The Newtown bee., 1906-02-02
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SUDDEN DEATH OF ANDREW LEAvEN-
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SUDDEN DEATH OF ANDREW LEAvEN-
 Sunday morning, this quiet village was shOckeband saddened by the sud- | den and peculiar death of Andrew home about ii o'clock, Saturday night. Mir Leavenworth evidently awoke about this time and feeling hungry took his lamp and went down to his pantry to get something to eat, as he had been in the habit of doing ire While in the pantry he must either had fainting turn or in some way dropped the lamp which broke all to pieces setting the interior of the pantry on fire. Seeing the dam ger, he must have started out into his kitchen and taken large dinner bell and rang it and called for help. After this he probably fell flat on the kitch- en floor near his stove. Levi Hubbell, call for help and also heard the bell ring and hastened balow to find Mr' Leavenworth dead on the floor and the pantry all ablaze. He quickly threw some water on the fire, putting out most of it and then stepped to the door and called fire and for help. Stephen Hayes, M. B. Hawley and Fred Klein responded and helped him finish putting out the fire. But nOth- ing could be done for MT Leaven- worth as he was beyond human aid. Medical Examiner F. J. Wales Of Monroe was called and pronounced his death due to heart trouble. MT Leav- enworth was son of MT and Mrs Eli LeavenWorth and was born August IF, l840, in the Leavenwortn homestead 10vn NAnrS S0rry ruyf1H 1nh orA his boyhood. In the early days of the Civil War, he was a student at the Connecticut Literary Institute in Suf- field. He left this school to enlist as a soldier and was mustered into serv- ice August 28, 1862, in Company D, l7th Regiment. He was captured by the enemy at Charlottesville, Va, May 2, 1863, being. afterWard released upon parole and was finally discharged on account of disability, February l9, 1864, which gave him two and half years of service under the flag. James Clark, who was buried in the ceme- tery here, last week, was 8 member of the same regiment and company. There were quite a few men in this company from this place: William H. ley, William Clark, Eugene Hubbell, Edward Nichols, Henry Nichols, Ira Pentield, William Smith, John B. Wayland and James K. Taylor, with Gen w. H. Noble in command. The chief engagements of this regiment and part of the great battles of the war were at Charlottesville, May 2, '63; Gettysburg, July IA, '63; Morris Island and Fort Wagner, August, '63; Welaka and Saunders, Florida, May, '64; Demus Lake, Florida, February, '65. For number of years he was 8 county surveyor and in company with his lifelong friend, Stephen B. Hayes, assisted in preparing maps of town the east, he conducted store and meat business for considerable time, and held various offices in town man. agement. MT Leavenworth was gift ed in music and cond ucted singing schools at different times which were attended with good results. While in the west, MT Leavenworth became ac- Quainted with Miss Augusta Keane ot Ohio, whom he married December F. 1865. She died July 3, 1870. This union was blessed with one daughter 1 Nellie Grace Leavenworth. On Janu ary 8, 1873, MT Leayenworth married Miss Emily Drew, who survives him The funeral was largely attended from his late home, Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, Rev Robert Duncan otficiat
 ing. The burial was in the village cemetery. There were humber O
 floral tributes. The bearers were olt soldiers and comrades. MT Leaven
 daughter, Mrs W. 6. William,s O, O
 Brooklyn and one sister, Mrs R. H
 Broderick. Seven grandchildren als' survive him. MT Leavenworth was {
 kind and obliging neighborI and wil
 be missed in this quiet village.
 Apples are getting scarce but w
 can furnish you with some good pi
 timber. Call at my store and see m,
 fancy evaporated peaches and apricots
 also nice large meaty prunes in on pound packages or in bulk. They vii
 please you.-[Stephen French at tn
 Depot.
 have unloaded at the depot four car
 of grain, one of mixed feed, one o
 Last week Thursday they unlOade'
 three of these cars. Two of them ha,
 40 tons each and the other 1000 bushel
 of corn. They did the work in thre
 and one half hours.
 A. B. Curtis had 8 letter from hi
 son, Arthur B. Curtis, this week, wh' is located near Dawson City, Klondike
 and he wrote that the snow was fiv
 and one half feet on the level and thu
 thermometer had averaged about
 degrees below zero and had been dow
 to 50 below.
 B. Hawley & Go. have just placed al
 order with western firm for abou
 two carloads of carriages and buggie
 which are to be delivered to then
 about the middle of April. If you ar
 thinking of buying you will do we'll l.