from The Webster Times, April 2, 1897(Volume XL #5),
| At the meeting of the selectmen, Monday, a communication was received from Mr. E. D. Clemans, in behalf of Mrs. Samuel Emerson, whose husband was killed at Antietam , and was a member of Company I, 15th Mass. Regt., asking for aid from the town. The matter was laid on the table pending an investigation. |