OBIT: John H. WEIGHT, 1887, formerly of Huntingdon County, PA

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WEIGHT. - In Altoona, Nov. 20th, Mr. John H. Weight, in his 80th year.
  The subject of this notice came to Huntingdon county when young, and 
resided in it till within a few months of his death.  He was a man of 
industrious habits, and for many years a member of the Evangelical 
Lutheran church; an affectionate husband, an indulgent parent, a 
generous friend.  He was married twice.  By his first wife he had nine 
children, three of whom survive him.  She died in 1850.  By his second 
wife he had no children.  With her he lived for 30 years on her 
homestead in Trough Creek valley, till her death in March last.  Since 
that time he has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. S. A. Laverty, 
in Altoona, Pa., where he died calmly and peacefully after a short 
illness of lung fever, Nov. 20th.  He was buried in the Altoona 
cemetery, Nov. 22.
      W.B.P.

The Huntingdon Journal, Huntingdon, Pa., Friday, December 16, 1887