PRINCETON CLARION 3/6/1908--

           BEN MASSEY DEAD

   Veteran of Civil War Joins Ranks of Departed Comrades

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  Ben Massey, aged 70, a veteran of the Civil War, Co. H, 17th Indiana, died of Brights disease, Thursday night at his home in Owensville.  The funeral will be from the house at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning.  A wife and two sons survive, Abe and Willard Massey of Owensville.  Three children are dead.  Mr. Massey was a brother of the late John B. Massey of this city.

  Mr. Massey had been ill sometime and had been gradually sinking.  He was well-known in the vicinity of Owensville, and in the county generally.