OBIT: Tommy HILLIARD, 1864, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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SUDDEN DEATH - The Altoona Tribune says that on  Saturday last, (16th 
inst.) as a number of boys were coasting down one of the streets in the 
West Ward of that Borough, Tommy Hilliard, son of Jos. Hilliard, ran 
his sled off the track and against the steps in front of a house, on 
the sidewalk, injuring himself so much internally, that he died at noon 
on Sunday.  He was a fine, promising little boy, and a favorite of all 
who knew him.  Will our Hollidaysburg youth who indulge in the 
dangerous sport of coasting down our sidewalks, take warning from the 
melancholy fate of this little fellow?

Democratic Standard, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, January 27, 1864