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War Soldiers Record:
William
H. Birdsell - PVT - Co D - 2nd Cavalry Regiment Minnesota
Enlisted 18Dec1863; Age, 32
Promoted to Full Corporal
Promoted to Full Sergeant
Received a disability
discharge 16Oct1865
Honor Roll State of Illinois, Illinois Veterans
Commission, Oct 1, 1956:
Birdsall,
Wm. H. - SGT - Co D - 2 MN Cav
Died, 25Aug1917; Buried, Oakwood Cemetery,
Joliet, Section 24
Headstone Reading, Oakwood Cemetery, Joliet, Illinois,
Block 24, Lot 74, Grave 4:
(Separate Stones)
William H. Birdsell
January 5, 1831
January 25, 1917
|
Mary
B. Birdsell
December 19, 1837
July 29, 1905
|
John
J. Ducker
March 8, 1865
December 2, 1920
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(GAR marker)
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Published Obituaries:
Joliet
Evening
Herald , January 25, 1917, Front Page
William H.
Birdsell, veteran of the Civil War and a resident of
Joliet
for more than 80 years, died this afternoon at
1 o’clock, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.F.
Skeel,
120 Dewey avenue.
Death was
hastened by a fall which Mr. Birdsell had last week, when he slipped on
the ice
in the rear of his residence,
202 Hyde Park
avenue.
He was
taken to the home of Mrs. Skeel, but
he failed to rally from the shock.
He
had been in failing health for some time.
Mrs.
Birdsell was a native of
Canada,
and in his younger days conducted a general store in
Minnesota.
Coming to
Joliet,
he accumulated some property, and the care of this has occupied his
attention
every since.
Mrs. Birdsell died
July 29, 1904.
One son and
four daughters survive.
The son is
Charles M. Birdsell, of
Joliet.
The daughters are Mrs. J.F. Skeel, Mrs. J.J.
Ducker and Mrs. A.E. Vance, all of Joliet, and Mrs. C.A. Huber, of
Tama,
Iowa.
Mr.
Birdsell was a member of Bartleson Post, No. 6, Grand Army of the
Republic.
Funeral
notice will be given later.
Joliet
Evening
Herald-News, Friday,
January 26, 1917,Page 2
The funeral of
William H. Birdsell,
who died at
the home of his son-in-law, J. F. Skeel,
120
Dewey avenue yesterday, will be held
tomorrow afternoon
at
2 o’clock from the home
of J. F.
Skeel, the Rev. A. H. Laing officiating.
Bartleson
Post No. 6 G.A.R. will also take part in the
services.
Burial in Oakwood.
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