OBIT: Abraham Blair KOON, 1919, Duncansville, Blair County, PA

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ABRAHAM BLAIR KOON

  Yesterday afternoon at his home on Market street, Duncansville, 
Abraham Blair Koon died at 2:35 of a complication of diseases.  He 
spent the larger part of his life in Duncansville where he was born 
August 7, 1854.  He was a cooper by trade and during the nail industry 
period in his native town followed that occupation, later he embarked 
in the cobler [sic] trade and added to his shoe shop a grocery store in 
which he interested himself until his death.
  He was a member of the local lodge independent Order of Red Men.  His 
wife preceded him to the grave last July and surviving are one brother, 
T. F. Koon, and one sister, Mrs. John Hicks, both of Duncansville.
  The funeral will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his 
late residence, interment in Carson Valley cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Monday Morning, March 24, 1919