Benjamin Franklin Burgess

Payette Enterprise
Thursday, September 09, 1915

DEATH OF B. F. BURGESS

Benjamin Franklin Burgess, aged 72 years, 7 months and 19 days, died at his home in Washoe, Sunday night death being caused by neuralgia of the heart. Funeral services were conducted from the family residence at 2 o'clock Wednesday, by Rev. Rittenhaus of Ontario, Oregon, of the denomination of Seventh Day Adventists, of which church deceased had been a consistent member. Deceased was a War Veteran with a commendable record, tho not a member of the local G. A. R. Post. He was a good citizen, an exemplary husband and father and leaves a wife and several children to mourn his loss. He was an old resident of the Washoe community.

Payette Independent (Thursday, September 09, 1915)

DIED: Benjamin Franklin Burgess died last Sunday evening at his home near Payette, of neuralgia of the heart, at the age of 72 yrs., 7 mon., 19 days. The funeral service was held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Rittenhouse, of Ontario, of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Mr. Burgess saw hard service in the war of the sixties, and while not a member of the G. A. R. was an honored "old soldier" and citizen. Another old comrade has joined the "silent majority" in the country where they know no wars "nor rumors of war." "They are falling from the ranks one by one."