OBIT: James J. RAUGH, 1882, Blair County, PA

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Death of James J. Raugh.

We regret to announce the death of Mr. James J. Raugh, which sad event
took place at 12 o'clock on Monday night.  Mr. Raugh was born on April
24, 1844, at Alexandria, Huntingdon county, and resided there till the
breaking out of the war.  At the age of 17 years he enlisted,
September 16, 1861, in the Fifty-third regiment, Pennsylvania
volunteers, serving in Company C under Captain John Wintrode.  He
participated with his regiment in the battles of Seven Pines, all
through the seven-days' fight, Second Bull Run, Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and at Gettysburg, where he was
wounded in the arm and side on the evening of July 2, 1863.  His arm
was amputated close to the shoulder, and he remained in the hospital
from that time until October, when he was sent to Germantown as a
messenger boy, remaining there till discharged at the close of the
war.  He then took an agency to sell the life of Lincoln, but had not
been working long when he was prostrated with a serious illness from
the effects of his wounds.  He came to Altoona in 1866, and received
employment as watchman at the shops.  Since the lower shops have been
built he had been employed as chief watchman there.

On the 18th of March, 1872, he was married to Miss Ellen Stahl,
daughter of Mrs. George Randolph, who with three children survives
him.  He was a member Verandah lodge, Independent Order of Old
Fellows; of Post 62, Grand Army of the Republic, and was also a member
of the Second Methodist church.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, June 15, 1882, page 3