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- Vernon D. Caufield - December 10, 1898 - April 13, 1972. Military Service World War I: Enlisted May 23, 1918 at Fort Slocum, New York as a Private in the United States Army; Served in the Medical Department in the United States Army Medical Hospital at Ellis Island; October 17, 1918 made rank of Private First Class; Honorably discharged June 26, 1919. Grange member.
Newspaper Obituary - Saturday, April 15, 1972 Watertown Daily Times - Watertown, New York - Vernon D. Caufield Dies at 73 ¬Pulaski - Vernon D. Caufield, 73, formerly of Pulaski, died Thursday at Bayport, Long Island, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Benjamin (Vaughn) Poidomani. The funeral will be Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Foster-Hax Funeral Home, Rev. John W. Hottenstein, pastor of the Congregational Church, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Surviving, besides his widow, Mrs. Blanche Caufield, are two daughters, Mrs. Benjamin (Vaughn) Poidomani, Bayport, Long Island, with whom he had lived the last six years, Mrs. Donald (Joyce) Gates, Phoenix, and 10 grandchildren. Born October 12, 1898 at Rensselaer Falls, son of Frederick and Sarah Kelly Caufield, he attended Pulaski High School and served two years in World War I. For years, Mr. Caufield was employed as a bookkeeper for the Dairymen's League milk plant here. He married Blanche Trumble of Pulaski. He was a member of the Congregational Church, Pulaski Lodge 415, F. & A.M., Pulaski Grange, Robert Edward Post 348, American Legion and the Salmon River Barracks.
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1898 - 1972 (73 years)
d. 16 Apr 1945, Pulaski, New York, USA