OBIT: Harry HURST, 1880, Allegheny Township, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.
Two Paupers Die in the Almshouse of Old Age.

  On Saturday evening an old man named Bartley died in the almshouse.  
Bartley formerly owned a farm in Juniata township, and after the death 
of his wife he was induced to sell his land and live with strangers who 
professed to be his friend.  After getting all his money they removed 
him to the almshouse to die.  The old man appeared to know his time had 
come, as a few hours previous he requested another inmate named Pat 
Ward to give him a match to light his pipe, remarking it would be the 
last smoke he would ever want, as he would die before night.  On Monday 
evening another old inmate named Harry Hurst died.  Mr. Hurst a few 
years ago kept a little store near the White Hall Hotel in Altoona and 
often peddled through the country, and was well known in the town where 
he lived for many years.  On one of his trips he became deranged and 
not only threw away his pack of goods but his clothing also, and was 
found wandering about in Hickory bottom in a nude state.  He was taken 
to the almshouse and after a few months got well.  He will be buried 
to-morrow in the Catholic graveyard in this town.  Both of the deceased 
died of old age.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, September 22, 1880

1880 Allegheny Township, Blair County census -
Henry Hurst, 83, b. c1797, Ireland