OBIT: David GREEN, 1885, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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SUDDEN DEATH.

David Green Dies of Heart Disease on Saturday Morning Last.

  On Saturday last, Mr. David Green, for many years a resident of this 
city, died suddenly at the residence of his brother, William Green,
Fifth avenue, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets.  For
fourteen years past the deceased had been blind and latterly made his
home with his son Frank, No. 1927 Eleventh avenue.  On Saturday he had
been invited to his brother William's to partake of a wild turkey
dinner.  On reaching the house he appeared very much fatigued and
remarked that he could not have gone much further.  Sinking into a
chair immediately after this he expired.  Heart disease was the cause
of death.  The remains of the deceased were afterward taken to the
residence of his son Frank, at the above number.
  Mr. Green was aged 58 years and was born in Bedford county, but 
removed from there in early life.  For many years he was employed on
the old Portage railroad, and when the Pennsylvania was being built he
did police duty at Tunnelhill, Cambria county.  He was afterward
employed in various capacities on the latter road.  Fourteen years on
the 15th of January last the deceased met with an accident and shortly
afterward was stricken with blindness; from the latter affliction he
never recovered.  He leaves a wife and six children to mourn their
loss.  The names of the children are: F. S. Green, Mrs. Jennie B.
Little, Mrs. Annie Lewis, Mrs. Kate Powell, and Misses Tillie and
Nellie, all residing in this city.  Three brothers and four sisters
also survive him. These are: William, of Altoona; Samuel, of Lily's,
Cambria county; Thomas, residing in the state of Indiana; Mrs. William
Crone, Mrs. Susan Zimmerman, Mrs. Nannie Claycomb, and Mrs. Kate
Estep, of Altoona.  Mrs. Catharine Green, the mother of the deceased,
is still living and makes her home with her son William.

Altoona Tribune, November 19, 1885