OBIT: George GUTSHALL, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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DEATH OF GEORGE GUTSHALL
He Was a Soldier in the War of the Rebellion.

  At the home of Mrs. Sue Rhodes, where he boarded, yesterday morning 
at 4.45 o'clock, George Gutshall died of chronic diarrhea?, after an 
illness of more than a year.  He was born in Shippensburg in March 
1841, and has resided in Altoona most of the time for the last 20 
years.  During the war of the rebellion he served for one year as a 
private of Company G, Two Hundred and Second Pennsylvania Volunteers.  
He was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company as a sweeper for 
five years, and was engaged in various other occupations.  In 1896 he 
went to the Dayton Soldiers' home, but after being in the home for five 
months he came to Altoona again and never afterwards left the city.
  The deceased is survived by one son, William, of Shippensburg, and 
three brothers, James and William of Altoona, and Daniel of 
Shippensburg.  Mr. Gutshall was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran church, 
Millville.
  The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.  
Services will be conducted at the house by Rev. E. J. Metzler and the 
burial will be in Fairview cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, July 20, 1899