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- Phelps NY Citizen - 8/29/1918
After a considerable period of ill
health, Mrs. Ada Edgecomb Benham
of Canandaigua died on Tuesday
afternoon In the Gordon hospital at
Rochester, where she had gone as a
patient a little more than a week before.
Mrs. Benham, the daughter of
Henry Edgecomb, was born In
Phelps on June 2,1862. Her early life
was spent in this village, where she
had been visiting more or less for the
past year. She was married to
George Benham, who survives her,
wltb a son and daughter, Howard
and Inez Benham. She also leaves
two sisters, Mrs. Julia Severance
and Miss Minnie Edgecomb.
The funeral will be held this
afternoon at St. John's Episcopal
church, Phelpa, after the arrival of
the body by the noon train, and Interment
will be made In Rest Haven.
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