OBIT: Hugh JOHNSON, 1880, Huntingdon County, PA

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The Death of Hugh Johnson.

  Saturday's TRIBUNE made a brief announcement of the decease of Hugh 
Johnson.  We learn the following further particulars from the 
Huntingdon News: His body was found in the waters of Shavers' Creek, 
some distance up the valley.  From information received it appears that 
he had left home on Thursday for the purpose of procuring a team that 
he might come to Huntingdon to attend his sister's wedding.  His route 
led him to cross a small foot bridge over the creek, and it is supposed 
that he was taken with a fit, or became dizzy, and fell off into the 
bed of the stream, where he was drowned.  Not appearing at the wedding, 
and the fact that he had left home to come here, caused a search to be 
made for him on Friday, which ended as above.  Deceased had been of 
weak mind for a number of years, and was upwards of 35 years of age.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, September 21, 1880