Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-11-06
WRETCHFD IN HIS WEALTH.

Benjamin Wisener, formerly of the
neighbOrhood of Barnesville, was found
dead in Oak Street Park, Oakland, Cali
fOrnia, week before last. An Associated
Press dispatch from San Francisco, on the
3Oth ult., gives the follow concerning the
life and death of the curious wanderer:
There arrived from Ohio last night an
old man with white beard and silver
locks, who at once proceeded to the
Coroners Office in Oakland. He was
John Wisener. the brother of the old man
who was found dead on a bench in the
Oak Street Park. WiSener had come all
the way from Ohio to bury his brother,
whose body had been embalmed awaiting
his arrival. He did not talk very much,
but told the story of the last time he had
seen his brother.
There were three of us" he said, land
L am all there is left of the family. Isaac
died about year ago, and now Ben is
dead"
Evidently the deceased was a wanderer
for his brother said that it was over
seventeen years ago when he left the
quiet little old farm near BarneSville,
and had started out on his wanderings
For eight years they had never heard a
word from him, and never knew whether
he was alive or dead. Where he went or
how he lived no one knew. One day they
got a letter from him. and it was post
marked Oakland. Since that time they
had heard from him occasionally, but he
had never told them of his wandering nor
any thing about his life. They had fire.
quently asked him to return home and
spend the rest of his days under the old
family roof, but he had always refused,
prefering to live his wandering, cheerleSs,
homeless life. He never married, though
he was 6S years old at the time of his
death.
An investigation into the life of the
deceased in Oakland reveals the fact that
he was miSer of the worst description.
He possessed some $4,000 in United
States bonds and money at the bank, and
yet he lived in the utmost poverty. He
occupied little room in the attic of q
house Ou Fifth street. The house itself
was of the most wretched description,
standing on the edge OF marsh. He Oc-
cupied sort of small room partitioned
off from the rest of the attic by rough
boards, destitute of paper or plaster.
The interior of the room was distressing
in its squalor and emptiness. In one
corner was a cot, but it could not be
rough unplaned boards nailed together
On this was an old worn mattress filled
with fine shavings, and one pillow stuffed
with the same material. Over the whole
was spread single tattered blanket. |
The outlook was as dreary as the interior, |
and nothing but stretches of ill-Smelling
marsh greeted the eye from the curtain !
less window under the roof. That was
where the pOssessOr of $4,000 slept and |
ate, for he did all his own cooking on a
little oil stove in one corner. Last spring |
he lived in little Outhouse at the Jute
mills, where he paid no rent. Then he |
moved to East Oakland, where he paid |
81 a month, but that was too much and |
he moved to these quarters, for which he |
paid 81 month. And he died alone |
upon "a bench in public park.
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