SEELEY – In this city, at Vassar Brothers’ Home for Aged Men, September 2, 1914, Rufus A. Seeley, in the 85th year of his age.
Funeral services will be held at the Home, Friday, September 4th, at two o’clock, p.m. Relatives and friends, members of the G.A.R., also Board of Managers, are respectfully invited.
Published in the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle, Friday, September 4, 1914 page 3
DEATH OF RUFUS A. SEELEY
Rufus A. Seeley died at the Vassar Brothers Home for Old Men on Wednesday, September 2, 1914, aged 84 years.
A few weeks ago, he went to Brooklyn to visit his wife and children and while there became ill. He did not improve on his return to Poughkeepsie, but grew gradually worse until the end came.
He was the second of thirteen children of William and Sally Anson Seeley and was born in the town of Stanford where he spent the earlier years of his life. In 1862, he enlisted in Company A, 150th Regt, N.Y. Volunteers, and was promoted to Sergeant the following April. His health failing he was discharged for disability in August, 1863.
After the war he conducted a photographic studio where the Gallup studio now is. He married Sally Antoinette Latham, who survived him with two sons, John Seeley of Poughkeepsie, Lincoln Seeley of Brooklyn and a daughter, Mrs. Edward Pelham, of Brooklyn.
He was a comrade of the G.A.R. and since the consolidation of Hamilton and Sleight Posts, has been chaplain. He served in that office in the Hamilton Post before the consolidation. He was a faithful Christian, being connected with the Baptist Church, a man of exemplary character in every respect, and an author of no mean ability, he having written a number of beautiful articles, among them a tribute to the memory of President Lincoln, an apostrophe to the Stars and Stripes and others. He was always a prominent speaker at all G.A.R. functions.
Funeral services will be held at the Vassar Brothers’ Home for Aged Men Friday afternoon at two o’clock by the G.A.R. Interment will be in the Rural Cemetery.
Published in the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle, Thursday, September 3, 1914 page 5
Seeley Funeral Services
The Rev. Frank Burr Crispell, pastor of the Hedding M.E. Church officiated Friday afternoon at the funeral services of Rufus A. Seeley, who died at the Vassar Brothers’ Home for Aged Men. Clarence E. Earl, of Brooklyn, a close friend of Mr. Seeley, sang a solo. Services were held from the Home and a representative number of the members of the G.A.R. were present, the bearers being chosen from the ranks of the G.A.R.
At the grave the G.A.R. held their customary services and Mr. Earl sang a solo. The burial was in the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery in the G.A.R. plot. Undertaker Harry J. Selfridge was in charge of the funeral arrangements and burial
Published in the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle, Saturday, September 5, 1914 page 6
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