OBIT: Daniel LIGHTNER, 1893, Gaysport, Blair County, PA

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Daniel Lightner,

A veteran of the late war, died at his home in Gaysport yesterday 
afternoon at 4 o'clock.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Evening, March 21, 1893

Daniel Lightner

Died at his home in Gaysport yesterday at noon, aged 53 years.  He is 
survived by a wife and twelve children.  Mr. Lightner was the keeper of 
No. 1 furnace of the Cambria Iron company for many years.  He had an 
honorable war record, serving in company C, Fifty-third regiment 
Pennsylvania infantry, and he was also a member of Colonel Wm. G. 
Murray post No. 39, Grand Army of the Republic.  The funeral services 
will be held on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and the remains will 
be interred with the honors of war.  Interment in the Lutheran cemetery 
at Hollidaysburg.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Friday Evening, May 5, 1893

Note: Obit published in March and May.  There is no record in McFarland 
Funeral Home for Daniel Lightner.  Floyd Hoenstine's Solders of Blair 
County gives only 1840-1893.