OBIT: Armstrong Salyards WOODS, 1924, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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ARMSTRONG SALYARDS WOODS,

Veteran lumberman and raftsman on the Susquehanna river, died at the 
Altoona hospital on Sunday evening at 6.50 o'clock of a complication of 
diseases incident to old age. He was admitted to the hospital on Sept. 
19, following his being in ill health during the past summer. He 
resided with his daughter, Mrs. Winifred McCracken, wife of F. V. 
McCracken of 101 East Willow avenue. He was a resident of this city for 
the past nineteen years. He lived retired. He was born Dec. 18, 1843, 
at LaJose, Clearfield county, the son of Benjamin and Rachael Woods, 
deceased, and for many years he was a raftsman and later a pilot on the 
Susquehanna river. He is survived by his widow, Lottie, and one 
daughter, Mrs. McCracken of this city; also by two brothers, James of 
Clearfield and Edmund of Altoona, and three sisters, Mrs. Catherine 
Strook of DuBois, Mrs. Elizabeth Goss of Grampian and Mrs. Nan McGarvey 
of Clearfield. He was a member of the First Evangelical church of this 
city. The funeral will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from 
the daughter's residence. Rev. C. D. Fewterbaugh to have charge. 
Interment will be made in Rose Hill cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Monday, September 29, 1924