Decatur County Journal Iowa February 9, l893 After an illness of ten days WILLIAM C. HEBENER paid nature's final debt, passing away at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.  Though MR. HEBENER had been but a short time in Woodland, his upright conduct and gentlemanly demeanor had won the high regard of those with whom he was thrown in contact by business intercourse. Several months ago he came to Woodland from his Iowa home and started a marble yard.  It was his intention to send for his family as soon as the winter was over and two months ago a son, C.H. Hebener, came to aid his father in his business.  A peculiarly sad feature of his death was the absence of his entire family with the exception of the one son. MR. HEBENER was born in Lexington, Kentucky, December 24, l840.  When a young man he moved to Virginia, where he was married.  His surviving family consists of a wife and eight children, now living in Leon, Iowa. MR. HEBENER was a Grand Army man, having served two years in the First Virginia Cavalry as First Sergeant. For many years he has been afflicted with bronchitis and it was this lung trouble that made him an easy victim to the fatal pleuro-pneumonia. The body will be embalmed and taken east in charge of his son, C.H. HEBENER, who expects to leave Woodland Friday morning. In this connection C.H. HEBENER wishes to express his heartfelt thanks for the many acts of kindness shown by the people of Woodland during his father's fatal illness.                                     --Woodland (Cal.) Mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert