OBIT: John TATE, 1893, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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JOHN TATE.

  Died at his residence, 1201 1/2 Thirteenth avenue, at 9:30 o'clock last 
night, of a congestive chill, which first attacked him at 10 o'clock Monday 
morning.  The deceased was one of Altoona's oldest residents.  He was born in 
Newry, County Down, Ireland, seventy-one years ago, and came to the United 
States in 1846.  In this city, on August 15, 1865, he married Ellen Carroll.  
To the union two children were born - Ellen E., who died twenty-six years 
ago, and George F., now a student at the University of Pennsylvania.  Mr. 
Tate was a stonemason by trade and judiciously invested his savings in real 
estate, accumulating much valuable property, while others with better 
opportunities were wondering whether the two was to have a future or not.  
Since 1878 he lived retired.  Mr. Tate crossed the Atlantic twice to visit 
his mother, who died a few years ago aged 110 years.  He belonged to no 
organizations excepting the Vigilant fire company, of which he was a life 
member.  The funeral will take place on Saturday morning at 8:30 o'clock, and 
not on Friday morning as announced in the morning papers.  Requiem mass at 
St. John's Catholic church; interment in St. John's cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Wednesday, January 4, 1893