"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 147, No 4, p 71, July 25, 1949. Herbert Arthur, son of the late John H. and Melissa Chesebro Franklin, was born at Vernon, N. Y., October 22, 1876, and died at his home in Rome, Wednesday, June 15, 1949. After his marriage to Lelia R. Palmiter, December 9, 1908, in Vernon, they lived in Greenway and later at Spencer Settlement. They came to Rome in 1940. He was a faithful attendant at the Vernon Seventh Day Baptist Church. Besides his widow, he leaves one daughter, Mrs. Arnold Davis, Battle Creek, Mich., two sisters, The Misses Estella M. and Nettie A. Franklin, both of Vernon; three grandsons, Owen, Erwin, and Oliver Davis; and one nephew. Funeral services were held Sabbath afternoon, June 18, at the Strong Funeral Home in Rome, conducted by Pastor Herbert L. Polan. Burial was made in Vernon. H. L. P. "The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 189, No 17, p 15, Nov. 9, 1970. Lelia P[almiter], was born May 11, 1882, in Verona, N. Y., and died at the Sanitarium Hospital in Battle Creek, Mich., Sept. 26, after a brief illness. She was a member of the Verona Seventh Day Baptist Church, their senior member, having joined in May 1896. She had made her home in Battle Creek since 1964. She was very regular in attendance at all church services up to the week of her death. She was still riding her bicycle around the city at the age of eighty-five. She was the widow of H. Arthur Franklin who died in 1949. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Arnold (Harriet) Davis of Battle Creek. The funeral service was conducted by her pastor, The Rev. S. Kenneth Davis from the Farley Funeral Home in Battle Creek. Interment was made at the Vernon Cemetery, not far from the home church in Verona, N. Y. S. K. D. http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders