Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....James Speakman BENSON, 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Leslie Benson and Dan Lindley Daily Local News, December 24, 1918 James Speakman Benson In the casualty list to-day appears the name of James Speakman Benson as being killed. The Chester County War Aid is seeking to find his relatives and the post office has no record of him. He is supposed to have enlisted from somewhere in the neighboring country, and the friends here desire to procure word regarding his family that proper recognition may be accorded. Daily Local News, August 13, 1921 BENSON- Killed in France, on October 4, 1918, James S. Benson, Co. B, 5th Machine Gun Battalion. Relatives and friends of the family also members of Bernhard Schlegel Post, are invited to attend the funeral without further notice from the funeral parlors of T.H. McFadden, 128 West Miner St., West Chester on Tuesday, August 16, 1921. Meet at 1 o’clock. Interment at Unionville. Daily Local News, August 16, 1921 With full military honors, accorded by members of Bernhard Schlegel Post, American Legion, of this place, the body of the late James Benson, 23, formerly of Oakbourne, were laid to rest this afternoon in Unionville Cemetery, the ceremony being of the usual impressive character. The decease was a brother of Robert Benson, of Wawa Dairy Farm, and leaves two brothers and as many sisters to mourn his loss. His father died a number of years ago, and his mother disappeared soon after his death, and has not since been located. Benson’s body has been at the undertaking parlor of T.H. McFadden this place, for several days, awaiting the funeral, and services were held there early in the afternoon. They were conducted by Rev. Mr. Markley of Marshallton, and were attended by many veterans of the world war, as well as relatives. The body was taken to the western limit of the borough on a caisson, and there transferred to a hearse for the trip to the cemetery. Many members of the local post accompanied the body as a guard of honor, the casket being draped with the American flag. There were several floral tributes.