OBIT: Benjamin HUSTON, 1887, Blair County, PA

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NEWRY ITEMS.

On Saturday evening Undertaker Hite of Roaring Spring, passed through
this place on his way to the county almshouse for the purpose of
removing the corpse of Benjamin Houston to Roaring Spring, he having
died on Saturday morning.  Interment at the above place on Sunday
afternoon.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, May 12, 1887, page 4

ROARING SPRING RIPPLES.

Benjamin Huston, an old citizen of Maria Forges, died on Friday and
was interred in the cemetery at this place, Rev. W. W. Reese, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, preaching the funeral discourse in the
Methodist church.  Mr. Huston was about 76 years of age at the time of
his death.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, May 19, 1887, page 4