OBIT: John F. SPAULDING, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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JOHN F. SPAULDING. [photo]

  John F. Spaulding, a retired Pennsylvania Railroad company employe 
and a veteran of the Civil war, died at his home, 1314 Second street, 
at 3 o'clock yesterday morning of apoplexy.  He had not been in the 
best of health for several years.
  Deceased was born at Cincinnati, O., on February 15, 1847, and was 
reared and schooled there.  Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil war 
he came to Pennsylvania and located at Chambersburg where he learned 
and worked at the carpentering trade.  On October 3, 1864, he enlisted 
as a private in Company B, Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania infantry under the 
command of Captain D. W. Doughtery, and served with distinction to the 
end of the war.  He took part in the battles of Hatcher's Run, Dabney's 
Mills, Gravelly Run, Boydton and White Oak House at the time of Lee's 
surrender to Grant in April 1865.  He was injured in the back during an 
engagement at South Side Railroad cut during the last year of the war 
but was able to continue with his regiment until honorably discharged 
at Philadelphia, July 1, 1865. 
  He returned to Chambersburg at the close of the war and resumed work 
as a carpenter.  He came to Altoona in 1873 and had since resided here.  
He assisted in the erection of numerous buildings and on April 11, 
1878, entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad company in the 
freight car shop.  Later his sight failed him and he was given the 
position of a watchman which position he filled until May 1, 1914, when 
he was retired. 
  He was married April 25, 1871, to Sara Knott, who survives with six 
children as follows: Mrs. A. B. McDonald, Mrs. W. D. Miller, E. J., 
John F., and J. E., all of this city, and J. W., of New York city.  He 
was a member of St. Mark's Roman Catholic church.  The funeral will 
leave the house at 8:30 o'clock Friday morning and proceed to St. 
Mark's church where mass will be celebrated at 9 o'clock.  Interment in 
St. John's cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday Morning, January 24, 1917