OBIT: Edmund KIEFER, 1880, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Cadet Midshipman Kiefer Dead.

  Many are the friends who well knew him who will be shocked to learn 
of the sudden death of E. E. Kiefer, at Annapolis, Maryland.  He was a 
son of Ludwig and Magdeline Kiefer, of Thirteenth avenue, near 
Fifteenth street, this city.  Mr. Kiefer would have been 18 years of 
age on the 27th of next January had he lived.  He was entered at 
Annapolis about a year and a half ago as a cadet midshipman and was 
progressing favorably with his studies.  His family did not learn of 
his illness until after dark last night, and this was shortly followed 
by a dispatch that he had died of obstruction of the bowels.  Typhoid 
fever has been prevailing at Annapolis for some weeks past and it may 
have been that young Kiefer was sick of it, and that his family was not 
notified that knowledge of the disease might not spread.  It has not 
yet been determined whether the body will be brought to Altoona for 
interment.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday, November 19, 1880

Funeral of Cadet Edward E. Kiefer.

  Mr. Ludwig Kiefer will arrive home to-day from Annapolis, Md., with 
the remains of his son, who died on Thursday evening.  The interment 
will take place in Fairview cemetery Sunday afternoon.  The funeral 
cortege will leave the parental residence, No. 1434 Thirteenth avenue, 
at 3 o'clock P.M. and proceed to Christ Reformed Church when religious 
services will be held by Rev. J. M. Titzel, pastor.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, November 20, 1880

CITY AND COUNTRY.
Things Briefly Told.

  The funeral of young Cadet Kiefer will take place at Annapolis at 10 
o'clock this morning.  The body will then be brought to Altoona for 
burial.  The cause of his death has been reported by the academy 
authorities to have been peritonetus [sic].

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, November 20, 1880

The Cause of Cadet Keifer's Death.

  A post mortem examination of the remains of the late Cadet Edward E. 
Keifer was made at the Annapolis naval academy last Friday by the 
medical staff of the institution.  A calculus was discovered to have 
formed in the worm-like appendix attached to the large intestine, the 
calculus resembling in appearance a Minie rifle ball, which caused 
perforation producing death.  The calculus has been sent to the United 
States naval hospital at Washington to be examined for the purpose of 
ascertaining the nature of its composition.  Physicians state that the 
trouble which ended the young man's life is a very rare one, but it is 
incurable and is impossible to afford the patient relief.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, November 23, 1880

1870 Altoona Ward 3, Blair County census -
Ludwig Kieffer, 37 
Magdalena Kieffer, 31 
William Kieffer, 9 
Edmund Kieffer, 7 
Louisa F. Kieffer, 1