OBITS: Weed, Galen Otis; Auburn, Cayuga co., NY

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Auburn Morning Dispatch
1886-Auburn Morning Dispatch, Wed, Oct. 13, 1886
Death of Galen O. Weed
Galen O. Weed of 11 Wall Street, whose death was
announced in yesterday's DISPATCH, was 80 years 
of age, and familiarly known by a host of friends.  His
surviving children are T. A. Weed of Syracuse,
Mrs. A. R. Naracon of this city, and Galen O. Weed, Jr, 
one of the proprietors of the Syracuse Sunday Times.
His funeral will occur at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

1886-Auburn Daily Bulletin-Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1886
Death of Galen Weed
A Short Sketch of His History-A Prison Officer of Old
  Galen O. Weed died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. R. Naracon, 11 Wall 
Street, at about 1:30, this morning, from effects of a disease which has been 
creeping upon him for several years past.  Indeed, he has been in poor heath 
for a decade.
  Mr. Weed was the son of a clergyman and was born in 1807.  He came to 
Aurelius with his father's family at a very tender age.  The family lived in 
what is now a part of Auburn and is now known as Hackney, and Mrs. Weed has 
often told, in late years, of his boyhood journeys through the woods to the 
Auburn station.  He while a very young boy, drove horses which drew the stone 
for the prison walls, and he also gazed upon the copper anatomy of the 
prison's presiding genius before it was hoisted to its present lofty 
position.  At the age of eighteen Mr. Weed was married to Jerusha Ann Allen, 
of Aurelius, and by her he had six children, three of whom are now living.  
The surviving children are T. A. Weed, of Syracuse, Mrs. Naracon mentioned 
above, and Galen O. Weed, Jr., proprietor of the Syracuse Sunday Times.  The 
deceased at two periods in his life kept a grocery store, but between these 
periods were long years of service on the prison forces at Sing Sing and 
Auburn, and later upon the force at the insane asylum in this city.  For a 
number of his later years he was a correspondent of his son's paper and wrote 
also, occasionally for other journals.  He was a member of no society or 
church, but in the days of the Old Auburn Guards he shouldered his musket with 
that company.  
  The funeral services will take place at 8 p.m. tomorrow, at his daughter's 
home.

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