OBIT: John HASLETT, 1900, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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JOHN HASLETT,

A veteran Union soldier and respected resident of this city, died at a
quarter past five this morning at the residence of his son, Samuel P.
Haslett, 2123 Seventh avenue.  Mr. Haslett had been suffering for some
time with a complication of diseases incident to his advanced age, he
being 70 years and 4 months old when he died.  He was born in Adams
county, Pa., and lived there until the Civil war broke out, when he
joined the ranks of the federals as a private soldier, serving nine
months in company A, Sixty-first regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Shortly after the close of the war, Mr. Haslett and his family came to
this city and here he had resided, for the pasty thirty-two years.  His
wife died nine years ago, at which time Mr. Haslett retired from his
position in the local P.R.R. depot.  He is survived by four children:
Mrs. David Douglas, Mrs. George Wisinger, Mrs. C. I. Yon, and Mr.
Samuel P. Haslett, all of this city.  Mr. Haslett belonged to the Union
avenue branch of the Church of God until its disbandment, after which
he expressed an inclination toward the Methodist church.  Funeral
services will be held at the house at 2 o'clock p.m. Sunday by Revs.
Anderson and Roth, interment following in Carson Valley cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Friday, October 12, 1900