OBIT: Marion S. LYTLE, 1888, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA

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Death in Life's Morning.

  It is with feelings of genuine sorrow that we chronicle the death of 
Marion S. Lytle, eldest son of Milton S. and Lizzie Lytle, which 
occurred at the residence of his parents, on Washington street, at an 
early hour on Saturday morning.  On the 30th of May last he entered the 
composing room of the Journal to learn the composing trade, and up 
until the early days of November, when ill health compelled him to 
cease his labors, was always at his post ready and willing to discharge 
every task assigned him.  During the early part of November he became a 
victim of typhoid fever, and after weeks of patient suffering, 
recovered from the disease and was thought to be out of danger, when he 
was again compelled to take his bed suffering from pulmonary trouble, 
which resulted in his death.  He was a young man of more than ordinary 
intelligence, and had his life been spared would have won prominence in 
the calling of his choice.  He was aged 19 years, 6 months and 2 days 
at the time of his death.  It is hard for us to realize that Marion is 
dead, but the sad truth was revealed to us on Monday afternoon as we 
followed his remains to the City of the Silent and saw them consigned 
to their final resting place.  Our young friend was summoned home in 
life's morning, just as he was budding into young manhood and when the 
future wore a rosy hue to him, but we are informed by those who watched 
by him and administered to his wants, that he was perfectly resigned to 
his fate, ready to go, when the Master called.  To the stricken family 
we tender our heartfelt sympathies in this the darkest hour of their 
lives.

The Huntingdon Journal, Huntingdon, Pa., Friday, January 27, 1888