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NATIVE OF ENTERPRISE IS FATALLY INJURED
A.B. Blystone, Aged 74, Struck by Automobile in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Succumbs.
Word was received in this city yesterday of the death of A.B. Blystone, a native of Enterprise, who was fatally injured when struck by an automobile at a street corner in St. Petersburg, Fla., last Saturday evening between 9 and 10 o'clock. He died at the Mound Park hospital at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning, having been terribly injured. Both legs were broken, his body cut and bruised and he was injured internally. The driver of the car that run Mr. Blystone down, has not been apprehended. It was stated that he disregarded the traffic signal lights and was driving rapidly. After striking the aged man, he turned off the lights of his machine and made his excape in the traffic. Bird Blystone as he was known to his friends, spent his boyhood at Enterprise and later went to Buffalo, N.Y., where he was a member of the police force for 27 years having retired on pension. He was 74 years of age and spent the winters in Florida for his health. He is survived by one son, Harry Blystone of Albany, N.Y., and a sister, Mrs. S. A. Peiffer of Enterprise with whom he usually spent several weeks every summer. His wife is dead and is buried in Meadville cemetery. (The Titusville Herald, Titusville, PA, Thursday morning, December 12, 1929, p. 5, Col. 4)
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NATIVE OF ENTERPRISE IS FATALLY INJURED
A.B. Blystone, Aged 74, Struck by Automobile in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Succumbs.
Word was received in this city yesterday of the death of A.B. Blystone, a native of Enterprise, who was fatally injured when struck by an automobile at a street corner in St. Petersburg, Fla., last Saturday evening between 9 and 10 o'clock. He died at the Mound Park hospital at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning, having been terribly injured. Both legs were broken, his body cut and bruised and he was injured internally. The driver of the car that run Mr. Blystone down, has not been apprehended. It was stated that he disregarded the traffic signal lights and was driving rapidly. After striking the aged man, he turned off the lights of his machine and made his excape in the traffic. Bird Blystone as he was known to his friends, spent his boyhood at Enterprise and later went to Buffalo, N.Y., where he was a member of the police force for 27 years having retired on pension. He was 74 years of age and spent the winters in Florida for his health. He is survived by one son, Harry Blystone of Albany, N.Y., and a sister, Mrs. S. A. Peiffer of Enterprise with whom he usually spent several weeks every summer. His wife is dead and is buried in Meadville cemetery. (The Titusville Herald, Titusville, PA, Thursday morning, December 12, 1929, p. 5, Col. 4)
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ALBERT B.
BLYSTONE
1855 - 1929
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Burial in Meadville, PA, Dec. 12, 1929.
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