OBIT: John HAY, 1878, Gardner's Mills, Logan Township, Blair County, PA

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Transcribed by Judy Banja

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A FATAL SCALDING ACCIDENT.

  John Hay, of Logan township, about seventy years of age, residing at
Gardner's Mills, died some days since.  The old gentleman was sitting
at the supper table, and fell off his chair, knocking over the stove.
A vessel of hot water was standing upon the stove, and it was thrown
over him, scalding him severely.  His wife was not in the room at the
time, and when she presently came in the old gentleman had risen from
the floor.  Mr. Hay was a very feeble man, and a strange incident of
the affair was the fact that when he rose he went to the place where
his hat hung upon the wall and got it down and put it upon his head.
He had not been able to do this for some time.  After Mrs. Hay had
fixed the stove in its place and with the assistance of a neighbor
gathered up the scattered coals, her husband informed her that he had
been badly scalded.  She examined the burns and a physician was sent
for, and the scalding was found to be of a serious nature.  Mr. Hay
lived about a week afterward.  He was interred at Asbury Church burying
ground.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Wednesday, February 20, 1878, page 3