OBIT: Jane E. LEWIS, 1890, Tyrone Township, Blair County, PA

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THE CORONER KEPT BUSY.
CALLED UPON TO HOLD TWO INQUESTS YESTERDAY.
Mrs. Jane E. Lewis, of Tyrone Township, Dies on Saturday of Concussion 
of the Brain, Which the Jury Says Was Produced by the Hands of Some 
Person or Persons to Them Unknown.

  Mrs. Jane E. Lewis, a widow, died at her home in Tyrone township on 
Saturday afternoon.  The house in which she lived was also occupied by 
her son William.  The body will be brought to Altoona to-day in time to 
be placed on the 12.40 train and on it the cortege will proceed to 
Hollidaysburg, where the interment will be made in the Presbyterian 
cemetery at that place.  The son came to Altoona on Sunday evening and 
made the arrangements necessary for the funeral.
  There are certain circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Lewis 
which led to an investigation being made by Coroner Poet.  The coroner 
went to Tyrone township yesterday morning, and at the house where the 
death occurred, impannelled the following jury: William Russell, Paul 
Hurm, W. S. Caldwell, Thomas H. Kelly, W. M. Cochran and Robert W. 
Cochran.
  In the testimony which followed it was learned that Mrs. Lewis was 
blind and therefore was to a certain extent dependent upon her son.  It 
seems that on Wednesday, the 10th inst., he left the house for the 
purpose of taking some cabbages, etc., to a store some distance away.  
This was about 4 o'clock.  When he went away he locked the door and it 
was some little time after dark when he returned.  When he did so and 
opened the house he heard a strange sound - as of some one breathing 
heavily.  He lighted the lamp and found his mother lying on the floor 
with her head toward the stairway.  She was unable to answer his 
questions, but when he asked her if she had fallen down stairs she 
shook her head in the negative, repeating this when he asked the second 
time.  Then he went to the neighbors and told them of the occurrence 
and they did all possible to aid the woman, but their efforts availed 
little, and on Saturday evening she died.  There was a gash cut in her 
forehead, one of her eyes was also bruised, and behind one of her ears 
were marks which could not have been received other than by a blow or a 
fall.  When all the testimony was taken the jury rendered a verdict 
that "death was the result of concussion of the brain produced by blows 
received at the hands of some person or persons unknown to the jury."

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, December 16, 1890