OBIT: John Gemmill CRESSWILL, 1900, native of Huntingdon County, PA

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TYRONE TOPICS.

  John Gemmill Cresswell died suddenly yesterday morning at 4 o'clock 
of heart trouble at the home of his sister, Mrs. Eliza C. Barr, at 1307 
North Washington avenue.  The deceased was born at Alexandria, 
Huntingdon county, August, 1837, and at death was aged 62 years and 7 
months.  His wife died November 14, 1898, without issue, and since 
December, 1898, he has made his home with his sister, Mrs. E. C. Barr, 
in this place.  Mr. Cresswell had been in the employ of Campbell Bros., 
contractors, of Altoona, for many years, and also for several years as 
baggagemaster on the Pennsylvania railroad.  In 1893 or 1894 he 
suffered from a sun stroke, since which time he has been physically 
incapacitated from attending to business.  On Wednesday last he 
attended the funeral obsequies of his friend, Dr. Calvin Porter, at 
Alexandria, and on Thursday was in his usual health and able to clean 
the pavement in front of his home of the accumulated snow and slush.  
He was a consistent member and a faithful attendendant at the several 
services of the Alexandria Presbyterian church, and a whole-souled, 
genial associate.  The writer first knew him as a salesman in the 
mercantile establishment of Clement Jaggard, at Altoona, in the latter 
fifties.  He is survived by one brother, Gemmill Cresswell, of 
Petersburg, Huntingdon county, and one sister, Mrs. Eliza C. Barr, of 
Tyrone.  The remains will be take to this station Monday at noon and 
placed on board mail express east, to be conveyed to Barree, and from 
thence to Alexandria, where funeral services will be held in the 
Presbyterian church, to be conducted by Rev. Albert J. Weisley and Rev. 
Mr. Stewart.  Interment to follow in the Alexandria cemetery.

Morning Tribune (Altoona), Saturday, March 3, 1900