Blair County PA Archives Obituaries.....LaPorte, Benjamin Jones  April 19, 1915
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The Tyrone Herald 4/22/1915
BENJAMIN JONES LAPORTE.
Died at the Home of His Brother on Lincoln Avenue.
Monday morning at 5:40 o’clock Benjamin Jones LaPorte died at the home of his 
brother, A. M. LaPorte, on Lincoln avenue, after prolonged illness from 
diseases incident to old age.  He was the eldest child of John and Mary Ann 
Jones LaPorte and was born October 21, 1834, being past eighty years of age at 
the time of his death.
The first forty years of his life were spent in Spruce Creek valley, but in 
1874 he settled in Philipsburg, where he filled the office of justice of the 
peace for many years and which had been his home until last July wince which 
time he has been in Tyrone.
Benjamin Jones LaPorte was married February 14, 1872, to Miss Leander Ewing, 
who passed away, September, 1911.  The decease had been for many years a member 
of the Presbyterian church, first in Graysville, afterward in Philipsburg.  
Services were held at the home of A. M. LaPorte, on Lincoln avenue on Wednesday 
afternoon at one o’clock.  Interment at Graysville.


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