STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1903, page 8, column 5

CHARLES H. WESTERN, 04 Aug 1832 - 30 Aug 1903

   Charles H. Western was born in Wayne county, Ohio, Aug. 4. 1832, 
and died in Ashland, Wis., Aug. 30, 1903, aged 71 years and 26 
days.
   He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Whysong, in Angola, Dec. 
1888, and lived in Hudson, Ind., until about four years ago they 
moved to Lake Gagebie (Gogebic), Ontonagon county, Mich., where 
they resided until his death.  He leaves a wife and one son to 
mourn the loss of a kind and loving husband and father.  He was a 
member of the 74th Regiment in the late Rebellion, and was a member 
of the Masonic lodge at Hudson.  He died in the hospital at 
Ashland, Wis., and the remains were brought to Hudson, and buried 
in Circle cemetery, Sept. 2, 1903, by the Masonic lodge, Rev. 
McBride officiating.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

   Charles H. Western, 04 Aug 1832 - 30 Aug 1903, on 19 Dec 1888, 
married Elizabeth (Whysong) Western, born 18 1844, no date of 
death.  They are buried at O-HUD, Steuben County, Indiana.
Note:  There is no Lake Gagebie in Ontonagon County in the Upper 
Peninsula of Michigan, it is Lake Gogebic.

"Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990," by Audree Seibel 
Lewis, Vol. 2, page 1926.
Submitted by:  Mona Hilden-Beckwith
e-mail:  hilbeck123@att.net