JACOB K. BREWSTER -- 96th INFANTRYSERVED 1 YEAR, 4 MONTHS AND 21 DAYS - The Plattsburgh Daily Press of May19, 1899, carried this obituary - "It is not pleasant to record thedeath of one whose place in the community will remain vacant and whowill be exceptionally missed as long as he is remembered. There are notmany who leave behind such pleasant memories or are followed to the endwith such sincere sympathy and friendship. For to all who knew him, acheering voice is silent and a helping hand is closed. Nothing can bedone now in return but a brief recital.Jacob K. Brewster was born in Sutton, Quebec, on April 24, 1834, the sonof William Brewster and Elisabeth Kimmel, and died May 14, 1899, aged 65years. He came to Mooers with his people at a very early age. In 1857,he was married to Alvira Prescott, whom he survived. Of the fivechildren born to them, only two are living, Mrs. A. E. Ormsbee ofSaranac Lake, and Mrs. Cortez F. Chilton of Plattsburgh.He enlisted on November 10, 1861 in Mooers and served with particularcredit during the Civil War as a sergeant and lieutenant in Company Bunder Captain Stephen Moffitt of the 96th Regiment N. Y. S. V., takingan active part in the engagements at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Bottom'sBridge, Savage Station, Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, Seven Days' Battles,White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill and Goldsboro, resigning on March 31,1863, when the disability of which he finally died, compelled him toresign. He was a valued member of the Grand Army Post of Mooers, and atthe time of his death was Justice of the Peace.In 1897, he was married to Mrs. Martha R. Green of St. Lawrence County,and all the sympathy of the community is with her and his daughters intheir bereavement. He was a good man in all the relations of life."Jacob was buried with his first wife, Alvira, who died in 1895, in theMooers Riverside Cemetery. Sadly, their daughter Anna's husband, Cortez,died 11 months after his father-in-law at age 29.
