OBIT: James Edward McKINSTRY, 1918, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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McKINSTRY

  James Edward McKinstry, a well known and highly esteemed young man, 
died yesterday morning at 3 o'clock at his home, 307 South Wayne 
street, of pneumonia, following an attack of Spanish influenza, after 
an illness of about two weeks.  He was a son of James A. (deceased) and 
Margaret Cecelia McKinstry, and was born in Altoona Jan. 21, 1881.  Mr. 
McKinstry was employed as a gang leader in the airbrake department of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad company, in the East Hollidaysburg 
classification yards.  He was a lifelong member of the Zion Lutheran 
church of Hollidaysburg, was a young man of excellent character and 
good habits.  Mr. McKinstry was unmarried.  He is survived by his 
mother, with whom he resided, and four sisters, as follows: Mrs. Harry 
D. Soyster, Mrs. William H. Schmidt, and Miss Annie, of Hollidaysburg, 
and Mrs. Edward Blackburn of Altoona.  Private funeral services will be 
held at his late home on Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, and will 
be conducted by Rev. Julius F. Seebach, pastor of the Zion Lutheran 
church.  Private interment will be made in Oak Ridge cemetery, Altoona.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, October 29, 1918