OBIT: John SUMMERS, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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JOHN SUMMERS

  John Summers, one of the oldest colored men of this city and a former 
slave, died at 5 o'clock Saturday morning at the Altoona hospital from 
pneumonia.  He was in his 92nd year, having been a resident of this 
city for the past fifty-six years.  He came here from Virginia, where 
he had once been a slave.  He has no known relatives.  The remains were 
turned over to Undertakers Hickey & O'Neil to be prepared for burial.  
Summers had been employed for some time by Dr. McCarthy.  The funeral 
services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Mt. Zion 
A.M.E. church.  Interment will follow in Fairview cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday morning, March 5, 1917