~source: Yonkers Statesman; Friday, Nov 9 1928
Pallbearers were: Stephen F. Thayer; Thomas Ewing; Admiral Purnell F. Harrington, USN, retired; George Fitch; City Judge Charles W. Boote; J.F. Fairlamb; R.E. Prime, jr.; William V. Campbell; William Scrugham; Charles E. Skinner; George A. Cable; Abraham H. Tompkins and Major Charles V. Benton
~source: Yonkers Statesman; Tuesday, Nov 13 1928
Ethelbert Belknap
—died aged 85 at his Yonkers home
—born in Yonkers; his forebears were early settlers of Newburgh and vicinity
—GAR Veteran
—Yonkers Board of Education member for 29 years
—partner in the Waring Hat Co
—survived by his widow, they were married c. 1864; his eight children and a brother & sister
—funeral services from St. John's Episcopal Church in Getty Square; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery
~sources:
Yonkers Herald; Saturday, Nov 10 1928 and Tuesday, Nov 13 1928
New York Times; Saturday, Nov 10 1928
{edit: one obituary mistakenly listed his mother, Abigail Odell Belknap, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Odell, as his widow}
~source: Yonkers Statesman; Friday, Nov 9 1928
Pallbearers were: Stephen F. Thayer; Thomas Ewing; Admiral Purnell F. Harrington, USN, retired; George Fitch; City Judge Charles W. Boote; J.F. Fairlamb; R.E. Prime, jr.; William V. Campbell; William Scrugham; Charles E. Skinner; George A. Cable; Abraham H. Tompkins and Major Charles V. Benton
~source: Yonkers Statesman; Tuesday, Nov 13 1928
Ethelbert Belknap
—died aged 85 at his Yonkers home
—born in Yonkers; his forebears were early settlers of Newburgh and vicinity
—GAR Veteran
—Yonkers Board of Education member for 29 years
—partner in the Waring Hat Co
—survived by his widow, they were married c. 1864; his eight children and a brother & sister
—funeral services from St. John's Episcopal Church in Getty Square; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery
~sources:
Yonkers Herald; Saturday, Nov 10 1928 and Tuesday, Nov 13 1928
New York Times; Saturday, Nov 10 1928
{edit: one obituary mistakenly listed his mother, Abigail Odell Belknap, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Odell, as his widow}
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