OBIT: Joseph KOHLER, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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HAD NO DEATH CETIFICATE

  Joseph, son of Frank and Louisa Kohler, who reside on Eighth street, 
in Bell's extension, died yesterday morning, aged 1 year and 5 months.  
The child, it is said, died suddenly and no physician had been called 
in to treat it.  Consequently when the father visited Undertaker Hickey 
& O'Neil, he had no physician's certificate showing the cause of death.  
The undertaker cannot get a permit to bury a body in any cemetery 
unless he has a certificate, signed by the attending physician or the 
coroner, showing the cause of death.
  The case was reported to Coroner McCartney and he made an 
investigation today, but discovered nothing wrong, only that no 
physician had treated the child.
  The funeral took place at 2 o'clock this afternoon.  Interment being 
made in St. Mary's cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Thursday Evening, October 5, 1899