OBIT: John RHODES, 1900, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA

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HUNTINGDON, Pa., February 12. - An accident sustained last Saturday 
morning resulted in the death to-day of one of Huntingdon's 
nonogenarians [sic].  John Rhodes, who on the 10th of March would have 
passed his 91st birthday, was the unfortunate victim.  Although quite 
feeble and almost blind, Mr. Rhodes was accustomed to going about town 
without being attended, and it was while on a business mission that he 
met with the fatal accident Saturday.  The old gentleman was walking 
down Seventh street and when just below Gahagan's blacksmith shop 
wandered over the bank and stumbled into the stream known as Muddy Run.  
There was very little water in the run at the time, else the 
unfortunate old gentleman would have met death by drowning.  As it was, 
however, he struck on some sharp obstacle in the descent and when 
found, a hole was discovered clear through his lip, an ugly bruise was 
found over the left temple and his nose was broken.  Mr. Rhodes had 
lain there some time before being found, and when picked up was removed 
immediately to his home on Moore street, above Tenth, and given 
surgical attention by Dr. W. H. Boggs.  The shock was too much for him 
to withstand and he never recovered from it, dying at 2 o'clock this 
morning.
  The deceased was born at Sunbury, March 10, 1809, but had lived in 
Huntingdon and Blair counties nearly all his life.  Most of his years 
were spent in territory adjacent to Huntingdon, and the last few years 
of his life were passed in Huntingdon.  He was for several generations 
a well known farmer of Henderson township, and he made farming a 
lucrative occupation.
  Mr. Rhodes was a member of the Lutheran church and a Christian 
gentleman in the true acceptation of the term.  He was an elder in the 
church at this place at the time of his death.
  His aged wife died six years ago, and he is survived by eight of a 
family of twelve children as follows: Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, Tyrone; 
Mrs. Jemima Stewart, McKee's Rocks; Mrs. Mary Kennedy, Smithfield 
township; Lewis and Mrs. Martha Gorsuch, Huntingdon; Mrs. Hare and W. 
Blair Rhodes, Monmouth, Ill., and Myra, at home.
  His funeral will take place on Wednesday afternoon.  Funeral services 
in the Lutheran church at 2 o'clock.

Morning Tribune (Altoona), Tuesday, February 13, 1900