OBIT: John FEENEY, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB

Copyright 2008.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/
_________________________________________ 

JOHN FEENEY.

  John Feeney, an aged and respected citizen, died at his home, 1918 
Eleventh avenue, at 7.45 o'clock last evening.  The illness which 
resulted in his death was caused by cholera morbus.  He had been sick 
less than one week.  The deceased was born in Ireland in 1836 and came 
to the United States in 1854.  He was married in Columbia county, N.Y., 
in 1857, and about ten years later removed to Altoona, which has since 
been his home.  He was a boilermaker by trade and had been in the 
employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad company for over thirty years.  His 
wife died in 1869.  The following children survive: Mrs. Elizabeth 
Eichenlaub, Lawrence, Mrs. Ellen Reilly and Mrs. Catharine Savage, all 
of this city, and Charles, of Philadelphia.  The deceased was a member 
of St. John's Catholic church, at which place the services will be 
held, the time for which will be announced later.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, July 27, 1899