Show OLDEST PR YAR VETERAN William am Welch Still Sti Lives at atthe atthe atthe the Ripe Age of Years Manchester N. N IL I. I June Juno 17 All Al All the he people of or N. N II It I. I doff their limits lints und anti make straight his path when William llam Welch Velch travels tra lit lii 11 the street street Anti And well wl ehi tho they might accor accord this mark of respect to William llam Welch for or in aU aLl aU Us its Is environs en has no greater citizen than this man who at lOG years of age is ed- ed edly the oldest veteran of the time Civil Civi war and the oldest Mason of the thc Un United I I States Naturally of strict moral morl habits the time flight Ight of time has not Impaired an any of or his Imis and there hero Is nothing he lie likes better than to relate the lie many changes ho has hns seen In the world worM during dun dur mIns m Pig ing Ins his lila long hong life Io He lie was born In iii St. St St An Andrews Andrew's N. N B n. March 29 9 1800 and was sas a loyal loal sub sub- led to 0 the late queen until he lie moved mo cc to otho tho thio United States States H He grow gross up around the neighbor neighbor- lood Andrews Andrew's ws w's on 1842 2 18 married MI Miss Eleanor Thompson Thomp homp hompson son SOIl of that place EI ht Children L ln I LIving He lie Ic soon after came to r where hll ten children were born to the couple Eight ot of th them m are now liv liv- In lug ing I Soon oon after Mr Welch Velch married he became a boss bos lumberman and employed employed em em- as man many as seventy five sc o men menat menat menat at a time for a period of six or seven een years It I often oren happened that a score of these men muon mel boarded at his Ills own house anti and Mrs Welch Velch worked for she sho dill did for her lien own hwn family The woman of to today said Mid Mr Welch Velch In speaking of the matter re recently recently re- re centy can hardly Conceive of the lie ener energy labor and housewifely talent displayed h by m my Iny young oung wife In lim the wilds of the thc lumber I country countr caving carIng for a crew ow of of mon men who vIrn sawed swell U up millions of feet feet of lumber into laths In one ono season tenson beside many thou thousands of feet of other Ithel schedule timber limber ancs In one nile season SCion feet teet In the rou rough h was worked the time crew going Into camp In September and returning In Jul July II ts In iii Civil War ur After Fort Sumpter was as fired upon the tho patriotism of Mr Welch was vas aroused and in August he ime en on- listed and served through tim the lw war var antil un un- tl til he was discharged at S Savannah Ga Ga In July Jub 1866 1865 He lIe le was a n member mem mem- ber her of the Fourteenth New Hamp shire regiment anti and was called the father tather o of his lib regiment regiment caled Ho lIe was wa 10 probably the time oldest enlisted man in the tl Union army He lie le first attempted to enlist with the wih Ninth Nt New Hampshire volunteers but as he hc refused to subscribe to a falsehood false false- hood hoo and claim he lie was wm forty five years vears of uge as the lie war WUI requirements fortY lve demanded he was rejected He lie then lien misled enlisted with wih the Fourt Fourteenth New Hampshire regiment Ho lie le lenH was nH as never ne si sick I. I nn and followed the lie regiment through nil all nl its It vicissitudes and dan tJan- gers being In gels man maim many fierce erce cl engage engage- a e- e ments meats the first at al Winchester Wounded Three hl Times He lie was wounded nt at Cedar Creek being hit hilt hi throe three lines limes one of or the Iho Creek balls bails passing through hits his right arm alm an- an uther othmer tHou through h the time leg and the lime third taking effect In iii II tho tIme left lef shoulder TIc He- le was taken to York YOlk Pa la and when recovered o obtained a fur fUr- lough of or ten days dnN and amid was at homo hom to ote vote for Abraham Lincoln for a term returning to the time field eh of or active e service and Ild participating In throe three sev severe se re engagements n Mr Mi- Welch elch was aN a member of the lie artillery company tinnIng during the troublous ous otis times called calell the time Madawaska when tho time boundaries of Maine were wirt being e established anti and was the he first firstman man drafted In Calais The Time sent to col collect ct time the tw tax taxes were welO arrested and time the soldiery was as stationed at Fort Held Fall nearly three months before the he difficulty was settled Bellied He lIe le Is probably u l the tilt oldest living Mason In iii the United States He lie Joined time the Odd Fellows in Clais Calais In 1831 and the time following year ear became a n member of or the thio Sussex lodge of ot Masons of New Ness the chart charter or corning coring from rom tho the grand gland loll lodge o oat at al Dublin He lie Is especially honored IJ by time the comrades of the Iho Grand Army my 11 and amid to him is ascribed the lie privilege c of ot being a n member of or two posts time hosts tho tho Major Jarvis Jarl Post of Claremont and amid an nn honorary hon lion member of Lincoln Post lost of f |