Alfred Hemmant

   Alfred Hemmant died at the home of his daughter in Arkansas in October 1912.  He was born in Ohio in 1 842.  He served as Lieutenant Co. E. 17th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry.  He married Mary Kavanagh.  They had 8 children.  They came to  Kansas in 1880.  He was the rural mail carrier in Halstead for 25 years.

   Buirial was in the Halstetad Cemetery.