Bert Catlin was at Wethersfield last week to help care for his father James Catlin who passed away last

week Thursday With pneumonia. The funeral was held at the Evangelical church last Sunday at Wethersfield Springs.

Notice from the Western New Yorker, Warsaw, New York January 1917.

Son of Wesley James Catlin Male b. 1819 Java, Wyoming County, New York, United States d.1885 (65-66) Wyoming County, New York, United States, (the son of Joseph Catlin and Philena Catlin) and Maranda Catlin (Damon) b. 1818 d. 5 September 1846 (27-28) Java Lake, Wyoming County, New York, United States

Place of Burial: North Java, Wyoming County, New York, United States the daughter of David Damon and Susannah Torrey, married Wesley James Catlin

Mother, Maranda and her siblings:

Leonard Demmon

Robert Damon

Clarissa Damon

David Damon

Elvira Atwood

Susan Damon

Alonzo Damon

James Wesley Catlin married Chloe R. Catlin

Their children:

Jennie A Fisher b. January 06, 1871 Wethersfield, Wyoming County, NY, United States d.August 07, 1956 (85) m. Julian A. Fisher b. 1867 Wyoming County, New York, United States d. 1949

Herbert E. Catlin b. May 06, 1874 Wyoming County, New York, United States d. July 15, 1955 (81) Wethersfield Springs, Wethersfield, Wyoming, New York, United States (Heart failure) m. Lucetta May Akin b. October 10, 1882 Wyoming County, New York, United States d.March 28, 1922 (39) Wyoming County, New York, United States (complications after childbirth). daughter of Eugene Adelbert Akin and Bertha Akin

CIVIL WAR VETERAN: Enlisted November 4, 1861 at North Java, NY. Served with the 9th NY Cavalry, Company G, in the Virginia Peninsula Campaign, Gen. George B. McClellan commanding - Siege of Yorktown, and the Battle of Williamsburg under Generals Joseph Hooker, and George Stoneman. He was discharged disabled on November 25 1862.

Served with the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Buford Post 238, Johnsonburg, NY from 1881 until his death from pneumonia, at age 76, in January 1917.

Served his community of Wethersfield NY as Justice of the Peace and local school board member. Active in many community social events, local and regional politics, and served as elected delegate for the 1904 Democratic Presidential Nominating Convention in St. Louis for Alton B. Parker, running against Republican Theodore Roosevelt.

Ref.

New York State Adjutant General's Roster, 1895.

Military service records, National Archives, Washington D.C.

"Western New Yorker", local newspaper, Jan. 10, 1889, Dec.10, 1889,

"Local Boards of Health in the State of New York", Wyoming County Officers, Albany, 1890

"Wyoming County Times" local newspaper, Warsaw, New York: Oct. 2, 1890; Oct. 12, 1893; Oct. 10, 1895; May 19, 1898; Oct. 13, 1898; Sep. 21, 1904; Feb. 20, 1907; Apr. 8, 1908; May 6, 1908; May 12, 1908; Mar. 20, 1911; May 18, 1911.