Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-12
RETURNS FROM OLD
SOLDIERS REUNION
Capt. Frank E. Landers Makes An
Interesting Trip Amid Boyhood
Scenes in East.

Capt. F. e. Landers returned home
yesterday from a two weeks trip
back to Binghamville, N. Y, where
was held reunion of the remain
ing members of the 10th New York
Battery. While away, he also went
down to Massachusetts, for short
visit.
Three hundred young men and
boys marched away to the civil war
from Binghamville as members of
this battery and at the close of the
war the fragment of the enlisted
company came home. Upon the day
of reunion, seven men-comprising
the living urvivors--met to talk ov-
err old times and renew the ties OF
friendship begun so long ago. There
were six guns in the battery at the
time Of the war, but none of that
artillery is in existence at Bingham
VILE.
Capt. Landers never attended a
reunion of the battery before and is
the only member who this year came
from a distance. All the others live
lin the immediate vicinity of the
scene of their enlistment.
While he was in New York, he Wis
tied the old homestead where he liv-
ed his boyhood days and tramped all
over the hills and through the
sugar bush.'' In Upper Lisle coun-
ty, in the little cemetery where his
grandfather's remains lie buried, al
though at the time of the civil war
there was not settlement in the
county, there are in that cemetery
the remains of eight Revolutionary
soldiers, thirteen veterans OF the war
of 1912, and eighteen veterans OF
the Civil war. These were men who
came to the county to help form the
settlements made during the later
years of their lives.
Capt. Landers made a visit to
Berkshire county during his. alb
sence in New York, and visited an
old cemetery near the little town
of Berkshire. The old burying
ground was long ago abandoned and
was even located with difficulty. Ar
irving at the proper place, it took
both driver and visitor to dimly dis
Germ through the dense underbrush
the CLEAN of stone wall across a
field. Making their way there. they
found small enclosure, walled in
with a five foot stone wall, with a
narrow gate entrance. Inside the
enclosure was perfect labyrinth OF
young trees and thick underground
and over the ground carpet Of
myrtle six or eight inches thick. The
marble slabs were many OF them
sunken; others had fallen upon
their faces Most of the inscriptions
were illegible and the entire burying
ground fallen into a sad state OF de-
cay, The resident of Berkshire who
had accompanied. the captain on the
trip, vowed that he would see that
the ground hallowed by the dust OF
their ancestors should be better car
ed for in the future.
Another interesting place. men
toned was the old home of Capt.
Lander's great grandfather near
Lennox, Mass, which has been IN
the family for about one hundred
and fifty years and bids fair to re-
main for longer period in their
possession
1t is with apologies to this old and
much valued friend of the Freeman
Tribune that these interesting trag-
ments of short conversation are
made public, for Capt. Landers has
decided reluctance about publicity.
Diamond, ruby, pearl, sapphire or
any kind of ring desired, at Teed's.