OBIT: George TROUTWINE, Jr., 1890, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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Tyrone Topics.

  On Saturday evening George Troutwine, jr., expired at his residence, 
on Blair street, a victim of brain fever.  He had but entered upon 
life's practical career and in the promise of its early morning passed 
to the other side.  Less than 23 years of age - born March 21, 1868; 
married in 1887, the years stretched out before him full of hopeful 
promise for the future.  He was long an employe in the tannery of the 
Ray Bros., and in a sphere of a laboring man's life he honestly filled 
his place and won the respect of all who knew him.  As husband and 
father he was among nature's noblemen, and of him it may be said that, 
moving in life's common walks, unostentatious, claiming to occupy no 
high moral ground not common to the race, he did his work and did it 
well, and rests among the knights of toil, the friends of humanity who 
in the last assize will not shrink to compare their records with those 
of higher place and wider renown.  Many who knew him will sorrow for 
his death, outside his domestic circle.  He was genial, manly, kind and 
generous, and those who knew him best will most regret "his untimely 
taking off."  He was a member of the Friendship hook and ladder 
company, and also a member of Good Will council No. 42, Junior Order 
American Mechanics.  The funeral service will take place in the German 
Lutheran church, on Logan street, this afternoon and will be conducted 
by the Rev. D. Ph. Eberts, the pastor, at 3 o'clock.  The various 
organizations to which Mr. Troutwine belonged will be present at the 
obsequies, after which the body will be interred in Tyrone cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, October 28, 1890