Charles Waste obit 1924 from my grandmother's             scr
Date:	98-04-10 07:03:47 EDT
From:	tess@sover.net (Terry Perham)

from the Brattleboro Reformer
                Brattleboro, Windham County, Vt

                        JACKSONVILLE
                Former Successful Merchant Dies

        Charles H. Waste, 71, for 28 years previous to 1919 successful merchant
here died at 11:30 o'clock Wednesday night of organic heart trouble
after being in failing health many years.  He was confined to his ben
only a short time.

        Mr. Waste was a native of Whitingham, a son of Charles and Harriet
(Warren) Waste, and was born Feb. 22, 1852.  The family moved to Rowe
where he attended the public schools.  For a time he was a farmer and
then took up carpentry, becoming foreman of aconstruction gang,
following the occupation until he was 40 years of age.  He then became
keeper of the general store here and was a successful merchant until he
retired in 1919.

        He married Miss Eleanor C. Bliss of Whitingham, Nov. 26, 1874, and to
them a daughter and a son were born.   They are Etta, wife of Leonard
Brown of Wilmington, and Harry L. Waste of Shelburne Falls, Mass.

        Mr. Waste was a member of Unity lodge of Mansons and had served as
master of the lodge, afterwards being chaplain several years.

        Besides his wife, a daugher and son, Mr. Waste leaves four
grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Harriet Holbrook of Lyndon Center and
Mrs. Sadie M. Christie of Rowe, Mass., and a brother, Warren E. Waste of
Greenfield Mass.

        The funeral will be held at 1 o'clock today at the home and the burial
will take place in the Arms cemetery in Shelburne Falls.
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Terry Perham
Hinsdale, NH
tess@sover.ent