OBIT: John H. MILLER, 1893, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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AN OLD RESIDENT GONE.
Sudden Death of John H. Miller in East Tyrone Last Week.

  John H. Miller, one of the oldest residents of Tyrone, who was born 
within the present borough limits twenty years before the town was 
erected, died very suddenly of heart failure at 6.15 o'clock Thursday 
night, at the residence of his son, George W. Miller, corner of Twenty-
second street and Columbia avenue, where he made his home.  He had not 
been ill previously and his death was a sad and sudden blow to his 
family.  Last evening he had gone out of the house into the yard and 
had not been long outside when his son went in search of him, finding 
him lying on his back where he had evidently fallen just as he was 
about to emerge from an out-house.  The spark of life had fled, his 
death having been instantaneous.
  Mr. Miller was born July 11, 1831, his age at death therefore being 
62 years, 4 months and 26 days.  His birthplace was the famous old 
long-house which stood alongside the Big Spring, then located in Snyder 
township, Huntingdon county, and now in Tyrone borough, Blair county.  
All his life was spent in this immediate vicinity.  He resided the 
greatest number of years at and near Bald Eagle and Vail.  For the past 
eleven years he had been a resident of Tyrone.  During the war he was a 
soldier in Co. I, Ninety-first regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 
serving during the campaigns of 1865.  He was a member of the Grand 
Army of the Republic since that organization was formed.
  The deceased is survived by three sons and one daughter.  They are 
George W., William H., and Harry Miller, and Mrs. Annie M. Smith, all 
residing in the seventh ward.  His wife, whose maiden name was Harriet 
Woomer, died twenty-three years ago.  Surviving are also one brother 
and one sister, James Miller, of Bellwood, and Mrs. Emma Hatfield, of 
Huntingdon.
  The funeral cortege left the late residence of the deceased at 10 
o'clock Sunday morning, proceeding to Bald Eagle where the funeral 
services were conducted in the Methodist church by Rev. Mr. Sarvis.  
Interment at Bald Eagle.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., December 14, 1893