OBIT: Jacob C. BOOB, 1937, Mifflinburg, Union County, PA

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J. C. Boob Dies at 92 At Hospital
Kidney Condition Fatal to Mifflinburg Veteran.  Cataract Removal Had 
Restored Vision Short Time Before

  Sight came too late to Jacob C. Boob, 92-year-old Civil War veteran 
of Mifflinburg, who died in the Williamsport Hospital at noon Saturday 
of a kidney condition after a cataract operation had restored vision in 
eye.
  The aged veteran stood the eye operation well and was apparently 
recovering when a kidney condition from which he had suffered for 
several years caused his death.
  Bandages were removed from his eyes, which had been totally blinded 
by cataracts, several days ago.  He was too sick, the physicians said, 
to appreciate the sight for which he had longed.
  For 20 years following his return from the Civil War, Mr. Boob was 
proprietor of a retail clothing business and later he owned a tobacco 
shop in Mifflinburg.
  Mr. Boob, who enlisted in Co. #, 51st Pennsylvania Volunteers, at the 
age of 18, was wounded in the Battle of Vicksburg.
  He was a member of Mifflinburg Lodge No. 370, F. and A. M.  A 
daughter, Mrs. Virginia B. Guler, of Mifflinburg, and a brother, W. W. 
Boob, of Akron, Ohio, survive.
  Funeral services will be held at 2 30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in 
St. John's Reformed Church with burial in the Mifflinburg Cemetery.

Gazette and Bulletin, Williamsport, Pa., Monday, December 20, 1937