OBIT: Robert T. McGOUGH, 1919, of Cambria County, PA

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Altoona Tribune
Tuesday, January 21, 1919
page 10

ROBERT T. M'GOUGH, OF 19TH ENGINEERS, DEAD

Soldier Worker Meets Death in a Shop Accident in France on January 6

  Saddler Robert T. McGough, a member of Company B, 19th regiment, engineers, 
(railway), a former Cambria county boy, was killed in France on January 6, in 
a shop accident, according to a message received by the mother on Saturday, 
Mrs. Alice Wharton McGough, of St. Augustine, Cambria county.

  Robert T. McGough was the son of James E. McGough, deceased, and Alice 
Wharton McGough, of St. Augustine, and was born on April 19, 1874.  Previous 
to his enlistment in May, 1917, he was employed in the car shops of the 
P.R.R. at Pitcairn, as a car builder, where he was highly esteemed by his 
fellow workmen on account of his many sterling qualities. 

  When the war broke out, he tried to enlist in the army, but was rejected on 
account of the loss of a finger of the right hand.  So he finally enlisted in 
the engineers' corps, training at Philadelphia.  The same month, his brother, 
Edgar, enlisted in the 15th regiment engineers, and a brother, Raymond, in 
July of the same year in the Tenth regiment, forestry engineers.  His nephew, 
Edwin J. Kane, of this city, enlisted in the 27th regiment engineers, in 
November.

  He was a grandson of the late James McGough, and Margaret Glars McGough, 
who were among the earliest settlers at Loretto, Cambria county.  Fifteen of 
their descendants are in the various branches of the U.S. service, of which 
number fourteen are in the overseas service.

  He comes of a patriotic family, his uncles, Charles, Silas and Andrew, 
having served their county in the Civil war.  On his mother's side of the 
family, his uncle, James A. Wharton, served in the war of the Rebellion.  Two 
of the sons [sic] of the latter were among the first volunteers in the present 
war, both being wounded in action "over there."

  His mother survives, with the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Joseph 
W. Kane, of this city; Albert of Blane, Ore., George, who served four years 
in the U.S. service and now of Seattle, Washington; Mrs. Thomas Gannon, of 
Greensburg, Pa; James, of this city; Margaret, a graduate nurse now of 
Arizona; Joseph, of St. Augustine; Raymond, of Co. C, 10th regiment, France; 
Corporal Edgar V. McGough, of Co. E, 15th regiment, engineers, and Irene, a 
graduate nurse at the Altoona hospital.  The deceased was a devout member of 
the Catholic faith.