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Brattleboro Reformer
DEATH TODAY OF AMASA T. EDDY
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Civil War Veteran and Fromer Railroad Man Succumbs to Bronchial
Pneumonia--Taken Ill Thursday
Amasa Thomas Eddy, 83, Civil war veteran and a former railroad man,
died between 10 and 11 o'clock this forenoon in the Memorial hospital,
where he was taken Saturday afternoon. Death was due to bronchial
pneumonia. Mr. Eddy was taken ill Thursday.
He was a son of Thomas and Fanny (Foskett) Eddy and was born in Orange,
Mass., June 1, 1840. He entered the employ of the Vermont and
MA Railroad Co., as a young man, and it was on his return
from his run that he alighted from his train at Fitchburg, Mass. Aug.
27, 1862, and went directly to the recruiting office to enlist for
sevice in the Civil war. He was mustered in Oct. 17, in Company B, 53d
MA regiment, and for a time the regiment was quartered in the
Franklin street barracks in New York. While there Mr. Eddy was promoted
to corporal and later to sergeant. The regiment was mustered out of
service in Groton, Mass., Sept. 2, 1863.
Mr. Eddy returned to work for the Vermont and MA Railroad
Co., and then became a messenger for the United Stated & Canadian
Express Co., and for eight years ran between Greenfield and Boston. For
a time he ran between Worcester, Mass., and Nashua, N.H. Later he
returned to his native town of Orange and worked in a store there seven
years. The year after he returned from the war he married Miss
Elizabeth A. Bacon of Orange, who died in 1872. In 1876 Mr. Eddy came
to Brattleboro and on Nov. 19 of that year he married Miss Emma M.
Streeter of Bellows Falls. She died May 19, 1922.
For 23 years after coming to Brattleboro, Mr. Eddy was freight cashier
for the Central Vemont railroad, afterwards being bookkeeper at Henry R.
Brown's livery stable, which for many years was located in the so-called
Ray building which stood at the corner of Main and Flat streets on the
site now occupied by the Barber building. In 1912 he began work for
E.B. Barrows & Co., coal dealers, and for several years was in charge of
weighing coal. For the past five years he had been unable to work.
Mr. Eddy leaves a son, Dr. Walter H. Eddy of New York and a daughter,
Mrs. Rufus M. Houghton, with whom he lived at 163 Main street, also five
grandchildren.
The funeral arrangements have not been made.
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