Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, June 12, 1908 Volume 42, Number 24 Death from 50 Years Ago Obituary – Died at the residence of his father in Munster Township, in Thursday the 3d inst., John C. Luckett, aged 28 years. When the young are stricken down in the flower of manhood, no consolation is sufficient to assuage the pangs of grief except certain consciousness that their lives have been well spent and a rational hope that they have exchanged this world’s trials and troubles for the ever lasting bliss of the roseate bowers of eternity. Free from the vices of the world and possessing a gentle and generous disposition, the subject of this note was always a favorite, admired for his many manly virtues, he passed through life without a stain upon his name or a blot upon his honor. May he rest in peace. 1908 Deaths Death of Mrs. John Sauter Blanche, wife of John Sauter of Patton, died at the home of her father – Philip Detrick in Carroll Township on Monday last of tuberculosis, aged twenty-six years. The deceased lady was a niece of Landlord Michael Stoltz of this place. She contracted tuberculosis a couple of years ago and was for quite a while a patient in Dr. Flick’s White Haven Hospital, but a couple of weeks ago after her malady was found to be incurable, she came home to die. Besides her husband, one child, a boy two years old – the parents of Mrs. Sauter, her brothers - Edwin and William of Altoona – and her sisters – Marie and Marguarite, at home, survive. The funeral took place on Monday last after a high mass of requiem in St. Benedict’s church, Carrolltown. Interment in cemetery nearby. Captain McDonald Mourns Death of His Comrade Thomas Van Irwin of Mifflintown Passes Away Captain Morgan McDonald of this place recently received a marked paper from Mifflintown containing an account of the death of an old comrade, Thomas Van Irwin, for forty years cashier of the Juniata National Bank of Mifflintown, Penna. Thomas Van Irwin enlisted January 1, 1864 in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry commanded by his uncle, Col. Wm. Bell Irwin and was at the latter’s request enrolled in Company M of that regiment of which Captain Morgan McDonald was the commanding officer and was taken prisoner in the summer of 1864 but escaped from prison. The deceased was well known by many Johnstowners. The Irwin and Bell families from whom he was descended were two of the foremost families of Central Pennsylvania.