OBIT: Adam M. NASH, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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ADAM M. NASH.

  Adam McFerlin Nash, of 1312 Twelfth avenue, caretaker of the Jaggard 
estate properties in this city for the last forty years, died suddenly 
at his home Saturday morning at 10.35 o'clock, after being stricken 
while shoveling snow.  In 1915, the veteran suffered a stroke of 
paralysis while working as a painter on the Pennsy office building on 
Twelfth street, and had never fully recovered, although he was able to 
be about and perform light duties.  He fell over in the rear yard of 
his home and his wife was attracted by a groan.  The stricken man was 
taken into the house and a physician was summoned.  He lost 
consciousness and sank rapidly until death came.  Mr. Nash was born 
August 18, 1842, in Catherine township, Blair county, and remained 
there until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted with 
Company E, Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers.  He was twice wounded 
in the war.  He came to this city after the war and was employed by the 
Jaggards ever since 1877.  He was a member of the Grace Methodist 
Episcopal church, Fred C. Ward Post 468, G.A.R., and the Union Veteran 
Legion.  His wife survives with two foster children, Mrs. Charles 
Leonard and Mrs. E. R. Myers, both of this city.  Funeral services will 
be held from the late residence at 2.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, 
followed by burial in Oak Ridge cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday morning, March 5, 1917