The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-08
LIEUT.. P. c. ]. CHENEY.
Native of Washington, VT, Died in APP
pleton, MINI.

The Appleton, Minnesota, Press o
Nov. announces the death of Leuten
ant p. c. j. Cheney, native of Wash
ington, who was well known in this vi
cinity The Press has the following ap
preciatve words concerning him;
"Lieut p. G. j. Cheney died very sud
denly at his rooms in the st. James no
tel on Friday evening, Oct. p, at 5;lI
o'clock. Though he had been in poor
health for years, the fact that his condi
ton that day was unusually serious was
not generally known and the news OF
his death came as a shock to his friends
and relatives both here and away.
The body was removed the following
day to the home of his niece, Mrs.
leila Tadsen, where it remained until
the funeral services, conducted from the
house Monday afternoon at o'clock
Rev. c. L. Lyons of Minneapolis, ofIiciat.
ed at the house, and two selections,
Abide with Me and Beautiful Isle of
Somewhere, were rendered by the choir.
The local lodge, A, +. & A. NJ, took
charge of the services at the grave and
performed the last rites over the re-
mains of their departed brother.
"Perley Chandler Jones Cheney was
born June %, 1899, in Washington,
Orange county, Vermont, the son of Da-
vid and Ruth Putnam Cheney. His fa-
Their was a farmer and his boyhood days
were spent upon the farm securing, as
he himself said, common school edu-
cation, which was very limited. At the
age of Is years he left home and began
his life for himself, spending the next
two years clerking in country store in
Massachusetts. From this he advanced
to the position OF salesman in a whole
sale dry goods establishment in Boston
and remained there one year. During
that year he cast his first balot-for
Abraham Lincoln in November, 1860. The
Civil war broke out the following year
and Mr.. Cheney enlisted with the Mont
pelier company c., of the First Vermont
cavalry. In service with his company in
a cavalry charge at Gettysburg on July
-, 1903 he was seriously wounded and
for six months following was incapaci
tated When his condition permitted he
again joined his company and participant
ed in five more notable battles before he
resigned from the service in June, 1864.
"In 1866 he was married to Annie De-
Cater and they made their home in Chel
sea-, Mass, and Mr. Cheney acted as trav
cling salesman for a number of years.
Mrs. Cheney died on July 2, 1882 Dur
ing the later years OF his mercantile
work he travelled through Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
In 1887 an ailment, caused primarily |
by wound, brought breakdown in |
For the past six years he has made his |
home in Minnesota, the greater part of I
the time in Appleton.
Though great sufferer during these /
last days he was always cheerful and a
brave soldier to the last This tribute
of him by friend tells fitting
story Of the closing OF notable career:
In hotel lobby up at Appleton,
Mimi, an old man sits dreaming. His
face is study strong, thoughtful, re-
fined--a product of the Green noun
tains-his father a Cheney, his mother
a Putnam
" His once stalwart, knightly physique
has become corpulent and somewhat
eyes have become dimmed TO only head
line capacity. So he sits and dreams :
and sometimes it is of the second battle !
IF Bull Run. He was then an orderly
sergeant in the only cavalry regiment
Vermont sent South. The rebels were 1
again seemingly victorious and back /
anne a New York regiment toward 5
where the Nermonters were drawn up in t
inc, officers to the rear. The colonel
rad just given the order TO retreat when |
sergeant Cheney at the front rose in \
lis stirrups shouting: THE First Yer s
mont cavalry never retreats until it |
ees something besides the l4th New
York in front of it," The men hest \
ated, the order was countermanded, the v
lew Workers halted and reformed, then
harged down one road. the Nermonters :
mother and the oneoming rebels were
epulsed II
"'All told the gallant regiment was in
9 battles, and promotions came to the
Dung sergeant-then a Mosby surprise
nd Libbey prison, an exchange, and a
early mortal wound at Gettysburg. Aft
T the war a long and successful mer
antile career in connection with a Bos-
on firm, addresses at dwellings, and
eiications and reunions, and the con-
lnued friendship of Custer and Grant
nd Sheridan. Then the clouds gathered.
lis wife died and the childless old man,
D be near his brothers, came to MIN
esota They have both preceded him
nd now with burdening weight, short
ned breath and uncertain eye he sits
mong strangers and dreams
Mr.. Cheney is survived by four half
Frank and Lafayette, of Yer
Iont, and William and Irwin, now in the
Test, and his remains were laid to rest
| the Appleton cemetery besides his
NO brothers, Bradley and John, and the
blowing are the surviving relatives at
he funeral: Mrs. Laura Cheney, Mrs.
ella Tadsen, Mr.. and Mrs. F. l.. Skill
an, and Burton Cheney, of Apleton |
RS. r. ]. Seiberich, of Minneapolis, and
rael Putnam Cheney, OF Lyleton, Sask.,
inada.
The news of his death will bring sor-
w to his surviving soldier comrades,
it'll all of whom he kept in touch dur
e his life and whom he numbered as
: particular friends: General Theodore
Peck, Frank r. Wells, Fred H. Wells, Il
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