OBIT: Miller Hoffman HARSHBARGER, 1899, Cassville, Huntingdon County, PA

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Little Child Burned to Death.

Special to the Tribune.
  HUNTINGDON, Pa., July 24. - The intelligence of a sad fatality has 
just been reported from Cassville, eighteen miles from here.  Miller 
Hoffman, a 6-year-old son of George Harshbarger, of this town, had been 
making his home with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hoffman, at 
Cassville.  When the old couple arose yesterday morning they permitted 
the child to remain in bed.  Subsequently the child got awake and began 
playing with matches he found in the room.  As is frequently the case 
the apparel covering his little body at the time was set on fire and 
thus, helplessly, he was burned to a crisp.  When discovered there was 
nothing left to tell the tale save a mass of charred bones and flesh.  
The remains of the little fellow were buried to-day.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, July 25, 1899