OBIT: Ralph HUNTER, 1896, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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RALPH HUNTER

Died at the home of his son, Ralph T. Hunter, 925 Third avenue, this 
morning at 11:50 o'clock, of general debility and diseases incident to 
old age.  He had been ailing for the past two years.  The deceased was 
born in County Durham, England, seventy-three years ago.  He came to 
this country in 1854? And took up his residence in Schuylkill county. 
In 1875 he came to this city and entered the employ of the Pennsylvania 
railroad company as a machinist.  For a number of years he had been a 
gang foreman under Foreman Peter Moore.  On the 7th of last March he 
was compelled to relinquish his work on account of failing health, and 
since then he was unable to resume his occupation.  Mr. Hunter was 
highly esteemed by all those who knew him, especially by the men under 
his charge.  He was a member of the Episcopal church.  He is survived 
by the following children: Mrs. A. Bentley, of Carbondale; Ralph T. 
Hunter of this city; Mrs. M. E. Pierson, of Susquehanna, and Miss Sadie 
J. Hunter, residing with her brother, at 925 Third avenue.

Altoona Mirror, December 14, 1896