OBIT: Billy DUNN, 1879, Huntingdon County, PA

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DEATH OF GENERAL BILLY DUNN.

  General Billy Dunn, a well-known character of this place, died at the 
almshouse one day this week.  It will be remembered by the reader that 
Huntingdon was inflicted [sic] with small pox during the winter of 1877, and 
Billy was so unfortunate as to "catch it," and his shanty and all its 
contents on cemetery hill were destroyed, with all its summer's gather of 
bones - he making a livelihood by selling bones.  Like poor old Jimmy Walls, 
he was an outcast upon society, but then he did not have any real estate to 
be gobbled up by the lawyers.

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

  William Dunn, a well-known resident of Huntingdon, died in the almshouse 
on Monday night.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Saturday, December 6, 1879