OBIT: Milton LANE, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MILTON LANE

  Milton Lane, an aged colored resident of this city, who made his home 
at 2221 Ninth avenue, died at 7:06 o'clock yesterday morning at the 
Altoona hospital from hardening of the arteries and diseases incident 
to old age.  He was born in 1832 and at the outbreak of the Civil war 
enlisted in Company H, Fifty-fourth regiment, Massachusetts voluntary 
infantry.  He was honorably discharged from service at Mt. Pleasant, 
S.C., August 29, 1865.  He had no relatives in this city, but is said 
to have a daughter living in Pittsburg.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday Morning, January 24, 1917

Funeral Notice.

  The funeral of Milton Lane, who died at the Altoona hospital on 
Tuesday morning, will be held from the African Methodist Episcopal Zion 
church, of which he was a member, at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, with 
services in charge of Rev. D. F. Bradley.  Interment will be made in 
Oak Ridge cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, January 25, 1917