OBIT:  DELLINGER, Harrison; 1864; Cambria Cnty., PA

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The Alleghanian
Ebensburg, Pa.
Thursday, 14 Apr 1864
Volume 5, Number 29


Harrison Dellinger 

Died on Tuesday morning, March 29th of typhoid fever, Harrison Dellinger, in the 
20th year of his age.  Prostrated by disease he was conveyed to the Hospital 
there to die among his sorrowing comrades.  His remains were interred in the 
Lutheran cemetery at Wilmore.

  To the home of his childhood we welcome him back,
  With a greeting as warm as his ashes are cold -
  To the home and the hearts he shall gladden no more
  To the grave in whose dampness shall slumber his mould.
  He left us in gladness; - his eye was as bright
  As the future, that shone like sun on his way;
  And we gazed on his form with a pride like his own
  While our hearts throbbed with dread on that desolate day.
  Since 'twas ordered that death should enthrall what was loved,
  Oh, would that the field should have witnessed his fall;
  Not sickness, which comes like a thief in the night,
  For valor gives laurels; disease but the pall.

  Wilmore, Pa.  By Mollie