OBIT: Henry MILTON, 1882, Blair County, PA

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Altoona Man Dies in Chicago from Small-pox.

Friday afternoon Mrs. Henry Milton received a telegram from Chicago
which conveyed the dreadful tidings that her husband had died from
small-pox the night previous.  The information was sent by Dr. Oscar
C. De Wolf, commissioner of health.  Mr. Henry Milton was a boiler
maker by trade and worked in the railroad shops in this city until
about two months ago, when he went to Chicago to work in the shops of
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad.  He was stricken down
with small-pox, and was admitted to the hospital conducted by the
Sisters of Mercy, May 20.  Through the kindness of the city and
hospital authorities and Mr. Milton's shop friends his family in this
city had been in receipt of daily telegrams informing them of his
condition, and in consequence were not altogether unprepared for this
last sad message.  The remains were buried in a Catholic cemetery in
Chicago yesterday in accordance with instructions sent.  The deceased
was about 40 years of age.  His wife and seven little children reside
on Seventh avenue between Third and Fourth street.  Mrs. Milton is a
sister of Mr. John Lee, of the company's tin shop and also of Mr.
Peter Lee, telegraph operator.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, June 8, 1882, page 3