OBIT: Mark BURGOON, 1880, Allegheny Township, Cambria County, PA

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Morning Tribune
Altoona, Pa.
Wednesday, 28 Jan 1880


Killed by a Falling Tree.

About 8 o'clock on Monday morning Mark Burgoon, a young man 22 years 
of age, was killed at D. & C. Moore's mill, near Ashland Furnace, by a 
tree falling on him.  Mr. Louis Burgoon and his two sons, Mark and 
John, had taken a contract of cutting logs for the Messrs. Moore, and 
on Saturday had felled a tree between two trees grown closely together 
and left it until Monday morning, when John began chopping one of the 
trees to allow the other one to drop, while his brother Mark was 
trimming one some distance away.  The tree dropping before it was 
expected to fell, striking into the forks of a tall maple tree near by 
splitting it to the ground, throwing it in the contrary direction and 
near where Mark Burgoon was working.  He, seeing his danger, ran to get 
out of the way of the maple but unfortunately ran in the wrong 
direction, and the maple struck him on the back and hips, crushing him 
into the hard earth and killing him almost instantly.  Mr. Burgoon was 
a sober, industrious, good citizen and his loss will be severely felt 
by his bereaved parents.



1870 Allegheny Township, Cambria County census -
Lewis Burgoon, 48 
Mary I. Burgoon, 40 
Albon [Allen?] Burgoon, 20 
Mark Burgoon, 14 
John Burgoon, 12 
Mariah Burgoon, 6 
Ida Burgoon, 4 
Anna Burgoon, 9/12