Fayette County PA Archives Obituaries.....Pritchard, Benjamin 1895
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The Courier  May 24, 1895
PRITCHARD, MAJOR BENJAMIN

At his late residence on the corner of Pittsburg and Peach streets, Major Benjamin
Pritchard, at 9 o'clock, 
Monday morning.  The decline of well advanced years was hastened by gastritis, and
his last illness of 
several weeks was known several days before its termination to be fatal.  Deceased
was born in New 
Jersey, on April 7th, 1817.  When a boy he came here and was engaged for a number of
years in the 
manufacture of saddles and harness.  He later was made foreman of the upholstering
department of the 
Baltimore & Ohio shops here.  He then occupied ten years of his life as Justice of
the Peace.  In 1849, he 
was elected Major of the Uniformed Militia, composed of companies from Westmoreland,
Greene and 
Fayette counties.  From 1859 to 1862 he was doorkeeper in the House of Congress.  In
 1862, 1863 and 
1875 he was elected and served the three terms of office as Burgess of
Connellsville.  He was always a 
Democrat, but supported James G. Blaine, with whom he was personally acquainted, for
the Presidency 
in 1884.  Among his intimate friends were Hon. William Montgomery of Washington
count, member of 
Congress; Westley Frost, Ex-Sheriff of Fayette county; Col. T. B. Searight and Capt.
T. M. Fee.  Major 
Pritchard married Miss Harriet Freeman, daughter of Samuel Freeman, in 1840.  He was
the father of ten 
children, five of whom, with their mother, are living.  They are Mrs. Louise Curles,
living in Lawrence, 
Mo; Mrs. James Stouffer, George F. Pritchard and Miss Clara Pritchard, who reside
here, and John Leroy 
Pritchard, whose home is in Topeka, Kas.  The funeral services were held on
Wednesday afternoon at 5 
o'clock.  The pall bearers were Col. T. B. Searight, Capt. T. M. Fee, Bernard
Welker, Edmund Dunn, John 
Kurtz, Lawrence Donegan, Capt. J. M. DuShane and A. W. Hood.  Interment in Chestnut
Hill Cemetery.


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