OBIT: Harrison OBURN, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ HARRISON OBURN. At 1 p.m. yesterday Harrison Oburn died at his home, 810 Lexington avenue, of tumor of the brain and consequent paralysis. He had been sick for nearly a year and a half. He was born at Ennisville, Huntingdon county, May 13, 1840, being the son of Joseph and Mary Oburn. He came to Altoona in 1872 and started in the grocery business at Chestnut avenue and Tenth street. He afterwards moved to another store across the avenue, and again changed his location a few years later to one of the rooms of the Masonic Temple. His last place of business was at Chestnut avenue and Eleventh street. When he sold out his store there two years ago he retired from active business. He was married to Miss Fannie M. Smith, of Ennisville, April 27, 1882. During the war of the rebellion he had an honorable record as a soldier in the union army. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in company C, Forty-fifth regiment infantry, Pennsylvania volunteers. At the expiration of his term of service of three years, he re-enlisted in the same regiment. He participated in every battle in which his regiment took part and in the Wilderness he was shot through the left shoulder. Near Petersburg, just before the close of the war, he was captured by the confederates, and taken to the military prison at Salisbury, N.C. In attempting to escape, he was shot through the leg between the ankle and the knee by a sentinel. He recovered from his wound and after six months of confinement he rejoined his regiment and was mustered out as a sergeant. The deceased was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church for over twenty years. He also belonged to the Union Veteran Legion and to the Independent Order of Heptasophs. He formerly belonged for Post 62, Grand Army of the Republic. Besides his wife he is survived by one daughter - Amy - at home; two brothers - William, of Ennisville, Pa., and Joseph, of Mooresville, Huntingdon county - and three sisters - Mrs. Mary Miller, of Saulsbury, Huntingdon county; Mrs. H. M. Horning, of Duncannon, and Mrs. Amanda Kantner, of Altoona. The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Public services will be conducted at the house by Rev. Horace Lincoln Jacobs, after which the remains will be privately interred in Fairview cemetery. Those who wish to view the body can do so at the late home of the deceased, 810 Lexington avenue, from 4 until 8 o'clock this evening and from 10 o'clock until noon to-morrow. Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, August 14, 1899