----- Original Message ----- From: <mmills2725@aol.com> To: <NYALLEGA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:56 PM Subject: [NYAllega] Leonard O. Hackett obit > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Hackett, Stickle, Van Buskirk > Classification: Obituary > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/5866 > > Message Board Post: > > Last GAR Veteran Mustered Out > (1937) > > American Legion Post Conducts Military Services at Grave for Leonard O. HACKETT of Hume Who Died Monday > > Leonard O. HACKETT, 90, last surviving member of the town of Hume's once flourishing Burnside Post, No. 237, G.A.R., died at his home in Hume Monday, Jan. 17. He enlisted August 22, 1864 in Company L, 4th Regiment of New York Artillery and received an honorable discharge on June 12, 1865. > > L.O. HACKETT had been a resident of Hume for nearly 30 years and until the past few years had been a regular attendant of Memorial Day observances in Fillmore and Hume in which places he had held the honor for some time of being the sole survivor of his Post. His wife, Caroline STICKLE, died Dec. 30, 1930. > > He is survived by a brother William of Hornell; a granddaughter Eva VAN BUSKIRK, Hume; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held from his late home Thursday at two p.m., Rev. Gomer MILLS of Sandusky officiating. > > Burial was made in the Bates cemetery under the auspices of Dee Victor Thomas Post, No. 1155, American Legion. > > [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY] > > > ==== NYALLEGA Mailing List ==== > Visit Allegany Co. New York GenWeb at www.rootsweb.com/~nyallega/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >