborn, 2