OBIT: John FOX, 1891, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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JOHN FOX.

  At half-past 1 o'clock Saturday morning John Fox, an aged resident, 
died at the residence of his son, Reuben S. Fox, No. 810 First avenue.  
A complication of diseases was the cause of death, and for the past six 
years he had been in failing health.  Born in Petersburg, Huntingdon 
county, September 24, 1822, he was married in the year 1850 to Miss 
Catharine Stratiff, of Tyrone.  To them nine children were born, and of 
this number four are yet living.  These are Mrs. Annie Lowe, of Spruce 
Creek; Mrs. Alice Moore, Reuben S. and George M. Fox, of Altoona.  By 
occupation the deceased was a blacksmith.  He worked at his trade in 
Tyrone and also in this city, having been an employe of the railroad 
company here for some eighteen years, a workman in the lower shops.  He 
was a member of the First Lutheran church and also of the Order of 
Chosen Friends.  On mail train to-day the body will be taken to Tyrone 
for interment.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, February 2, 1891