Walpole Recipients of The Boston Post Cane


Name of Recipient...Date Cane was Given...Age of Recipient...Date of Death


Porter Boyden..........(not recorded)......................91.........................1930

Samuel Hannaford...July of 1931........................92......................Jan., 1933

George Kingsbury....1935.............................................................Nov. 10, 1939

Edmund F. Gay.......January of 1940..................91........................ 1941

Theodore Shafter......February of 1943................89......................July, 1943

Henry Hildebrand....Sep. 23, 1943......................89......................(not available)

Joseph Greenwood...1957...................................95......................Feb., 1958

Leroy F. Spear.........August of 1970..................100.....................Sep., 1978

Frank Smith.............1983..............................................................Feb. 6, 1992

Grace M. Speir.........1986...................................100.......................1991

Maude Allen............April 8, 1994.......................103....................Oct. 15, 1994
Gertrude Nelson......April 8, 1994........................103....................Oct. 3, 1995
--(Maude Allen and Gertrude Nelson were both born April 23, 1891)

Georgie Marie Meyer...Dec. 1, 1995.....................102...................