OBIT: John M. MOORE, 1866, Blair County, PA

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MAN KILLED. - On Monday evening last, a man named John M. Moore, was
run over by a freight train, in the neighborhood of Kittanning Point,
and so much injured that he died on Tuesday morning.  His legs were
fractured below the knees and his skull broken.  His body was brought
to the "dead house," at this place and on Wednesday buried in the
cemetery.  The deceased was a tailor by trade, and worked with Mr.
Stouffer, in Hollidaysburg.  He came to this place on Monday, to
witness the parade, and it is supposed that, in the evening, he made a
mistake in taking the Western train for the Hollidaysburg train, was
put off the train at the Point, when the mistake was discovered, and
that in attempting to get upon one of the freight trains to return to
this place, he fell and was run over.  From papers found on his person
it appears that he was in the Rebel army during the rebellion, being a
member of Co. C., 64th Georgia Regiment.  From persons in
Hollidaysburg we learn that he was employed in Atlanta, Ga., when the
war broke out.  His papers show that he deserted from the rebel army
on the 16th of April, 1865, on the occupation of Richmond by the Union
army.  His native place was Albany or Rochester, N. Y.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., April 14, 1866, page 3