OBIT: Abby HURLY, 1890, Duncansville, Blair County, PA

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Took the Wrong Medicine.

  Our Duncansville correspondent writes: Mrs. Hurly, who was for a long 
while in attendance at the beside of Mrs. Harry Jenks, who was very ill 
with typhoid fever, died suddenly yesterday afternoon.  The 
particulars, as far as we could learn, are these: The physician had 
prepared a medicine which was taken regularly by Mrs. Hurly as a 
preventative of fever, which medicine was placed with other medicine 
used by Mrs. Jenks as an outward application.  In mistake she took a 
dose of the latter, which was a poisonous preparation.  She was 
immediately taken sick, and though physicians were quickly summoned, 
they could not stay the hand of death, for in about one hour her spirit 
took its flight.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, December 17, 1890

Note: Blair County Genealogical Society, Carson Valley Cemetery lists 
Abby Hurley as having died 12/16/1891.