Norman Alexander Eddy, born August 14, 1848, died November 21, 1917 in Parkerville, at his daughter, Mrs. Hanley’s home. He was a carpenter and was repairing a home, when he died of probable heart failure. Born in Canada, he came to the U.S. as a small child to live in Pennsylvania. He had lived in Philipsburg with his daughter for only a short time. A member of G.A.R., he displayed the Stars and Stripes of his adopted home conspicuously in his home. He was preceded in death by his wife, survivors were: daughter Mrs. Hanley and Mrs. E.J.M. Williams, of Hall. L.C. Degenhart a G.A.R. Veteran was honorary pallbearer, at his burial in the Philipsburg cemetery.
First I found an obituary for John Hendrickson Jr., a Corporal in Co. E, Thirty Seventh Regiment, who drowned on February 24, 1900, in the Philippines' while serving for the US in the War with Spain. Then in a very short obituary, the February 1, 1901, Philipsburg Mail, stated John Hendrickson Sr.’s funeral had taken place on Sunday, January 26, 1901, with services at the City Hall, by Rev. H.G. Wakefield. The GAR, Firemen and City and County officials attended the funeral with the Philipsburg Silver Cornet Band leading the procession to the cemetery.
Thomas Long, born in 1839, died at the home of his relatives in Galena, Illinois in September, 1917. A tinner by trade, he operated a tin-shop in Philipsburg, for many years before he settled a homestead, on Cow Creek, several miles from Hall. He was a G.A.R. veteran and often entertained his small friends with stories of the battlefield. He had a very large collection of valuable curios and every specimen had a story. After a Catholic service, he was interred in the Philipsburg cemetery.
J.A. Matthews, I know was a Civil War Veteran, but I have been unable to find an obituary of his death. He is discussed through out the “Mettle Of Granite County Books.”
Paul A. Fusz, was born in Hericourt, France in 1847 to Francis H. and Marie Regina (Tachaen) Fusz, was brought to St. Louis Missouri when he was six years of age. He and two friends ran away and joined the Confederate Army when he was seventeen. He and one of the friends were caught by the Union Army while smuggling quinine and valuable papers for the confederates and they chewed up the papers rather than give them to the Union Army. The friend was hanged, but because Fusz was only seventeen, he was sent to Jefferson City Prison. “One of President Lincoln’s last official acts was to pardon Fusz”. Fusz lived in Granite, Montana from 1889, until shortly before his death, when he returned to St. Louis, for medical care of his pernicious anemia. He was president of the Bi-Metallic Mining Company which included the American Gem Mining Company on West Fork of Rock Creek. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, beside his wife, who had died 20 years prior, in the family plot in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 18, 1910. Paul is spoken of often in “Mettle of Granite County Book One” and discussed in depth in Book II in the Sapphire Mines Chapter.
Charles Weitfle died in the Masonic Home in the Helena Valley, on January 20, 1921. He held the title of being one of the oldest Mason’s in Montana. Born in Germany on February 15, 1826, He immigrated in 1850 and served in the U.S. Navy with an honorable discharge in 1859, then served in the Civil War in the Union Army. He was a noted photographer, receiving medals for work he did for the Union Pacific Railroad in Central City, Colorado. He moved to Granite at the peak of the silver boom in 1892, then, in 1899 he became a bee keeper in Idaho Falls and continued this career until moving to the Helena Masonic Home in 1914. He was the Master of the Granite Masonic Lodge for one term. Charles is memorialized, by his publication of "Views of Granite and Philipsburg and Vicinity", and is spoken of often in “Mettle of Granite County Book One.”
William Irvine worked the mines over thirty years with his good friend G.B. Ballard. Born in Davis County, Missouri in 1842, he served in the Confederate Army and died from complications of asthma and dropsy at the county hospital, August 13, 1901. He was a miner and prospector. There is no headstone or file card in the City Hall, so he must have been buried in the pauper section of the Philipsburg cemetery.
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