Obit for John Abraham:
J. B. Abraham
J. B. Abraham was born on Nov. 13. 1840, at Steubenville, Ohio, a aon of John R. and Margaret Moore Abraham. The second in a family of six children, he attended school in Steubenville until 1853, when he was thirteen years of age. In that year both his father and mother died, and the boy then went to Cleveland, Ohio, near which place he was employed in farm work. From there in April, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil War, joining Company B, Seventh Ohio Volunteers. At the end or three months service he was honorably discharged, but re-enlisted in August, 1862, in the 103d Ohio Regiment. He was honorably discharged at Raleigh, N. C., on June 12, 1865, with the rank of coporal.
He took part in the followinic battles: Blue Springs, Tenn.; Knoxville, Tenn.: Dandridge; Resaca, Ga.; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.; Atlanta, Ga.; Spring Hill, Tenn.
In the fall of 1865, Mr. Abraham in LaFayette Township the farm on which he resided until coming to Waverly to make his home. On Dec. 3, of the same year be was united in marriage with Miss Lucy P. Crosier of Cuyahoga, Ohio, and to them were born two sons, Bremer Abraham, who still resides in LaFayette Township and Ross Rufus of Salt Lake City, Utah, and one daughter, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Woodmansee of Cleveland, Ohio, all of whom, with their mother, mourn the death of a kind and loving husband and father.
The deceased gentleman was a member of Robbins Post, G. A. R, and until the time when the infirmities of old age prevented his attendance at their meetings, he sought on all possible occasions the companionship of the men Who had been his comrades1 during the trying days of the war times.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 o'clock last Sunday afternoon from the Methodist Episcopal church in this city, Rev. Clifford Bacon, pastor of the church officiating. Mr. Abraham's comrades of the G. A. R. attended the services in a body, as did also the members of the American Legion, and the burial service at Harlington Cemetery was carried out in military order.
J. B. Abraham
J. B. Abraham was born on Nov. 13. 1840, at Steubenville, Ohio, a aon of John R. and Margaret Moore Abraham. The second in a family of six children, he attended school in Steubenville until 1853, when he was thirteen years of age. In that year both his father and mother died, and the boy then went to Cleveland, Ohio, near which place he was employed in farm work. From there in April, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil War, joining Company B, Seventh Ohio Volunteers. At the end or three months service he was honorably discharged, but re-enlisted in August, 1862, in the 103d Ohio Regiment. He was honorably discharged at Raleigh, N. C., on June 12, 1865, with the rank of coporal.
He took part in the followinic battles: Blue Springs, Tenn.; Knoxville, Tenn.: Dandridge; Resaca, Ga.; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.; Atlanta, Ga.; Spring Hill, Tenn.
In the fall of 1865, Mr. Abraham in LaFayette Township the farm on which he resided until coming to Waverly to make his home. On Dec. 3, of the same year be was united in marriage with Miss Lucy P. Crosier of Cuyahoga, Ohio, and to them were born two sons, Bremer Abraham, who still resides in LaFayette Township and Ross Rufus of Salt Lake City, Utah, and one daughter, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Woodmansee of Cleveland, Ohio, all of whom, with their mother, mourn the death of a kind and loving husband and father.
The deceased gentleman was a member of Robbins Post, G. A. R, and until the time when the infirmities of old age prevented his attendance at their meetings, he sought on all possible occasions the companionship of the men Who had been his comrades1 during the trying days of the war times.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 o'clock last Sunday afternoon from the Methodist Episcopal church in this city, Rev. Clifford Bacon, pastor of the church officiating. Mr. Abraham's comrades of the G. A. R. attended the services in a body, as did also the members of the American Legion, and the burial service at Harlington Cemetery was carried out in military order.
Obit for John Abraham:
J. B. Abraham
J. B. Abraham was born on Nov. 13. 1840, at Steubenville, Ohio, a aon of John R. and Margaret Moore Abraham. The second in a family of six children, he attended school in Steubenville until 1853, when he was thirteen years of age. In that year both his father and mother died, and the boy then went to Cleveland, Ohio, near which place he was employed in farm work. From there in April, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil War, joining Company B, Seventh Ohio Volunteers. At the end or three months service he was honorably discharged, but re-enlisted in August, 1862, in the 103d Ohio Regiment. He was honorably discharged at Raleigh, N. C., on June 12, 1865, with the rank of coporal.
He took part in the followinic battles: Blue Springs, Tenn.; Knoxville, Tenn.: Dandridge; Resaca, Ga.; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.; Atlanta, Ga.; Spring Hill, Tenn.
In the fall of 1865, Mr. Abraham in LaFayette Township the farm on which he resided until coming to Waverly to make his home. On Dec. 3, of the same year be was united in marriage with Miss Lucy P. Crosier of Cuyahoga, Ohio, and to them were born two sons, Bremer Abraham, who still resides in LaFayette Township and Ross Rufus of Salt Lake City, Utah, and one daughter, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Woodmansee of Cleveland, Ohio, all of whom, with their mother, mourn the death of a kind and loving husband and father.
The deceased gentleman was a member of Robbins Post, G. A. R, and until the time when the infirmities of old age prevented his attendance at their meetings, he sought on all possible occasions the companionship of the men Who had been his comrades1 during the trying days of the war times.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 o'clock last Sunday afternoon from the Methodist Episcopal church in this city, Rev. Clifford Bacon, pastor of the church officiating. Mr. Abraham's comrades of the G. A. R. attended the services in a body, as did also the members of the American Legion, and the burial service at Harlington Cemetery was carried out in military order.
J. B. Abraham
J. B. Abraham was born on Nov. 13. 1840, at Steubenville, Ohio, a aon of John R. and Margaret Moore Abraham. The second in a family of six children, he attended school in Steubenville until 1853, when he was thirteen years of age. In that year both his father and mother died, and the boy then went to Cleveland, Ohio, near which place he was employed in farm work. From there in April, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil War, joining Company B, Seventh Ohio Volunteers. At the end or three months service he was honorably discharged, but re-enlisted in August, 1862, in the 103d Ohio Regiment. He was honorably discharged at Raleigh, N. C., on June 12, 1865, with the rank of coporal.
He took part in the followinic battles: Blue Springs, Tenn.; Knoxville, Tenn.: Dandridge; Resaca, Ga.; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.; Atlanta, Ga.; Spring Hill, Tenn.
In the fall of 1865, Mr. Abraham in LaFayette Township the farm on which he resided until coming to Waverly to make his home. On Dec. 3, of the same year be was united in marriage with Miss Lucy P. Crosier of Cuyahoga, Ohio, and to them were born two sons, Bremer Abraham, who still resides in LaFayette Township and Ross Rufus of Salt Lake City, Utah, and one daughter, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Woodmansee of Cleveland, Ohio, all of whom, with their mother, mourn the death of a kind and loving husband and father.
The deceased gentleman was a member of Robbins Post, G. A. R, and until the time when the infirmities of old age prevented his attendance at their meetings, he sought on all possible occasions the companionship of the men Who had been his comrades1 during the trying days of the war times.
Funeral services were held at 2:00 o'clock last Sunday afternoon from the Methodist Episcopal church in this city, Rev. Clifford Bacon, pastor of the church officiating. Mr. Abraham's comrades of the G. A. R. attended the services in a body, as did also the members of the American Legion, and the burial service at Harlington Cemetery was carried out in military order.
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