ARMFIELD, Claude
Date of death: 1901
Source: Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 15, 1901
DIED ON THE “PEGASUS.”
Hamilton Armfield, now a resident of Franklin, is in receipt of a letter from Consul General Osborne, at London, England, dated January 22, saying that Claude Armfield, a seaman on the vessel “Pegasus” had died and an account of the wages and effects belonging to same had been furnished him. He asked for information as to the heirs and residence of the seaman.
The young man is a son of Hamilton Armfield and is twenty years old. Last July he left home, then with his parents at Smith’s Valley, and started west. Mr. Armfield since then had received but two letters from his son, one written from a point in the Rocky mountains soon after his leaving, and the second from San Francisco. In the latter he directed his father to address a reply to Queenstown, Ireland. Since then no word had come to him from his son until the U.S. consul general’s letter told of his death. From the letter it appears that young Armfield was in the service of the British government.
Submitted by Cathea Curry