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- from "The Friendship Register", 20 Jun 1929 (fultonhistory.com)
IN MEMORY OF ALMIRA C. WHITE
Mrs. Almira C. White was born in Belfast, Allegany County, Mar 30th, 1843, and died at her late home, in Angelica, N.Y., June 11th, 1929. Prior to her passing she was the last surviving member of the family of eleven children of Elias P. and Mary A. Benjamin. A large circle of relatives and friends cherish her memory. The deceased was the widow of the late Amos White of Angelica. To them were born two daughters, Alice who died at the age thirteen and Susie White Van Allen, who for some years has been with her mother, and lovingly administered to her needs in the declining years. Among the relatives who are left to mourn their loss are Mrs. Sarah Benjamin, widow of the late William H. Benjamin, a twin brother of the deceased, and Mrs. Catherine Benjamin, widow of the late Elias A. Benjamin, of Belfast, who was a brother of the deceased. The nephews and nieces are Mr. William Jay of Minnesota, Mr. George A. Scott of Waverly, N.Y., Mrs. H.B. Newton and Dan. M. Todd of Friendship, Charles and Fred Lincoln of Claire Benjamin of Angelica, Mrs. John Kitchen of New York City, Mrs Lena Foster and Charles Benjamin of Belfast, Percy B. Johnson of Los Angeles, California, Miss Lena Johnson and Floyd Johnson of Interlaken, N.Y., Claud Johnson of Minneapolis, Minn., George Johnson of Binghamton, N.Y., Will Benjamin of Deerfield, Kansas, and Mearle Benjamin also of Kansas, and many grand-nieces and grand-nephews. Elias P. Benjamin, father of the deceased, was one of the pioneers of the Republican party, being associated with Asahel N. Cole, and was one of those who was at the meeting which was the birth of the Party on May 16th, 1854, in what is now the Grand Army Hall, located on Island Park, but at that time was the First Baptist Church and stood on the Village Green, on the site now occupied by the First Baptist Church and parsonage, in Friendship, N.Y. the funeral was held from her late home, in Angelica, where she had lived for many years, Thursday afternoon, June 14th, 1929. The service was conducted by the Rev. Otis Alvord, pastor of the Universalist Church of Friendship. Interment was in the beautiful cemetery, Angelica, in the family plot by the side of her husband. In the passing of Mrs. White closes the history of the immediate family of Elias P. and Mary A. Benjamin, on of the large and early families of Allegany County.
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1843 - 1929 (86 years)
