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"Very Ill. --Benjamin Brightbill is ill at his residence in the Third ward. Today his condition is very bad. He is unable to lie down and is compelled to sit up all the time."--25 Jan 1889, Carlisle (PA) Weekly Herald.

"Last of a Large Family. The funeral of the late Benjamin Brightbill, which occurred at Carlisle yesterday, consigned to earth the last of a once well-known and highly respected Dauphin county family. The father of this family, Henry Brightbill, resided for many years in Susquehanna township, about four miles from Harrisburg, and within a very short distance of Fox's old time grist mill. Henry Brightbill was as correct a man, hard working and reliable in all his dealings as ever held the handles of a plow or swung the scythe in a clover field. His family consisted of three sons and three daughters, named;: Henry, John and Benjamin, Mrs. Jacob Garman, Mrs. Jacob Shultz and Mrs. Daniel L. Ferree, all of whom are now dead, after as useful lives as that lived by any family whose origin began in Dauphin county, the last of whom, Benjamin having been a man of strict integrity and useful qualifications. The descendants of the sturdy Brightbill family may well be proud of their ancestry, for it is without blemish or imperfection in what makes proper people."--2 Mar 1889, Carlisle (PA) Weekly Herald

"Burial of Benjamin Brightbill. The funeral of Benjamin Brightbill took place from the residence of his daughters on West Main street this afternoon. The interment was in the old graveyard. Rev. Yocum, pastor of the Methodist church, conducted the serviced."--1 Mar 1889, Carlisle (PA) Weekly Herald

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"JOSEPH C. DELORME --Joseph C. Delorme, 89, formerly of Dorset St., South Burlington, died in a local hospital yesterday after a short illness. For the last few years he had lived at 243 N. Prospect St., Burlington.
He leaves two sons, Wilfred M and Alfred A., both of South Burlington; five daughters, Mrs. Mae Sloat of Miami, Fla., Mrs. Oscar Waterlund of Rutland, Mrs. Helen Ouellette of San Francisco, Calif., and Mrs. Frank Leebrick of Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Earl LaVallee of Burlington; 22 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren; also several nieces and nephews.
The body will be at the A. Boucher and Son Funeral Home, 169 North St., until the funeral Monday at 9 a.m. in St. John Vianney Church, South Burlington. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery. Rene G. Boucher in charge of arrangements."--The Burlington (VT) Free Press

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Note N4062 Index

Philadelphia Pennsylvania Death Certificates Index gives birthplace as Philadelphia.

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Note N4063 Index

"A FORTUNE FOR CHARITY.--About two years ago Mr. William P. Wilstach, a rich Philadelphia merchant, died, leaving an estate worth about $1,100,000. By the terms of his will, he left half of this sum to his wife for her sole separate use, and the other half to his daughter Anne Gertrude, then a minor, who was to come into possession of it when she should attain the twenty-first year of her age, on March 21, 1874. In case of her death before that time, however, the share which sh would otherwise have received was to go to certain public institutions and charities of the City of Philadelphia. Mis Wilstach has just died, and consequently the $500,000 bequeathed to her will go to the institutions and charities named by the fathers will."--4 Jun 1873, Wyoming Democrat (Tunkhannock, PA)

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Note N4064 Index

Last name sometimes spelled Knopp.

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Note N4066 Index

Find-a-grave gives birth year as 1751 and death place as Adams county, PA

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Note N4067 Index

"Dr. True Died Suddenly. The Rev. Edward Hyde True, rector of the Episcopaol church of the Prince of Peace, at Gettysburg, and also pastor of St. George's Episcopal congregation, Hanover, died suddenly at 11 o'clock Thursday night at his home in Gettysburg from heart disease, aged 71 years. Dr. True was twice married--the second time on June 4th last, when he was wedded to Mrs. Elizabeth Fritchey, widow of A.H. Fritchey, of Lancaster. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, Clarence and Herbert True of New York City.....Dr. True was in his usual health and had been up town during the early part of the evening. There was no sign that anything was wrong until he prepared to retire for the night when he complained of shortness of breath. He went tot he window for air and then managed to reach his bed. He grew rapdily worse and died before medical aid could reach him."--25 Jul 1907, New Oxford (PA) Item