Civil War Veteran
Co. D, 11th Ind. Cav.
B.F. CASSIDY FUNERAL HELD THIS AFTERNOON;
Benjamin Franklin Cassidy died at his home on North Boundary early Tuesday morning. He had been in poor health for several years. He recently took the flu, which was followed by a paralytic stroke and for a week before his death was unconscious most of the time. Mr. Cassidy was eighty-one years old and had lived in Anadarko since the opening, at which time he bought a lot. He was one of the thinning ranks of the G.A.R. and a man respected and held in high esteem by all who knew him.
He was born in a minister's humble home in Shelby county, Kentucky, on January 16, 1845. He was named after the great preacher Benjamin Franklin. In this pioneer home, school opportunities were limited, but he was educated in the school of hazardous experience.
When 16 years old, he was sworn in as a government scout and dispatch carrier at Camp Dick Robinson, Ky., and served in this position for ten months.
At the close of this service he went to Indiana and enlisted in the Indiana Home Guard and remained in this service until the day he enlisted in the U.S. Service at Terra Haute, his county seat on Oct. 1, 1863. He entered as a private of Company D, 11th Regiment, Ind. Vol. Cavalry, under Capt. C.A. Goodwin and Col. R.R. Stewart to serve three years during the war. He helped to pursue Hood as far as Gravelly Springs, Ala., and crossing the Tennessee River to Eastport, Miss., remaining there until May 12, 1865, when he was sent to St. Louis, Mo., and did duty in Missouri and Kansas until ordered to Indianapolis, Ind., for the purpose of being mustered out. He was honorably discharged at Evansville, Ind. on May 26, 1865.
During the year following the war he met and won Tabitha Pane Mosby Bolin to be his bride on March 11, 1866. To this union six children, five girls and one boy, were born, four of whom proceeded him into the glory land. Soon after his marriage he moved to Missouri and came from there to Anadarko a few days before the opening and purchased one of the first lots sold at auction and built his own home and lived there until his departure on March 31, 1926 at 2 a.m. for this home not built with hands, but eternal in the Heavens.
At the age of 20 he gave himself to Christ at the Union Church, five miles southeast of Terra Haute, Ind., and continued a faithful member of his church. On coming to Anadarko he aligned himself with those of like faith and therefore became a charter member of this congregation. He labored in the putting up of the first and second houses of worship, and rejoiced greatly to see the Educational building recently erected.
To know Benjamin Franklin Cassidy was to be his friend. He loved everybody.
He not only leaves two daughters, Mrs. Eva Buckley of Peru, Ind., who came and tenderly cared for her father, and Mrs. Laura Mosley of Anadarko, and other relatives mourn his going, but a multitude of friends who will constantly feel the loss of a real friend.
Funeral services will be held at the Christian Church, with full military honors accorded him on Thursday, April 1st at 2 p.m., Frank W. Beach, officiating. J.H. Farmer Funeral Home will direct the service."
Co. D, 11th Ind. Cav.
B.F. CASSIDY FUNERAL HELD THIS AFTERNOON;
Benjamin Franklin Cassidy died at his home on North Boundary early Tuesday morning. He had been in poor health for several years. He recently took the flu, which was followed by a paralytic stroke and for a week before his death was unconscious most of the time. Mr. Cassidy was eighty-one years old and had lived in Anadarko since the opening, at which time he bought a lot. He was one of the thinning ranks of the G.A.R. and a man respected and held in high esteem by all who knew him.
He was born in a minister's humble home in Shelby county, Kentucky, on January 16, 1845. He was named after the great preacher Benjamin Franklin. In this pioneer home, school opportunities were limited, but he was educated in the school of hazardous experience.
When 16 years old, he was sworn in as a government scout and dispatch carrier at Camp Dick Robinson, Ky., and served in this position for ten months.
At the close of this service he went to Indiana and enlisted in the Indiana Home Guard and remained in this service until the day he enlisted in the U.S. Service at Terra Haute, his county seat on Oct. 1, 1863. He entered as a private of Company D, 11th Regiment, Ind. Vol. Cavalry, under Capt. C.A. Goodwin and Col. R.R. Stewart to serve three years during the war. He helped to pursue Hood as far as Gravelly Springs, Ala., and crossing the Tennessee River to Eastport, Miss., remaining there until May 12, 1865, when he was sent to St. Louis, Mo., and did duty in Missouri and Kansas until ordered to Indianapolis, Ind., for the purpose of being mustered out. He was honorably discharged at Evansville, Ind. on May 26, 1865.
During the year following the war he met and won Tabitha Pane Mosby Bolin to be his bride on March 11, 1866. To this union six children, five girls and one boy, were born, four of whom proceeded him into the glory land. Soon after his marriage he moved to Missouri and came from there to Anadarko a few days before the opening and purchased one of the first lots sold at auction and built his own home and lived there until his departure on March 31, 1926 at 2 a.m. for this home not built with hands, but eternal in the Heavens.
At the age of 20 he gave himself to Christ at the Union Church, five miles southeast of Terra Haute, Ind., and continued a faithful member of his church. On coming to Anadarko he aligned himself with those of like faith and therefore became a charter member of this congregation. He labored in the putting up of the first and second houses of worship, and rejoiced greatly to see the Educational building recently erected.
To know Benjamin Franklin Cassidy was to be his friend. He loved everybody.
He not only leaves two daughters, Mrs. Eva Buckley of Peru, Ind., who came and tenderly cared for her father, and Mrs. Laura Mosley of Anadarko, and other relatives mourn his going, but a multitude of friends who will constantly feel the loss of a real friend.
Funeral services will be held at the Christian Church, with full military honors accorded him on Thursday, April 1st at 2 p.m., Frank W. Beach, officiating. J.H. Farmer Funeral Home will direct the service."
Civil War Veteran
Co. D, 11th Ind. Cav.
B.F. CASSIDY FUNERAL HELD THIS AFTERNOON;
Benjamin Franklin Cassidy died at his home on North Boundary early Tuesday morning. He had been in poor health for several years. He recently took the flu, which was followed by a paralytic stroke and for a week before his death was unconscious most of the time. Mr. Cassidy was eighty-one years old and had lived in Anadarko since the opening, at which time he bought a lot. He was one of the thinning ranks of the G.A.R. and a man respected and held in high esteem by all who knew him.
He was born in a minister's humble home in Shelby county, Kentucky, on January 16, 1845. He was named after the great preacher Benjamin Franklin. In this pioneer home, school opportunities were limited, but he was educated in the school of hazardous experience.
When 16 years old, he was sworn in as a government scout and dispatch carrier at Camp Dick Robinson, Ky., and served in this position for ten months.
At the close of this service he went to Indiana and enlisted in the Indiana Home Guard and remained in this service until the day he enlisted in the U.S. Service at Terra Haute, his county seat on Oct. 1, 1863. He entered as a private of Company D, 11th Regiment, Ind. Vol. Cavalry, under Capt. C.A. Goodwin and Col. R.R. Stewart to serve three years during the war. He helped to pursue Hood as far as Gravelly Springs, Ala., and crossing the Tennessee River to Eastport, Miss., remaining there until May 12, 1865, when he was sent to St. Louis, Mo., and did duty in Missouri and Kansas until ordered to Indianapolis, Ind., for the purpose of being mustered out. He was honorably discharged at Evansville, Ind. on May 26, 1865.
During the year following the war he met and won Tabitha Pane Mosby Bolin to be his bride on March 11, 1866. To this union six children, five girls and one boy, were born, four of whom proceeded him into the glory land. Soon after his marriage he moved to Missouri and came from there to Anadarko a few days before the opening and purchased one of the first lots sold at auction and built his own home and lived there until his departure on March 31, 1926 at 2 a.m. for this home not built with hands, but eternal in the Heavens.
At the age of 20 he gave himself to Christ at the Union Church, five miles southeast of Terra Haute, Ind., and continued a faithful member of his church. On coming to Anadarko he aligned himself with those of like faith and therefore became a charter member of this congregation. He labored in the putting up of the first and second houses of worship, and rejoiced greatly to see the Educational building recently erected.
To know Benjamin Franklin Cassidy was to be his friend. He loved everybody.
He not only leaves two daughters, Mrs. Eva Buckley of Peru, Ind., who came and tenderly cared for her father, and Mrs. Laura Mosley of Anadarko, and other relatives mourn his going, but a multitude of friends who will constantly feel the loss of a real friend.
Funeral services will be held at the Christian Church, with full military honors accorded him on Thursday, April 1st at 2 p.m., Frank W. Beach, officiating. J.H. Farmer Funeral Home will direct the service."
Co. D, 11th Ind. Cav.
B.F. CASSIDY FUNERAL HELD THIS AFTERNOON;
Benjamin Franklin Cassidy died at his home on North Boundary early Tuesday morning. He had been in poor health for several years. He recently took the flu, which was followed by a paralytic stroke and for a week before his death was unconscious most of the time. Mr. Cassidy was eighty-one years old and had lived in Anadarko since the opening, at which time he bought a lot. He was one of the thinning ranks of the G.A.R. and a man respected and held in high esteem by all who knew him.
He was born in a minister's humble home in Shelby county, Kentucky, on January 16, 1845. He was named after the great preacher Benjamin Franklin. In this pioneer home, school opportunities were limited, but he was educated in the school of hazardous experience.
When 16 years old, he was sworn in as a government scout and dispatch carrier at Camp Dick Robinson, Ky., and served in this position for ten months.
At the close of this service he went to Indiana and enlisted in the Indiana Home Guard and remained in this service until the day he enlisted in the U.S. Service at Terra Haute, his county seat on Oct. 1, 1863. He entered as a private of Company D, 11th Regiment, Ind. Vol. Cavalry, under Capt. C.A. Goodwin and Col. R.R. Stewart to serve three years during the war. He helped to pursue Hood as far as Gravelly Springs, Ala., and crossing the Tennessee River to Eastport, Miss., remaining there until May 12, 1865, when he was sent to St. Louis, Mo., and did duty in Missouri and Kansas until ordered to Indianapolis, Ind., for the purpose of being mustered out. He was honorably discharged at Evansville, Ind. on May 26, 1865.
During the year following the war he met and won Tabitha Pane Mosby Bolin to be his bride on March 11, 1866. To this union six children, five girls and one boy, were born, four of whom proceeded him into the glory land. Soon after his marriage he moved to Missouri and came from there to Anadarko a few days before the opening and purchased one of the first lots sold at auction and built his own home and lived there until his departure on March 31, 1926 at 2 a.m. for this home not built with hands, but eternal in the Heavens.
At the age of 20 he gave himself to Christ at the Union Church, five miles southeast of Terra Haute, Ind., and continued a faithful member of his church. On coming to Anadarko he aligned himself with those of like faith and therefore became a charter member of this congregation. He labored in the putting up of the first and second houses of worship, and rejoiced greatly to see the Educational building recently erected.
To know Benjamin Franklin Cassidy was to be his friend. He loved everybody.
He not only leaves two daughters, Mrs. Eva Buckley of Peru, Ind., who came and tenderly cared for her father, and Mrs. Laura Mosley of Anadarko, and other relatives mourn his going, but a multitude of friends who will constantly feel the loss of a real friend.
Funeral services will be held at the Christian Church, with full military honors accorded him on Thursday, April 1st at 2 p.m., Frank W. Beach, officiating. J.H. Farmer Funeral Home will direct the service."
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