OBIT: Unknown Infant, 1880, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ Death of a Waif. It will be remembered by the readers of the TRIBUNE that a 3-weeks- old babe was found on the doorstep of Mrs. Ruth Brothers, residing on the corner of Twenty-first street and Thirteenth avenue, about six months ago. The affair assumed a sort of mystery at the time, if it did not create a very great sensation. However, the matter was soon forgotten by Mr. A. C. Cornelius, residing on Fifth avenue, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, adopting the child. It was not supposed at the time that the infant, from its feeble condition, would see many years, if months, but it managed to survive until 11:30 o'clock yesterday when it succumbed to an attack of brain fever, aged about 7 months. It will be buried in Fairview cemetery this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The guilty mother, who cast her offspring away last March, will now know that it is at rest in a better world, where we advise her to meet it by mending her ways. Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, August 12, 1880