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* S. . ItftJliartesA. J. r_* viuek ,w3s filed Wertfifeafiltjr« er ’,% ii ,■ ■ 5urr t t s office,Hi -fol * leltswerajmader CThaa;• -|| lt;jg^r% Evans, $1500;y^aifijpe,,$j)00; Myrtle 'Payne,$1,00(1;' ’ -23mmer, $1,000; RuthT^lllfa^-^l.fff^'jScott Wemple, $1,-0OO; NeWe: €h£ribdimeau, $1,000; Get-tie HaU,-$l,500; RalphWemple, $1,-Mfajbte MePhilmey,' $1,500; How-;d, K^afi^ard Evans, $1,500;, Charles Brownell, $1,000; Clarence Brownell, $1,000; Sarah. Warriner, $1,000; .Jesie Mason, $1,000; Alice Ostrander, $1,000; Jessie Townsend, residue; Jes1-sie Townsend, mortgage; Richard Townsend,. $2,000; Bertha Brownell SaasEBis, $1,000; Helen Waterhouse, $500; Florence Mason Hurlbut, $500; Cora Honey, Ethel Graham, Albert Warriner, Mary Mason, Charles Mason, Robert Mason, William Warriner, each $500.bum Marriner, $500. Total $27,000.Charles A. Bennett, 90, one of Lewis county's civil war veterans, died Saturday at the Lewis County General Hospital, where he had been a patient for the past three months.He was born in Harrisburg, Feb. 16, 1846, a son of Guy and Eliza Doxtater Bennett. He was a retired farmer and !had Jived in this village for a number ’■of years. His wife, Lucy Goutremout, died in 1923. He leaves a nephew, Chas. Wemple' of this village, and a niece, Mrs. Carrie Evans, Port Leyden.When he was in his 'teens Mr. Bennett enlisted in Lowville to serve in the civil war. His company figured conspicuously in the siege and surrender of Harper's Ferry, at Cedar Creek: and Maryland Heights. He served three and one-half years in the war and carried the dispatches telliag.of the 'surrender of General Lee at the end of the war to.the army -stationed! at Maryland Heights.He is said to have seen President Lincoln pacing up and down the lawn in front of the White House, and that he paused long enough to shake hands with Mr. Bennett and his companions.After the war Mr. Bennett returned to Harrisburg, took up fanning and a little later married Miss Goutre-montThe funeral, a military service, took .plaSJe'at 2:30 p: an. Tuesday from the Baptist church, the Rev. B. D. Profio, pastor, and chaplain of Lowville Post 162, American Legion, nfiieiating.thnesqgainHithsogamenenth'siS'CisitoIywetil
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Lowville Black River Democrat
Lowville, New York, US
Thu, Jan 21, 1937
Page 5
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