OBIT: Louis E. BENDER, 1880, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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TYRONE TOPICS.
DEATH OF A NOTED CITIZEN.

  Louis E. Bender, for the last eighteen years a resident of Tyrone, 
died of dropsy on Friday last, after an illness of several months, aged 
54 years.  Although deprived of his sight about twenty-five years ago 
he has been the sole manager of his former earnings which through his 
careful investment and economy have accumulated to about eight thousand 
dollars, left to his widow and a son and daughter.  It is said of him 
that when a youth, having been duped by a fur company in whose 
interests he traded with the Indians, he joined a tribe of Comanche 
Indians, and for three years was excluded from civilization and became 
a veritable nomad.  One day when the tribe was near the eastern 
Missouri line, he knocked one of the braves down, the brave having 
insulted the chief.  Bender thought to win favor by avenging the 
insult.  But the chief, instead of taking kindly to it, was enraged, 
and fearing violence, he took advantage of the first opportunity and 
escaped.  Prior to taking up his residence at Tyrone he was a resident 
of Hollidaysburg.  He was buried yesterday.

Morning Tribune, Monday, January 12, 1880