Posted on: Blackburn Family Obituaries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/BlackburnObits?read=13 Surname: Blackburn ------------------------- >From Fort Wayne, IN Journal Gazette, 5/8/1918, p.11 BYRON BLACKBURN DIES SUDDENLY Byron Blackburn, 49 years old, died suddenly at 6:35 Tuesday morning while he was engaged in cleaning switch lamps at the Nickel Plate section gang shanty in New Haven. Death was due to arterio-sclerosis, according to the verdict of Coroner Charles J. Rothschild, of this city, who was called to make an investigation. Mr. Blackburn had resided in New Haven for some time. He leaves a wife and several children.