OBIT: Henry JENGLING, 1880, Blair County, PA

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DEAD AND FRIENDLESS.
Henry Jengling Found Under the Trees Near the Reservoir.

  Yesterday morning about 7 o'clock some boys walking in the vicinity 
of the Twelfth street reservoir, found the apparently lifeless body of 
a man lying in the woods.  They sounded the alarm and soon quite a 
crowd was collected.  An examination was made, and the man was found to 
be Henry Jengling, a well-known character on our streets.  When first 
discovered he was not dead, but in a very few moments he breathed his 
last.  Coroner John Humes was immediately notified, and a jury composed 
of the following gentlemen was summoned: Messrs. William Akers, Charles 
R. Cromley, George M. D. Sandrus, Gust. Klemmert, James Hileman and 
Jacob W. Miller.  After a view the body was removed to Undertaker 
Tipton's.  The jury heard the evidence which developed facts about as 
follows: Jengling lived most of his time lately at Albert Beck's, in 
Mudtown.  He was a German, and very well educated, having been a 
newspaper editor before he came to this country.  His want of a 
thorough knowledge of the English language, however, prevented him from 
following the business here.  Rum and extreme poverty were his 
besetting troubles.  The jury rendered a verdict that the deceased came 
to his death from heart disease, he being in the habit of taking ether.  
He may have taken an overdose which resulted in death.  The body will 
be buried at the almshouse to-day.  On Monday it is said that he 
presented Fred. Earhart with a silver snuff box which he carried, as he 
believed he would not live long and would have no further use for it.  
An effort will be made to communicate with some of the deceased's 
relatives, who are said to be living in Germany and occasionally wrote 
to him.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, July 21, 1880