Another veteran has answered the last roll call and has gone to meet the Great Commander.
William Vance, a well known pension agent and real estate dealer, and a veteran of the Civil war, died at his late home on North 6th street Cambridge, Wednesday March sic at 3:50 o'clock, after a long illness of cancer of the liver. Mr. Vance had been in poor health ever since last summer, and had been confined to his home for the last three months.
William Vance was born in Noble county September 27th, 1847, and came with his parents when still a lad to Guernsey county where he grew to manhood. He served with distinction throughout the Civil war, enlisting first with Co. B, 185th regiment, and re-enlisted in Co. (unable to read), 172nd regiment, with which he served until the end of the war.
He was united in marriage at Antrim, this county, May 13th 1869, to Mary Jane Bean, who with the two children, Lon Vance, and Mrs. Fred Loper, both of this city, survive him.
On his return from the war he engaged in the carriage making and blacksmith business which he continued until about ten years ago and then took up the pension agency and real estate business which he thereafter followed.
The funeral services will be held in the M.E. church, of which deceased was a member, Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, conducted by his pastor, Rev. W.B. Winters, assisted by Rev. S.S. Fisher and Rev. Dr. McFarlaand. The services will be attended by the Cambridge G.A.R. Post, of which Mr. Vance was a member, and the Woman's Relief Corps. Interment in Northwood cemetery.
Cambridge Jeffersonian, 7 April 1904
William Vance, a well known pension agent and real estate dealer, and a veteran of the Civil war, died at his late home on North 6th street Cambridge, Wednesday March sic at 3:50 o'clock, after a long illness of cancer of the liver. Mr. Vance had been in poor health ever since last summer, and had been confined to his home for the last three months.
William Vance was born in Noble county September 27th, 1847, and came with his parents when still a lad to Guernsey county where he grew to manhood. He served with distinction throughout the Civil war, enlisting first with Co. B, 185th regiment, and re-enlisted in Co. (unable to read), 172nd regiment, with which he served until the end of the war.
He was united in marriage at Antrim, this county, May 13th 1869, to Mary Jane Bean, who with the two children, Lon Vance, and Mrs. Fred Loper, both of this city, survive him.
On his return from the war he engaged in the carriage making and blacksmith business which he continued until about ten years ago and then took up the pension agency and real estate business which he thereafter followed.
The funeral services will be held in the M.E. church, of which deceased was a member, Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, conducted by his pastor, Rev. W.B. Winters, assisted by Rev. S.S. Fisher and Rev. Dr. McFarlaand. The services will be attended by the Cambridge G.A.R. Post, of which Mr. Vance was a member, and the Woman's Relief Corps. Interment in Northwood cemetery.
Cambridge Jeffersonian, 7 April 1904
Another veteran has answered the last roll call and has gone to meet the Great Commander.
William Vance, a well known pension agent and real estate dealer, and a veteran of the Civil war, died at his late home on North 6th street Cambridge, Wednesday March sic at 3:50 o'clock, after a long illness of cancer of the liver. Mr. Vance had been in poor health ever since last summer, and had been confined to his home for the last three months.
William Vance was born in Noble county September 27th, 1847, and came with his parents when still a lad to Guernsey county where he grew to manhood. He served with distinction throughout the Civil war, enlisting first with Co. B, 185th regiment, and re-enlisted in Co. (unable to read), 172nd regiment, with which he served until the end of the war.
He was united in marriage at Antrim, this county, May 13th 1869, to Mary Jane Bean, who with the two children, Lon Vance, and Mrs. Fred Loper, both of this city, survive him.
On his return from the war he engaged in the carriage making and blacksmith business which he continued until about ten years ago and then took up the pension agency and real estate business which he thereafter followed.
The funeral services will be held in the M.E. church, of which deceased was a member, Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, conducted by his pastor, Rev. W.B. Winters, assisted by Rev. S.S. Fisher and Rev. Dr. McFarlaand. The services will be attended by the Cambridge G.A.R. Post, of which Mr. Vance was a member, and the Woman's Relief Corps. Interment in Northwood cemetery.
Cambridge Jeffersonian, 7 April 1904
William Vance, a well known pension agent and real estate dealer, and a veteran of the Civil war, died at his late home on North 6th street Cambridge, Wednesday March sic at 3:50 o'clock, after a long illness of cancer of the liver. Mr. Vance had been in poor health ever since last summer, and had been confined to his home for the last three months.
William Vance was born in Noble county September 27th, 1847, and came with his parents when still a lad to Guernsey county where he grew to manhood. He served with distinction throughout the Civil war, enlisting first with Co. B, 185th regiment, and re-enlisted in Co. (unable to read), 172nd regiment, with which he served until the end of the war.
He was united in marriage at Antrim, this county, May 13th 1869, to Mary Jane Bean, who with the two children, Lon Vance, and Mrs. Fred Loper, both of this city, survive him.
On his return from the war he engaged in the carriage making and blacksmith business which he continued until about ten years ago and then took up the pension agency and real estate business which he thereafter followed.
The funeral services will be held in the M.E. church, of which deceased was a member, Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, conducted by his pastor, Rev. W.B. Winters, assisted by Rev. S.S. Fisher and Rev. Dr. McFarlaand. The services will be attended by the Cambridge G.A.R. Post, of which Mr. Vance was a member, and the Woman's Relief Corps. Interment in Northwood cemetery.
Cambridge Jeffersonian, 7 April 1904
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