OBIT: James T. HOUSEMAN, 1917, Alexandria, Huntingdon County, PA

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JAMES T. HOUSEMAN.

Special to the Tribune.
  Alexandria, Feb. 18. - At his residence in Alexandria, James T. 
Houseman died at 1 o'clock Saturday morning of diseases incident to old 
age.  Mr. Houseman was born at Birmingham, September 23, 1837.  On 
August 9, 1863, he enlisted in Company B, Thirteenth Pennsylvania 
cavalry.  He was twice captured and twice exchanged.  After the first 
capture he was in Andersonville prison for six months.  On exchange his 
health was broken and he was furloughed home and had a two month siege 
of fever.  He then returned to the front and was again captured and 
spent six months in Libby prison.  After his second exchange, he served 
until mustered out at Raleigh, N.C., July 14, 1865.  Mr. Houseman is 
survived by one son, Harry, at home, and one sister, Mrs. Catherine 
Kauffman, with whom he made his home; also one brother, Samuel, of 
Alexandria.  His wife died twenty years ago.
  He had been a member of the Church of the Brethren at Huntingdon for 
several years and in that faith he lived and died.  The funeral service 
will be held at his home at 2 o'clock this afternoon.  Interment in the 
Presbyterian cemetery here.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, February 19, 1917