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Subject: OBITUARY - WILLIAM C. HEBENER

Date: Monday, April 16, 2001 10:54 PM

Decatur County Journal

February 9, l893

After an illness of ten days WILLIAM C. HEBENER paid nature's final

debt, passing away at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Though MR. HEBENER had been

but a short time in Woodland, his upright conduct and gentlemanly

demeanor had won the high regard of those with whom he was thrown in

contact by business intercourse.

Several months ago he came to Woodland from his Iowa home and started a

marble yard. It was his intention to send for his family as soon as the

winter was over and two months ago a son, C.H. Hebener, came to aid his

father in his business. A peculiarly sad feature of his death was the

absence of his entire family with the exception of the one son.

MR. HEBENER was born in Lexington, Kentucky, December 24, l840. When a

young man he moved to Virginia, where he was married. His surviving

family consists of a wife and eight children, now living in Leon, Iowa.

MR. HEBENER was a Grand Army man, having served two years in the First

Virginia Cavalry as First Sergeant.

For many years he has been afflicted with bronchitis and it was this

lung trouble that made him an easy victim to the fatal pleuro-pneumonia.

The body will be embalmed and taken east in charge of his son, C.H.

HEBENER, who expects to leave Woodland Friday morning.

In this connection C.H. HEBENER wishes to express his heartfelt thanks

for the many acts of kindness shown by the people of Woodland during his

father's fatal illness.

--Woodland (Cal.) Mail

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