OBIT: Alexander SHORTESS, 1897, Centre Township, Perry County, PA
  
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  HAD RELATIVES IN ALTOONA.
  
    From the New Bloomfield Advocate and Press we learn that on last Monday 
  evening Mr. Alexander Shortess died of heart trouble, of which he had long 
  been a sufferer, at his home in Centre township, Perry county.  He was aged 
  59 years.  The Advocate and Press gives the following additional particulars:  
  Deceased was a son of the late Thomas Shortess by his third wife, and had 
  been a resident of Centre township all his days.  He was married to a Miss 
  Isabel Toland, of Allen's Cove, Penn township, this county, his wife 
  preceding him to the spirit world March 4, 1888; no children resulted from 
  this union.  He is survived by Rev. S. I. Shortess, of East Point, Tioga 
  county, Pa., and Mrs. B. F. Clegg, of Altoona, Pa.  In the war of the 
  rebellion Mr. Shortess enlisted under Captain James H. Marshall, in company 
  I, Two Hundred and Eighth Pennsylvania volunteers on August 31, 1864, and was 
  discharged by general order on May 30, 1865.  He was a member of Sergeant 
  John Jones post, No. 448, Grand Army of the Republic, of this place, and at 
  the time of his death was its senior vice commander.  He had been a 
  consistent member of the Presbyterian church for years.
  
  Morning Tribune, Altoona, September 15, 1897, page 6