OBIT: Henry E. PARK, 1899, Sinking Valley, Blair County, PA

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TYRONE TOPICS.

  We are indebted to the Daily Herald for the following: Henry E. Park, 
brother of Mrs. John Dickson, of Sinking Valley, and David Dickson, son 
of Mr. and Mrs. John Dickson, came to Tyrone Sunday afternoon on 
bicycles and remained here till about half after 12 o'clock Monday, 
when they returned to the valley.  On arriving at the home of J. H. 
McMullin in the valley, Mrs. McMullin being a sister of Park also, they 
stopped and took dinner.  Leaving the McMullin place about 3 o'clock 
they went up the side of the mountain back of Skelp to the Dickson 
home.  On arriving there Park had just got off his wheel and was 
standing beside it talking to Mrs. Dickson, and just as he was asking 
where John was fell to the ground.  To his sister Park remarked as he 
fell: "Do not be scared," and he was dead in a few moments.  He was 
subject to severe pains about the heart.  He had eaten a hearty dinner 
and drank very freely of cold water at the McMullin home.  This in 
connection with the predisposition to heart trouble evidently was the 
cause of death.  Dr. C. M. Ewing was summoned, not that he could render 
any service to the dead man, but the family desired to have a physician 
examine him.
  Deceased was a native of Huntingdon county.  He had reached the age 
of 31 years in June last.  Five years ago he went to Illinois and 
worked on a farm.  During this time he had worked very hard and 
concluded to come east and take a rest.  He arrived here on the 24th of 
June, and was making the valley his temporary home.  His parents are 
dead.  Six brothers and seven sisters survive him, viz: Amon, of 
Tyrone; James, Mrs. John Dickson and Mrs. J. H. McMullin, of Sinking 
Valley; David, of Juniata; Mrs. Maggie Swisher, of Punxsutawney; Mrs. 
Jennie Bush, of Huntingdon; Clinton, of Mill Creek; Rody, of Aughwick 
Mills, Pa.; Isaac, of Maddensville, Huntingdon county; Nicholas, of 
Burnt Cabins; Mrs. Elsie O'Niel, of Six-Mile Run, and Mrs. Sue Waters, 
of Eagleton, Wis.
  The funeral will occur this afternoon.  Services at the home of John 
Dickson at 1 o'clock by Rev. L. M. Lewis.  Interment at Arch Spring 
cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, July 12, 1899