OBIT: Thomas M. NIECE, 1891, of interest in Blair County, PA

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Death of Thomas M. Niece.

  Thomas M. Niece, son of Captain M. Niece, of this city, died at 
Deadwood, South Dakota, on the 6th inst., in the 50th years of his age.  
He had been ailing with rheumatism for some months and about six weeks 
previous to his death received a stroke of paralysis which left him 
insensible for several hours.  He rallied, however, and was able to be 
about until a few hours before his death, which was due to rheumatism 
of the heart.  Mr. Niece was born in McVeytown, in 1841.  He enlisted 
and was elected second lieutenant of company K, Forty-ninth 
Pennsylvania volunteers; afterward was promoted to adjutant of the 
regiment.  He is survived by one son, a member of the United States 
marine corps.  He was buried on the 8th inst. by the Keogh post, Grand 
Army of the Republic, at Deadwood, S.D.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, January 17, 1891