Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-05-14
Death Of A. q. Kinney.

O00S0 OF -. .. NsUUSy.
Alden Benjamin Kinney, whom heart
trouble completely prostrated the 9Th
inst, dropped asleep that night never to
awaken in this world and breatbed his
last at 10 o'clock last Thursday morning.
He had for years been in q crippled con-
dition from rheumatism, and increasing
infirmities with the advance of age had
for long time made him more and
more helpless.
Mr.. Kinney was az years old, having
been born in Braintree, April IS, 1886,
the son OF Edmund and Esther Byam
(Chase) Kinney, and was the last of his
family. He served his country in the
Civil war, as member OF Company G,
Sth regiment, Vermont Volunteers, and
served throughout the war. This COM
pany, the second in Orange county, was
recruited by the late Samuel G. p.
Sprague and John B. Mead, the latter be-
ing its second lieutenant. Among the
surviving comrades are Fabien Dupuis OF
this village, A. B. Hayward and ID. w.
Eaton of the Center, William c. Durham
OF Braintree and L. B. Kendall of Rox-
bury.
The regiment drilled at Camp Hol-
brook, Brattleboro, during the winter of
'61-'62 and on the 4th of March, '6z. left
for the front. Thereafter it, or some part
OF it, was under fire on 62 different days,
taking part in 10 battles and skirmishes
of note besides many engagements of
less Importance. Company G was in all
Of the 10 prominent engagements-Race-
land, Boutee station, Bayou des Allie
mands, burning of the gunboat Cotton;
April 1918, 1913, at Bisland; the "A days.
siege at Port Hudson, in which the SOL
diers were constantly under fire; Donald
sonville, Winchester, Fishers Hill,
Woodstock and Cedar Creek.
Mr.. Kinney enlisted in 1861, a strong.
robust young man of %, and was sent as
WAGNER from Boston with the horses to
Ship Island, which he reached two weeks
before his regiment arrived. While in
camp at Algiers in June of 1862, he was
taken sick and the next summer while en-
route to Sabin's Pass. contracted chilis
and fever, from which he was never after
entirely free. Nov. 8, 1864, be was
wounded by Moseby's guerrilas in the
left leg below the knee and fell into the
hands of the enemy in the Shenandoah
valley. For IL days he lay in Libby pris-
on and was then transferred to Pember-
ton prison, from which he was not re-
leased on parole until Feb. 5, 1865. Dur
ing his incarceration, muscular rheuma-
tism developed in his wounded limb and
later affected his back and shoulders, so
that when he was discharged from the
army in June, 1865, four years of hard
service had transformed him from Wig
orous youth to an infirm veteran, whose
portion was to be suffering for the rest
of his life. In the 80 days of his impris-
onment he lost 80 pounds of flesh. and
only strong curb on his appetite
brought him safely out of the famished
state that proved fatal to many a weaker
wiIled victim.
After the war, Mr.. Kinney beat his
sword into a plowshare and his spear
into a pruning hook, to follow the life
of a farmer as long as he was able to en-
gage in any active occupation. His home
was always in Braintree and Randolph
with the exception of a short residence in
Royslton from whose OrvilIe Bixby post.
No. SO, q. A. R., he was transferred &c u.
s. Grant post, No. 90, Feb. /, 1903. Be
fore his enlistment he married Caroline
kathan, whose death occurred two years
ago. They had no children, and the
nearest surviving relatives are nephews
and nieces-children OF Mrs. Kinney's
sisters, Mrs. William Lamson, Mrs. Levi
Willis and Mrs. Irving Lamson, and of
his half-brother, Wallace Mann.
Inc funeral service was held Sunday
afternoon at the late residence of the de-
ceased on South Pleasant street, Rev. Fra
/ ser Metzger of Bethany church officiating
The relatives and friends present from
away were a sister-in-law, Mrs. J. o.
Kinney of Baldwinsville, Mass; a neph-
ew, o. w. Mann of Boston; three nieces,
Mrs. Grace Lamson) Gates of Ware,
Mass, Miss Georgia Mann CT Boston and
Mrs. f. s. Whitcomb OF Barre; Mr..
Whitcomb of Barre, and Miss Frances
Butler of New York.
! U. s. Grant post attended in body of
20, and formed the escort to the grave in
Southview cemetery, where the burial
service was according to the Grand Army
ritual. Four comrades acted as bearers
T. b. Kendall and w. c. Durham OF
Company G, sth regiment, s. s. Whit
comb and John Manney.