Source, Rutland (Vt) Daily Herald--Thur.Oct.3, 1940. PETER A .POST RITES. SHOREHAM, Vt., Oct. 2--Funeral services for Peter A. Post, 72, who died at his home here Friday, were held Monday at the Congregational church at 11 a.m. Rev. John R. Nelson officiated and Cyrus Metcalf , master of Simonds lodge of Masons, of which Mr.Post was a member, conducted the Masonic rites. Bearers were Oliver Farnham, Clarence Dickinson, J.R. Jacobs, Grandy Heltman, John L. DeWitt and Harry Baldwin. Burial was in Malta Ridge cemetery in Malta, N.Y. Mr. Post was born in Stillwater, N.Y., March 4,1868, son of Andrew and Hannah Shearer Post. He was engaged in the lumber business until he came to Shoreham in 1928 when he operated a garage and store.In 1891 he married Henrietta Freeman, who died in 1934. He married again Jessie Kendall Baldwin, who survives him with two sons, Benjamin Post of Danby, Vt. and Ralph Post of Waterbury Center, Vt. There are also five grandchildren, Mrs. Thomas Buttolph of Shoreham, Vt.,Miss Dorothea Post of Waterbury Center, Vt., Mrs.Richard Casey of Albany, N.Y.,Harold Post of Oneonta, N.Y. and Robert Post of Pensacola,Fla.; two great grandchildren; three brothers, Reuben of Stillwater, N.Y., Moses of Fitchburg, Mass., and Allen of Mechanicsville, N.Y., and one sister, Mrs. Bailey Baker of Stillwater, N.Y.