New Castle News
May 1, 1895
Mrs. Martha Wait widow of the late Rev. C. Wait, died Friday, April 26, aged 94 years and 7 months. Mrs. Wait had been ailing for some time with a complication of diseases brought on by old age but although everything possible was done for her she gradually grew worse until Friday when she fell asleep in Jesus. Mrs. Waite was an estimable lady and one who bore the love and respect of all who knew her. Funeral services Sunday, April 28 at 3 o’clock from the residence of her son-in-law, William Bryant, North Pine street, interment in Greenwood cemetery.
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New Castle Weekly News
July 31, 1889
Twenty eight years ago Alfred Waite enlisted at Pittsburgh in the Union army. At the close of the war he did not return home, and was supposed to be dead until a few days ago, when he appeared to his astonished relatives in this city, to find himself almost forgotten, his children dead or grown to manhood and his wife married again.
When the war broke out Mr. Waite lived with his wife and four children at Allegheny, and the call for men found him one of the first to respond. After a few months’ service be obtained a furlough, during which time he removed his family to this city, and immediately returned to his regiment. That was the last his wife saw of him, and during the latter part of the war, when his letters ceased, he was supposed to have been killed. This suspicion was intensified and almost verified when the boys in
blue came marching home and brought no word of Alfred Waite. Yes, he must be surely dead. So thought all who knew him, as day by day passed and he did not return. No one knew he was dead, yet no one believed he was living, thinking that he like many others filled an unknown grave on some southern battlefield.
Eliza Waite experienced in those years of waiting what is meant by hope deferred, and she at last was forced by circumstances to acknowledge that she was a widow. It was then that she yielded to the advances of a man named Harper Emery and married him. Children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Emery, but their marriage relations were not pleasant and they parted twelve years ago. Mrs. Emery now lives with her two sons and one daughter at 526 Sciota street, and her husband is supposed to be living in the neighborhood of Wampum.
A few days ago a well preserved man of 59 years appeared in this city, and with very little difficulty succeded in finding his way to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bryant, of Pine street, where Mrs. Martha Waite makes her home. Mrs. Martha Waite is the mother of the gray-haired stranger, and the relations of mother and son were speedily re-established. From his mother Mr. Waite learned of the changes that had taken place in his own family affairs. The situation at present is exceedingly delicate. With reference to himself he says that at the close of the war he in company with a number of comrades joined the regular army, in which he served about thirteen years in various parts of the west. On the expiration of his time in the service he went to railroading, and has been engaged in this work almost continually since then. He seemt to give no very satisfactory reasons for not writing to his family. A large portion of the time he was beyond the limits of civilization, and as the years passed he concluded that he was forgotten and that no one would care to hear from him.
He is now living with his mother on Pine street, and proposes to remain in this city. Of his two living children Henry F., lives at No. 1 O’Brien street West New Castle, and Alfred is a resident of Youngstown. These men have only the vaguest recollections of their father, whom they had naturally never expected to see again.
May 1, 1895
Mrs. Martha Wait widow of the late Rev. C. Wait, died Friday, April 26, aged 94 years and 7 months. Mrs. Wait had been ailing for some time with a complication of diseases brought on by old age but although everything possible was done for her she gradually grew worse until Friday when she fell asleep in Jesus. Mrs. Waite was an estimable lady and one who bore the love and respect of all who knew her. Funeral services Sunday, April 28 at 3 o’clock from the residence of her son-in-law, William Bryant, North Pine street, interment in Greenwood cemetery.
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New Castle Weekly News
July 31, 1889
Twenty eight years ago Alfred Waite enlisted at Pittsburgh in the Union army. At the close of the war he did not return home, and was supposed to be dead until a few days ago, when he appeared to his astonished relatives in this city, to find himself almost forgotten, his children dead or grown to manhood and his wife married again.
When the war broke out Mr. Waite lived with his wife and four children at Allegheny, and the call for men found him one of the first to respond. After a few months’ service be obtained a furlough, during which time he removed his family to this city, and immediately returned to his regiment. That was the last his wife saw of him, and during the latter part of the war, when his letters ceased, he was supposed to have been killed. This suspicion was intensified and almost verified when the boys in
blue came marching home and brought no word of Alfred Waite. Yes, he must be surely dead. So thought all who knew him, as day by day passed and he did not return. No one knew he was dead, yet no one believed he was living, thinking that he like many others filled an unknown grave on some southern battlefield.
Eliza Waite experienced in those years of waiting what is meant by hope deferred, and she at last was forced by circumstances to acknowledge that she was a widow. It was then that she yielded to the advances of a man named Harper Emery and married him. Children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Emery, but their marriage relations were not pleasant and they parted twelve years ago. Mrs. Emery now lives with her two sons and one daughter at 526 Sciota street, and her husband is supposed to be living in the neighborhood of Wampum.
A few days ago a well preserved man of 59 years appeared in this city, and with very little difficulty succeded in finding his way to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bryant, of Pine street, where Mrs. Martha Waite makes her home. Mrs. Martha Waite is the mother of the gray-haired stranger, and the relations of mother and son were speedily re-established. From his mother Mr. Waite learned of the changes that had taken place in his own family affairs. The situation at present is exceedingly delicate. With reference to himself he says that at the close of the war he in company with a number of comrades joined the regular army, in which he served about thirteen years in various parts of the west. On the expiration of his time in the service he went to railroading, and has been engaged in this work almost continually since then. He seemt to give no very satisfactory reasons for not writing to his family. A large portion of the time he was beyond the limits of civilization, and as the years passed he concluded that he was forgotten and that no one would care to hear from him.
He is now living with his mother on Pine street, and proposes to remain in this city. Of his two living children Henry F., lives at No. 1 O’Brien street West New Castle, and Alfred is a resident of Youngstown. These men have only the vaguest recollections of their father, whom they had naturally never expected to see again.
New Castle News
May 1, 1895
Mrs. Martha Wait widow of the late Rev. C. Wait, died Friday, April 26, aged 94 years and 7 months. Mrs. Wait had been ailing for some time with a complication of diseases brought on by old age but although everything possible was done for her she gradually grew worse until Friday when she fell asleep in Jesus. Mrs. Waite was an estimable lady and one who bore the love and respect of all who knew her. Funeral services Sunday, April 28 at 3 o’clock from the residence of her son-in-law, William Bryant, North Pine street, interment in Greenwood cemetery.
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New Castle Weekly News
July 31, 1889
Twenty eight years ago Alfred Waite enlisted at Pittsburgh in the Union army. At the close of the war he did not return home, and was supposed to be dead until a few days ago, when he appeared to his astonished relatives in this city, to find himself almost forgotten, his children dead or grown to manhood and his wife married again.
When the war broke out Mr. Waite lived with his wife and four children at Allegheny, and the call for men found him one of the first to respond. After a few months’ service be obtained a furlough, during which time he removed his family to this city, and immediately returned to his regiment. That was the last his wife saw of him, and during the latter part of the war, when his letters ceased, he was supposed to have been killed. This suspicion was intensified and almost verified when the boys in
blue came marching home and brought no word of Alfred Waite. Yes, he must be surely dead. So thought all who knew him, as day by day passed and he did not return. No one knew he was dead, yet no one believed he was living, thinking that he like many others filled an unknown grave on some southern battlefield.
Eliza Waite experienced in those years of waiting what is meant by hope deferred, and she at last was forced by circumstances to acknowledge that she was a widow. It was then that she yielded to the advances of a man named Harper Emery and married him. Children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Emery, but their marriage relations were not pleasant and they parted twelve years ago. Mrs. Emery now lives with her two sons and one daughter at 526 Sciota street, and her husband is supposed to be living in the neighborhood of Wampum.
A few days ago a well preserved man of 59 years appeared in this city, and with very little difficulty succeded in finding his way to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bryant, of Pine street, where Mrs. Martha Waite makes her home. Mrs. Martha Waite is the mother of the gray-haired stranger, and the relations of mother and son were speedily re-established. From his mother Mr. Waite learned of the changes that had taken place in his own family affairs. The situation at present is exceedingly delicate. With reference to himself he says that at the close of the war he in company with a number of comrades joined the regular army, in which he served about thirteen years in various parts of the west. On the expiration of his time in the service he went to railroading, and has been engaged in this work almost continually since then. He seemt to give no very satisfactory reasons for not writing to his family. A large portion of the time he was beyond the limits of civilization, and as the years passed he concluded that he was forgotten and that no one would care to hear from him.
He is now living with his mother on Pine street, and proposes to remain in this city. Of his two living children Henry F., lives at No. 1 O’Brien street West New Castle, and Alfred is a resident of Youngstown. These men have only the vaguest recollections of their father, whom they had naturally never expected to see again.
May 1, 1895
Mrs. Martha Wait widow of the late Rev. C. Wait, died Friday, April 26, aged 94 years and 7 months. Mrs. Wait had been ailing for some time with a complication of diseases brought on by old age but although everything possible was done for her she gradually grew worse until Friday when she fell asleep in Jesus. Mrs. Waite was an estimable lady and one who bore the love and respect of all who knew her. Funeral services Sunday, April 28 at 3 o’clock from the residence of her son-in-law, William Bryant, North Pine street, interment in Greenwood cemetery.
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New Castle Weekly News
July 31, 1889
Twenty eight years ago Alfred Waite enlisted at Pittsburgh in the Union army. At the close of the war he did not return home, and was supposed to be dead until a few days ago, when he appeared to his astonished relatives in this city, to find himself almost forgotten, his children dead or grown to manhood and his wife married again.
When the war broke out Mr. Waite lived with his wife and four children at Allegheny, and the call for men found him one of the first to respond. After a few months’ service be obtained a furlough, during which time he removed his family to this city, and immediately returned to his regiment. That was the last his wife saw of him, and during the latter part of the war, when his letters ceased, he was supposed to have been killed. This suspicion was intensified and almost verified when the boys in
blue came marching home and brought no word of Alfred Waite. Yes, he must be surely dead. So thought all who knew him, as day by day passed and he did not return. No one knew he was dead, yet no one believed he was living, thinking that he like many others filled an unknown grave on some southern battlefield.
Eliza Waite experienced in those years of waiting what is meant by hope deferred, and she at last was forced by circumstances to acknowledge that she was a widow. It was then that she yielded to the advances of a man named Harper Emery and married him. Children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Emery, but their marriage relations were not pleasant and they parted twelve years ago. Mrs. Emery now lives with her two sons and one daughter at 526 Sciota street, and her husband is supposed to be living in the neighborhood of Wampum.
A few days ago a well preserved man of 59 years appeared in this city, and with very little difficulty succeded in finding his way to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bryant, of Pine street, where Mrs. Martha Waite makes her home. Mrs. Martha Waite is the mother of the gray-haired stranger, and the relations of mother and son were speedily re-established. From his mother Mr. Waite learned of the changes that had taken place in his own family affairs. The situation at present is exceedingly delicate. With reference to himself he says that at the close of the war he in company with a number of comrades joined the regular army, in which he served about thirteen years in various parts of the west. On the expiration of his time in the service he went to railroading, and has been engaged in this work almost continually since then. He seemt to give no very satisfactory reasons for not writing to his family. A large portion of the time he was beyond the limits of civilization, and as the years passed he concluded that he was forgotten and that no one would care to hear from him.
He is now living with his mother on Pine street, and proposes to remain in this city. Of his two living children Henry F., lives at No. 1 O’Brien street West New Castle, and Alfred is a resident of Youngstown. These men have only the vaguest recollections of their father, whom they had naturally never expected to see again.
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