OBIT: David J. LEWIS, 1873, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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HATCHED AND SNATCHED.

  -  Mr. D. J. Lewis, of this city, on last Friday night, while in a 
frenzied state, cut his throat with a butcher knife and died at 2 
o'clock P.M. the following day.  His remains were interred in Fair View 
Cemetery on last Sunday.  Mr. Lewis was employed by the P.R.R. Co. in 
the capacity of a painter for some time back, and had but recently 
returned from Philadelphia where he went to have an operation performed 
on one of his eyes.

Altoona Sun, Altoona, Pa., Friday morning, May 23, 1873

Hoenstine, Floyd G., Soldiers of Blair County - 
Lewis, David J., Pvt. D, 35 Pa. Inf., 1840-1873, Fairview, Altoona