OBIT: John LOCKE, 1891, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.

  At an early hour on Saturday morning, John Locke, a bright, active 
young man of about eighteen years, died at the home of his grandmother, 
Mrs. John Cresswell, near Cresswell station, on the branch railroad.  
He was in the best of health and spirits a few days before, and his 
untimely taking off through a sudden attack of cerebro-spinal 
meningitis, was a sad stroke to his relatives.  He was a son of Mr. and 
Mrs. E. E. Locke, who predeceased him several years, and is survived 
only by a younger sister Alice.  He was a young man of pleasing and 
affable address; imbued with many manly qualities, highly esteemed by 
his youthful associates and his future was wreathed with promise.  The 
funeral service will be conducted by Rev. D. H. Barron at the home of 
Mrs. Cresswell this morning, at 11.30 o'clock.  The remains will be 
brought here on the 1.10 o'clock train, and interred in the 
Presbyterian cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, April 6, 1891

1880 Hollidaysburg, Blair County census -
John Creswell, 61  
Margaret Creswell, 62  
Sallie Creswell, 29  
Mary Creswell, 26  
John Locke, 7  
Margt. Creswell, 19  
E. E. Locke, 4  
Alice Locke, 2