OBIT: Edmund S. TROXELL, 1903, Gallitzin, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, July 17, 1903 Edmund S. Troxell, second son of Dr. J. S. and Rose Kelly Troxell, died at the home of his parents in Gallitzin at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, aged eighteen years. He injured his hip last fall and some time later the bone became diseased. In January he was taken to Philadelphia where the leg was amputated at the hip, followed by a second operation in Feb. Heart disease was superinduced by the operations and was the cause of his death. He had returned from Philadelphia on Easter. The deceased was born in Gallitzin and is survived by his parents and the following brothers and sisters, all single and at home: Raymond, Ruth, James, Maurice, Eugene, Robert, Catharine and Florence. The deceased was a timekeeper for awhile before he was injured for Contractor Brendliner of Philadelphia who is building the tunnel at Gallitzin for the P. R. R. Company. The funeral took place at 9 o'clock Monday morning from St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Gallitzin, where the Rev. Father J. J. Deasy, the pastor, celebrated requiem mass. Interment was made at Gallitzin.