OBIT: Barney VOGEL, 1880, Carrolltown, Cambria County, PA

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Death of a Distiller of Illicit Whisky.

  Barney Vogel, a Cambria county "moonshiner," a term which is applied 
to distillers of illicit whisky, died at Dixmont Asylum last week.  He 
was formerly a resident of Carrolltown, where he worked at his trade of 
stonemason, and afterward went into the "moonshine" business out in the 
woods near the small village of Nicktown, in Barr township.  He was 
arrested and taken to Pittsburgh to await trial, but while in jail his 
mind, weak at the best, gave entirely away and he was sent to Dixmont.  
His lunacy was of a most violent kind up until recently, when strength 
failed him, and then came the end.  The remains were taken to 
Carrolltown on Wednesday and interred in the burying-ground there.  A 
wife and three children survive the poor "moonshiner," whose life 
closed amid the saddest surroundings, as there was no friend at his 
bedside, and not a glimmering of reason in the tired brain.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, June 21, 1880