Friday, August 8, 2008

Obituary Notes.

New York, 1895

William Revere, a veteran of the battle of Gettysburg, died at his home in Patchogue Sunday morning. For nine months he was in Libby prison, where he contracted a disease which developed into rheumatism and afterward into Bright's disease, of which he died.

George W. Thompson, proprietor of the trout pond at Noyac, near Sag Harbor, died Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. He was 65 years old.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 1.

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