OBIT: Michael MERK, 1896, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MICHAEL MERK,

A car-builder employed under Foreman Kipple of the freight shop, dropped 
dead while at work shortly before 6 o'clock last evening.  Coroner Foust, 
who was immediately summoned, decided that an inquest was not necessary, 
death having been evidently due to heart disease.  Deceased was about 61 
years of age, was a German and came to this country thirty-five years ago.  
He enlisted in the Union army, and was a member of Company M, Sixty-second 
Pennsylvania Volunteers.  August 15, 1864, he was honorably discharged.  For 
the past thirty years deceased had boarded with Mrs. Susan Miller of Ninth 
avenue near Tenth street.  Funeral from Lafferty's undertaking rooms this 
afternoon at 4 o'clock, Rev. Mr. Gray officiating; enterment [sic] in 
Fairview cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, January 18, 1896

Note: Also spelled Merke (Fairview cemetery records) and Murk (1880 census).