OBIT: Milton TURNEY, 1916, Fort Hill, Somerset County, PA

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Turney, Milton

TEACHER'S SUDDEN DEATH - Milton Turn{sic} of Fort Hill Expires Suddenly at 
Night, After Working on the Farm During the Day, Had Been a County Teacher For 
the Past Three Years. Milton Turney, aged about 21 years, a son of Jonas Turney 
of Fort Hill and who had been a school teacher for the past three years, having 
taught at Dumas for the past term, died at the home of his father on the 9th 
inst. The young man this spring after having completed his term of school was 
working on his father's farm. The day preceding the night on which he died, he 
had been assisting in the planting of potatoes. In the evening he ate a hearty 
supper and with his brothers retired to rest, in apparently the best of health. 
At about three o'clock in the morning, the brother was aroused from sleep by the 
moaning of Milton and he at once called his father, but the latter had hardly 
gotten to the bedside of the boy, before he had gasped his last breath. Two 
brothers and seven sisters survive. The funeral which was one of the largest in 
the community for years was held on last Thursday afternoon. Rev. E. B. Boyer of 
the Lutheran Church officiated. Interment was made at St. Paul's Lutheran Church 
in Addison Township.

Meyersdale Commercial, May 18, 1916