OBIT: James HAMILTON, Sr., 1863, Conemaugh Borough, Cambria County, PA

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Democratic Standard
Hollidaysburg, Pa.
Wednesday, November 25, 1863  

KILLED BY A FALL - James Hamilton, Sr., (shoemaker) a resident of 
Conemaugh Borough, Cambria co., was killed near Penn Stadt., 
Westmoreland county, on the 14th inst., by falling over a culbert 
[culvert] on the railroad. He was walking on the railroad, and meeting 
a train, stepped to one side and unfortunately missed his footing and 
fell a distance of about thirty feet, causing injuries from which he 
died in about three hours.