OBIT: David ROSS, 1873, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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ROSS - On Thursday morning last, a married man named David Ross, 
brakeman on shifter number 36, Altoona, was run over and killed. 
Thirty-five years old; wife and two children.

The Register, Hollidaysburg, Pa., Wednesday, April 2, 1873

Man Killed.

  Yesterday morning about nine o'clock David Ross, brakeman on shifter 
No. 36, was instantly killed at the lower end of the passenger depot in 
this city.  As the shifter was going up the track he got off for some 
purpose, and not noticing the approach of one or two sleeping cars 
being dropped from the depot, was struck and run over by them.  Of 
course he was fatally injured, and breathed but a few minutes.  His 
residence was on Chestnut avenue, and was aged about 35 years, and 
leaves a wife and two children.

Altoona Sun, Altoona, Pa., Friday morning, March 28, 1873