Obits, ANDREW BALDY 1888, Northumberland County, PA

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>From the Northumberland County Democrat, page one, Friday, May 18, 1888
 
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DEATH IN THE CREEK
 
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ANDREW BALDY FOUND DROWNED 
IN A FEW INCHES OF WATER.
 
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Attending to his Duties at the Market, he
  Complained of His Head, Falls Upon the
  Street, Goes to the Creek to Wash, and
  Meets Death.
 
 
  Andrew Baldy, janitor of the Shamokin
market, was drowned Tuesday morning
between the hour of 11 o'clock and noon.
When found he was lying face down in
Shamokin creek on the west side of Eighth
street bridge, near the north street approach.
Although the body was still warm when
found, all efforts to restore him were fruit-
less.
  A short time before the unfortunate oc-
curence, Mr. Baldy while engaged in
cleaning up the gutters of the debris left by
the market wagons stumbled and fell in
front of the opera house.  It is supposed he
then went to the creek for the purpose of
washing himself, and the bank being quite
steep, fell forward and was unable to ex-
tricate himself.  There was not depth of
water enough to cover the back of his head,
but when the body was found the face was
buried in the mud.  There is a bruise on
the forehead, indicating that he struck his
head against some hard substance in the bot-
tom of the creek, which may have rendered
him unconscious.  The man complained
of being unwell in the morning while on
duty, saying his head felt heavy and queer.
  Andrew Baldy was born in Geneva, N.Y.,
February 3, 1829, and was consequently in
the fifty-ninth year of his age.  He had
been a resident of Shamokin for nearly a
quarter of a century, having previously
lived for many years in this city while he
was an engineer on the Northern Central
railroad.  He leaves a wife and four chil-
dren, the youngest a boy of 12.  The de-
ceased was a brother of Thomas Baldy,
foreman of car inspectors in P. & E. yard,
and also of Mrs. William Hoover, Mrs. John
Fisher and Mrs. William Goodrich, of this
place, and Mrs. John Bourne, of Topeka,
Kansas.  The funeral took place in this
city from the Reading railroad station, on
the arrival of the 11 17 train Thursday
morning.