Wilmun Halsey | Obituary

Southampton Press | 24 May 1928

Billy Halsey | Cincinnati | c1926

Little Wilmun, youngest son of Rev. and Mrs. Jesse Halsey of Cincinnati, Ohio, died on Sunday last as the result of an automobile accident. The funeral was held on Tuesday in the Seventh Church of which Rev. Mr. Halsey is minister and the burial was made in the family plot in the Southampton cemetery on Wednesday afternoon. A brief and impressive service was held in the Halsey home, North Main street, where the [?] by neighbors and friends who will [?] [Billy was] well known in the neighborhood and a favorite among all his playmates. Wilmun was eight years old, and the hearts of very many go out in sympathy to the stricken family in their deep and irreparable loss.

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Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, D.D., was in Southampton to conduct the funeral servce held for the little son of Rev. and Mrs. Jesse Halsey on Wednesday afternoon. Rev John Christie of the Mt. Auburn Presbyterian church in Cincinnati and Rev. David Garrett Smith assisted with the service.

Dr. Coffin is well known in Southampton, as when a boy his parents made their summer home here. Before becoming president of Union Theological Seminary he was for sixteen years the pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian church in New York City.