Obit: Sires, Orley (1867? - 1943)

 

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Surnames: Sires, Jacobson, Alderman, Birch, Graham, Posternock

 

----Source: Humbird Enterprise (Humbird, Clark Co., Wis.) 03/06/1943

 

Sires, Orley (1867? - 22 FEB 1943)

 

The following item is from the Framingham (Mass.) Evening News of Feb. 23rd:

 

"Orley D. Sires, 75, of 3 Edgell Rd., died last evening at the Framington Union Hospital.  He was a retired station agent and was for 54 years in the railroad business in the west and with the New Haven Railroad.  He formerly resided in Dighton, Mass.

 

"Surviving are his wife, Caroline (Jacobson) Sires, a son, Homer A. of Auburndale, three daughters, Mrs. Chas. Birch of Norwalk, Calif., Mrs. J.W. Graham of Alhambra, Calif., and Mrs. J. Posternock of Somerville, N.J., and seven grandchildren.

 

"He was a member of the Dighton Methodist Church and of the Somerset Lodge, A.F. & A.M.

 

"The funeral will take place at Cookson Chapel, 318 Union Ave., Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. John Hillman Lavely of the Wesley Methodist Church officiating.  Interment will be in Dighton."

 

Orley Sires was a son of William and Eliza Sires, and as far as is known was the last surviving member of a family of several sons and daughters.  He was born at Hunters’ Home, and in the early ‘70’s the family moved into the village (Humbird, Clark Co., Wis.), erecting the Sires house which was burned two years ago.  He learned telegraphy and station work under Home E. Wescott, and succeeded Mr. Wescott as local agent after a nine month apprenticeship, in the late ‘80’s.  Mr. Sires served as agent here until 1904, when he was transferred to Cumberland.  Several years later he left the employ of the Omaha Ry., moving to New Jersey and later to Massachusetts, where he retired after more than half a century of station work.  His first wife preceded him in death a number of years ago.  She was Lyda Alderman, only daughter of Albert and Eunice Alderman, pioneer residents of this village.

 

 


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