OBIT: Harry Edgar SEEDS, 1910, Tyrone, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Miller Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ DEATH OF HARRY E. SEEDS. Former Tyrone Merchant Passes to His Reward. This morning at 8.15 o'clock Harry E. Seeds, formerly of Tyrone died in the sanitarium at Hollidaysburg, Pa. Death was due to a nervous breakdown. Mr. Seeds has been in failing health since the twenty- fourth of last November. He went to a private, sanitarium in western Pennsylvania, and while there, became very much better and returned home to Altoona. Last Friday, he became seriously ill again and grew weaker until death ended all this morning at the above mentioned time. Harry Edgar Seeds was one of the best known young men in Blair county, especially in Tyrone and vicinity. He was born at Eden Hill on February 4, 1874 and was aged 35 years, 11 months and 14 days. When a small boy, he came to Tyrone with his father and sister Miss Mary and attended the public schools here. When a young man, he embarked In the pool and cigar business, and conducted the same for several years. Afterwards he went to Altoona and started a gents furnishing establishment with a branch store in Johnstown. Mr. Seeds was quite prosperous in this business and enjoyed the patronage of a large trade. He was a young man of ability and was respected by all who knew him. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Altoona and of the Sinking Spring lodge No. 127 Knights of Pythias, of Tyrone and Tyrone Camp of Modern Woodmen, No. 5513. He leaves to mourn his death, his wife Mrs. Elsie Neumer, of Altoona and the following brothers and sisters: Robert S. Seeds, of Birmingham; Charles, of Chicago, Illinois; Miss Mary Seeds, of Tyrone; and Mrs. Anna Goodwin, of Dwight, Illinois. The funeral will occur on Monday morning at 9.30 o'clock. Services will be conducted at the Seeds home, 1118, Sixteenth Avenue by Reverend H. I. Bolby. Internment in Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone. Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Thursday, January 20, 1910