OBIT: Michael W. SHEEHAN, 1903, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Michael W. Sheehan

  Michael W. Sheehan, who made his home with his sister, Mrs. John 
Gibbon at the Bolton House on Bridge Street, Altoona, died Saturday 
morning at 5:20 at the hospital in that place of congestion of the 
brain.  Ever since the death of his brother, the Rev. Father C. 
Sheehan, who died at Ashville, Sunday, November 1st, he was in ill 
health and on the following Thursday he was taken to the above 
institution for treatment.  The deceased was born in Ireland and was 
twenty-two years and eight months old.  He came to America and to 
Altoona many years ago and was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company, first as a brakeman and later as a caller on the Pittsburg 
division. He is survived by four sisters, two of whom are Sisters of 
Mercy in a convent in Pittsburg, Mrs. Gibbon and Miss Bride Sheehan of 
Ashville. 

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Friday, November 20, 1903