OBIT: Thomas HALL, 1887, Blair County, PA

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His Injuries Proved Fatal.

About 2 o'clock Thursday morning Thomas Hall, the gentleman who was,
on Wednesday, caught between a car and a coal shed and had his breast
bone crushed thereby, died at the Altoona hospital, whither he had
been taken immediately after the accident.  He leaves a wife, one son,
a young man, and two daughters, and on the 2 o'clock train in the
afternoon his remains were taken to his late home at Spruce Creek.
Mr. Hall was a man who had a number of friends in Altoona, and he is
spoken of very highly.  He was a member of post 44, Grand Army of the
Republic at Huntingdon.  He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and at his request Rev. J. B. Shaver, pastor of the First
church, was sent for and administered to him.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, January 20, 1887, page 3