OBIT: John McCABE, 1858, Blair County, PA

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Sudden Deaths.

  Truly "in the midst of life we are in death," and how forcibly do the 
providences we are this week called upon to record, admonish us all of 
the importance of being ready for the solemn change to which we are all 
doomed.
- On Friday afternoon last, Mr. John M'Cabe, long and favorably known 
as Assistant Manager and Book Keeper at Portage Iron Works, was in town 
in his accustomed health, though laboring under an affection of the 
heart which had troubled him for a number of years past.  In the 
evening he started home in his buggy, having with him his little son, 
some 10 or 12 years of age. and his own venerable mother.  When they 
got up as far as the Junction, the Freight train from Altoona came 
thundering along; and it is supposed the apprehension that his horse 
would frighten and run away so excited the action of his heart that he 
was overcome, and falling back into the embrace of his mother, with the 
remark that he was "very sick," he expired on the spot.  He was about 
40 years of age, and leaves a disconsolate widow, with a family of 
seven children, to mourn their bereavement.

Tyrone Star, Tyrone, Pa., April 20, 1858

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