Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, February 21, 1908 Volume 42, Number 7 Deaths from 50 Years Ago “Died” at Cattawissa, Pa. on Friday the 12th, inst., Mr. David Ritter, aged about 63 years. The deceased lived for many years in this community. He built and owned Eliza Furnace on the Blacklick and was well and favorably known in this community. Eliza Furnace is still standing on the outskirts of Vintondale. George J. Rodgers of Ebensburg was associated with Ritter in buying the land on which the furnace was built, but withdrawing from the partnership, a man named Irvin of Huntingdon County became associated with Ritter in the enterprise. The furnace was finished in 1846, at which time ex-sheriff John A. Blair of Ebensburg worked at building a boarding house near the furnace. Isaac Crawford put up the bellows on the fanhouse. The venture was not remunerative, the pig metal having to be hauled through Dilltown, Indiana County, to the canal at Nineveh for shipment to Pittsburg. Some of it was hauled to Hollidaysburg. Financial embarrassment followed, brooding over which, Irvin hanged himself on his farm in Huntingdon County. Ritter continued the business until it was finally abandoned in 1847. To the Vinton Colliery Company is due the credit of preserving this old landmark as a monument to the iron industry of the Northern Cambria. 1908 Deaths Another Soisson Child Dead Allie Soisson, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Soisson of St. Nicholas, died Wednesday Feb. 5 after an illness of about six weeks. Death was due to an abscess of the lungs, caused by pneumonia, for which an operation was performed but no relief came for the patient. Deceased was in his ninth year and will be greatly missed by all members of the family. He was the second child of the family to pass away for his little sister, Edith, died from the same disease the week previous. Funeral services were held in the Catholic church at St. Nicholas, after which interment was made in the church cemetery at that place. Charles Gaboda Charles Gaboda of Vintondale died in Johnstown Wednesday after a short illness with pneumonia. He was 37 years of age. The remains were shipped to the home of a surviving brother who resides in Vintondale. Death of James A. Bagley Mr. James A. Bagley of Eleventh Avenue, Altoona, a brother of Mrs. Thomas Peach of this place, died at his home in that city on Tuesday last of pneumonia, aged 60 years. His wife nee Miss Agnes Cunningham and six children, the youngest fifteen years of age, survive him. The funeral of the deceased took place after a high mass of requiem in St. John’s church this morning at 10 o’clock. Samuel Morris Samuel Morris of Coalport was drowned while attempting to cross Clearfield Creek on McGough’s bridge above Frugality on Saturday evening last in a buggy, the horse attached to which was found drowned on Sunday morning which led to a search and the finding of the body on Monday morning. Morris leaves a wife and several children living in Coalport. The funeral took place on Wednesday in St. Augustine. John B. Daley The mangled remains of John B. Daley, a prominent resident of Lilly, were found about 7 o’clock Saturday evening some 300 yards east of Benscreek station. He was identified by a book found on his person and his body was later removed to his home by Undertaker Lowery. The manner in which Mr. Daley met his death is not known but it is thought he was hit by a train while walking along the tracks towards his home. The funeral took place Tuesday. George Glasser Michael Endler and Anthony Burkhart returned home Monday from attending the funeral of George Glasser who died recently in Wilkes-Barre. Johnstown, Pa., Feb. 20 Blinded by a snowstorm, Mahomet Farl, age twenty-five, an Arabian and [Ahlas] Pitzkalli, age twenty-two, a Hebrew, were struck by a train near Witmer and instantly killed. Ahlas’s body was cut into several pieces. The men lived at Portage.