Benjamin Garman, a well-known resident of Forreston, died Sunday evening, after being ill a year with cancer. He was 59 years, 2 months, and 6 days old and had been making his home with his aged mother here for the past twenty-six years. Mr. Garman was unmarried. Besides his mother, Elizabeth Garman, who is ill at St. Francis Hospital, brothers, Henry, of Freeport, Riley, of Forreston, and Andrew, of Elgin, Ill., and two sisters, Mrs. George Paul and Mrs. William Paul, of Brookville survive. The funeral will be held on Wednesday morning, the Rev. Mr. Wood officiating. Interment will be made in White Oak Cemetery.

April 29, 1918

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