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- Florance Mason Calkins - September 8, 1849 - March 4, 1917. Company G, 184th New York Volunteers during the Civil War. Son of Roswell and Harriet Newell Mason Calkins. Husband of Amorett Adell Ripsom (married September 1869) & Harriet E. Dunlap (married November 25, 1915.) Section 3, Row 8.
Newspaper Obituary - Tuesday, March 7, 1917 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - In the death of Mr. Florance Mason Calkins, which occurred at his home on the Mexico Road, south of Port Ontario, Saturday evening, the town has lost a good citizen and the home friends a loved one whose place will never be filled. Mr. Calkins was born a little way down the road from where he died, just over the Daysville cemetery hill, sixty-seven years ago. He grew up on a farm as boys of his time did. He went to the district school and when the Civil War broke out he was stirred with patriotism and so when he would be admitted he enlisted, in 1864, with the 184th Regiment and went down to fight for his country and his flag. He remained to the close of the war. He was a beardless boy of about fifteen years when he went. That fact was a credit to his courage. When he reached manhood he was united in marriage with Amoret Ripsom, who bore him a son, Florance A. and a daughter, Blanche. The son became a successful manager of a Woolworth store, worked hard to make good and succeed, but death claimed him several years ago. His wife died three years ago. He was married a second time in the fall of 1915 to Mrs. Hattie Dunlap Delong, who with the daughter, Mrs. F. Ernest Alexander, and two granddaughters, Ruth and Evelyn Calkins, survive him Mr. Calkins served J. B. Butler Post, G.A.R., two years as commander, leaving the chair last fall. He was a member of Daysville Grange and Fernwood M. E. church. The funeral was held from the home, yesterday afternoon, Rev. P. O. Wilcox, of Parish officiating. Burial was in Daysville cemetery.
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