OBIT: William Leonard, 1919, at Kittanning Point, Blair County, PA

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FOUND DEAT AT POINT

William Leonard, Veteran of Boer War, Succumbs Sunday Night

  William Leonard, well known in this city and for a time employed at 
the coke ovens in the vicinity of Kittanning Point, was found dead 
along the tracks of one of the Pennsylvania railroad branch coal tracks 
at the Point yesterday morning by several miners.  He was a veteran of 
the Boer war coming here at its close.
  Leonard was in the city Saturday and Sunday, coming here to look for 
employment.  He was thrown out of work when the coke ovens at which he 
was employed closed down.  He talked with friends about going to 
Loretto to work on a reservoir there.  He left the city Sunday night, 
was seen sitting along the track and had evidently died suddenly.  He 
is known to have two sons in the British army.  Deputy Coroner Rothrock 
decided an inquest unnecessary.
  The remains were given over to Undertaker Lafferty & Tobias to be 
prepared for burial.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday, January 28, 1919, page 4