(died December 26, 1930)

Burial services for Mrs. Estella Cramer Benson of Brooklyn, wife of Samuel A. Benson, a former resident of Massena, were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Interment was made in Pine Grove cemetery.

Mrs. Benson died in Brooklyn last Friday morning. The funeral was held there. The body arrived in Massena by train Sunday morning and was taken to the home of Mr. Benson’s sister, Mrs. Samuel Crowley on Pine street.

Mrs. Benson was born in Norwood about 54 years ago and 30 years ago married Samuel A. Benson of Massena. Twelve years ago they moved to Brooklyn to reside.

Surviving are her husband, four daughters, Miss Helen Benson, Mrs. Andrew Bostwick, Mrs. Franklin Palmer and Miss Esther Benson, all of Brooklyn, and two brothers, Merrill Cramer of Watertown, Mass., and Melvin Cramer of Watertown, N.Y.

(From the Friday, January 2, 1931 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder, page four. Courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ news.nnyln.net).