OBIT: Benjamin CARPENTER, 1897, Waynesboro, Franklin County, PA

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Benjamin Carpenter died at the almshouse Tuesday.  He was one of the oldest men 
in the county, having reached the age of 96 years.  He was born in St. Thomas 
township and was a laborer there for many years.  For the past twenty years he 
has been at the almshouse.  Tuesday, while the poor directors and some of The 
Children's Aid Society directors were going through the building, they stopped 
to talk to the aged man.  Mr. Suesserott, attorney to the board, asked him his 
age.  He seemed in his usual health.  Fifteen minutes later he was dead.  He had 
died peacefully, without a struggle.  It is said he did not have a relative in 
the county.  He was in sturdy health, notwithstanding his advanced age and his 
death was very unexpected.


People's Register, Chambersburg, PA, April 9, 1897