OBIT: Charles W. CURRY, 1902, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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CHARLES W. CURRY

Charles W. Curry, a well known resident of Altoona and a veteran of the Civil 
War, died yesterday at 12.10 p.m. at his home, 414 Fourth Avenue, after an 
illness of thirteen weeks of a complication of diseases.  Mr. Curry was born in 
Woodbury, Bedford county, March 27, 1834.  For a number of years he resided in 
Frankstown and was a resident of Altoona nineteen years.  For many years he was 
employed in the erecting shop of the Pennsylvania Railroad company.  During the 
civil war Mr. Curry served his country as a soldier, enlisting at the first call 
of President Lincoln for troops, in Company H. Third Regiment Pennsylvania 
volunteers.  At the expiration of the three months he re-enlisted in Company C, 
eighty-fourth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, serving until severely wounded 
in the battle of Winchester, March 23, 1862.  He was shot through the shoulder 
and after a long term of confinement in a hospital he was honorably discharged.  
He was married in 1864 to Nancy J. Kelchner, who, with the following children 
survive:  Frank, William and Mrs. J. F. Bartholomew of Milwaukee:  John, Ross, 
Annie and Mrs. H. A. Flenner at home, and Robert C., of Vancouver, Wash., who 
was a soldier in the Phillipines, returning home last summer  and leaving for 
the northwest in January.  The deceased is also survived by one brother, 
Constantine, of this city, and three sisters, Mrs. R.T. Hunter of this city:  
Mrs. J. T. Fitzharris of Lorain, O., and Mrs. Mary Dunn, of Tacoma, Wash.  He 
was a member of the Union Veteran legion and of St. Mark's Catholic church.  
Funeral services will be held in St. Mark's church Wednesday morning at 9 
o'clock and interment will be made in Calvary Cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, 30 June 1902

[The reference to his wife's name as Kelchner was a newspaper error.  Her actual 
name was Kleckner.]