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- King.GEDCOM. Electronic. Date of Import: December13, 2001.
[Bier.FTW]
[Don Maxwell .FTW]
Private in Co. F, 3rd Iowa Cal. Reg.
age 21. resident Fairfield, nativity Indiana
-enlisted Aug. 26, 1861 - mustered out of service Sep. 19, 1864
"History of Round Prairie Twp.", by Hiram Heaton
"Eliza Howard first married Henry Hugulet who served in Co. G, 30th Iowa, but died in the service; at the close of the war she married Abner Maxwell, who had served in the 3rd Iowa Calvary, by whom she had one son, William Maxwell, now of Beckwith, while she lives near Blakesburg, with her third husband, Johnson."
Jefferson County Republican, Sep. 9, 1898, p. 1, Col. 4, Broken Bow, NE
Maxwell-- at the residence of G. W. Fry, in this city yesterday afternoon, A. B. Maxwell, aged 59 years....Leaves a faithful wife and one child, Mrs. R. W. Wilburn, residing here, and a son living near Salina, Iowa, and a daughter in Michigan....He was a soldier in the Civil War, 3d Iowa Cal., Co. F, and an honorable member G. A. R. post of this city....
Fairfield Ledger, Jan. 13, 1870, p. 3, Col. 4
Notice of Warning. My wife having left my bed and board without just cause....A. B. Maxwell
ABNER B. MAXWELL MARRIED ELIZA HUGULET, THE WIDOW OF HENRY HUGULET (SEE NOTES OF HENRY HUGULET).
OBIT - A.B. MAXWELL
A.B. Maxwell
Old Civil War Soldier is gone from our Midst
A.B. Maxwell died August 31, 1898, of bowel obstruction, aged 59 years.
He leaves his faithful wife and one child, Mrs. R.W. Wilburn.
He resided here for a number of years, and was universally respected; was a honest man, honorable in all of his dealings and was a true Christian.
He was a Civil War soldier and veteran, and held membership in the Grand Army of the Republic Post.
Funeral was conducted Thursday morning, September 1, 1898 at 10:00am at the Frey residence, with G.A.R. rites for this old veteran. Burial followed in the cemetery at Broken Bow, Nebraska.
-newspaper account at time of his passing,
CUSTER COUNTRY CHIEF and/or REPUBLICAN,
printed in Broken Bow, Nebraska.
Gravestone reads:
A.B. Maxwell, Died August 31, 1898, aged
58 years, 11 months, 24 days,
G.A.R., Company F., 3rd Iowa Cavalry Volunteers.
"There Shall be No More Death."
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