Cambria County PA Archives Obituaries.....Boland, Thomas W.  May 16, 1869
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The Cambria freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938: May 27, 1869
At Summitville, at 12 o'clock on Sunday, May 16th, Mr. Thomas W. Boland, aged 30
years and 6 months. The deceased was born in the vicinity of his death, and was
throughout life highly esteemed for his noble qualities of mind and heart. Besides
receiving the full benefits of a common school education, he graduated with first
class honors (for rapid progress in his studies and most exemplary conduct) at St.
Francis College, Loretto. Up to this time he was somewhat delicate in constitution,
but after his retirement from school he became stout and robust, and ere long
determined upon a trip to the sunny South. After a brief sojourn in Arkansas,
however, he lost his health and was forced to return home, where he soon regained
his strength, and shortly afterwards became connected with the firm of Coolbroth,
Hasty & Co., of Hollidaysburg, in the manufacture of "shook," of which business his
mechanical genius and persevering industry soon made him the master. In this
business he continued for about eight years, and made it profitable. At the age of
twenty eight he married a most estimable and beautiful young lady, but ere one month
of wedded bliss had passed away, his fair young bride was attacked by that fell
destroyer, consumption, and within eight days of the first anniversary of their
wedding her pure spirit passed from earth forever. The stricken husband, himself
severely afflicted with bronchitis, was, in November last, advised by his physician
to visit Cuba for the benefit of his health. This advice he complied with, but had
not much more than reached that tropical climate when he contracted the bilious
fever, which confined him to bed for four months. Recovering sufficiently to
undertake the journey, he set out for his parental home, and reached it only to
linger six weeks longer, when death put an end to his earthly sufferings, one year
and four months exactly having intervened between the death of his wife and his own
demise. Throughout his illness the deceased bore his sufferings with the utmost
patience and resignation. He retained his senses to the last moment, and calling his
friends to his bedside, told them his last hour had come and bid them all a final
and affectionate farewell. He died as he had lived, a moral, exemplary and faithful
member of the Catholic Church, and there is every reason to believe that he has been
called to enjoy the rewards of a well spent life. His early death is sincerely
regretted by a large circle of relatives and friends. May he rest in peace.

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