Illinois Civil War Muster and
Descriptive Rolls Database:
www.ancestry.com - American Civil War Soldiers:
Nevens, William H. - CPL;
enlisted 23Marc1864; Co D, 32nd Infantry Regiment Maine; Union; Maine
Residence, Lewiston, Maine
Wounded 3June1864 at Bethesda Church, MD
Transferred, Co D, 31st Infantry
Regiment Maine, 1December1864
Honor Roll State of Illinois, Illinois
Veteran's Commission, Oct. 1, 1956:
William H. Nevans - Pvt -
Co D - 32 Maine Inf - died July 16, 1915
Buried Elmhurst Cemetery, Joliet, IL ,
Fairlawn Section
Headstone Reading, Elmhurst cemetery, Joliet, Illinois -
Fairlawn Section:
(one stone)
William
H. Nevens
1845-1915
|
Josephine
W. his wife
1849-1914
|
Will County Illinois USGenWeb
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Published Obituaries:
The Joliet
Evening Herald -Wednesday,
July 14, 1915 -Front Page
William H.
Nevens, for nearly twenty-nice years superintendent of schools of
Will county,
is dead at his late home, 109 Bartleson street,
aged over seventy years. He had been ill
with dropsy and confined to his home since April 9.
The end came at 2:10
o’clock this morning.
Mr. Nevens,
who was a native of Maine, was a civil war veteran, member of many
lodges, and
active in Republican politics for more than a quarter of a century. His death removes almost the last of the
civil war veterans holding elective county office in Will county.
It was in
1886 that Mr. Nevens was selected to make the race for county
superintendent of
schools, against William McKearnan, serving as school superintendent,
elected
by the Democrats. The Republican nominee
was then principal of the Crete public school
and was
elected. He held office continuously
since then.
Mr. Nevens
was born in Lewiston, Androscoggin
county, Maine, March 9, 1845, and enlisted
in the
Thirty-second Maine infantry as a private, serving throughout the war. He was a member of Mount Joliet Lodge, No.
42, A.F. and A.M. Joliet Chapter, No. 27, Joliet Commandery, No. 4
Knights
Templar, Joliet Council No. 82; R. and S.M. Paul Revere Lodge, No. 371,
Knights
of Pythias, Illinois Council, No. 1 Order of White Cross, Bartleson
Post No. 6
Grand Army of the Republic, and Mound City Camp, No. 112, Modern
Woodmen of
America.
Mr. Nevens
had served as Past Commander of Bartleson Post, Past Eminent Commander,
Joliet
Commander, No. 4 Knights Templar, also as Master of Crete lodge, A.F.
and
A.M. Mr. Nevens was a graduate of Bates
college, Lewiston, Maine. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Frank Chase,
of Lewiston, and two step
daughters, Miss Gertrude Gammon, of Joliet
and Mrs. S.P. Bumpus, of Everett, Massachusetts. Mrs. Bumpus reached Joliet
several days ago. Mr. Neven’s wife died
a few days before election day, last November.
The funeral
will be on Friday afternoon from the Masonic
Temple.
The body will lie in state at the temple,
from 10:30 o’clock in the
morning until
the funeral, which will be in charge of the Masonic order and the Grand
Army
Joliet Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar, will furnish the escort for
the
remains. These will be A.C. Van Horne,
E.W. Willard, J. B. Fithian, A.W. Hays, C.A. Groth and George M.
Scholl, all
Past Commanders. Honorary pall-bearers
will participate, representing the G.A.R. Burial
will be at Elmhurst. Dr. A. H. Laing will preach the funeral
sermon.
Friday, July 16, 1915 - Page 8
The funeral
of William H. Nevens was held this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from Masonic
Temple, 623
Jefferson street. The
Masonic order joined with Bartleson Post,
No. 6, Grand Army of the Republic, in the service.
Caleb H.
Thayer, Commander of Bartleson Post and Albert Ohlhayer, Eminent
Commander of
Knights Templar, Joliet Commandery, No. 4, led in the service. The pall-bearers were as announced in The
Herald-News, with the added honorary bearers selected from among the
past
commanders of Bartleson Post. These
were: John H. Wyss, E.W. Willard, H.H.
McGuire, D.N. Shipman, George W.
Carpenter, James G. Elwood, W.W. Gifford and Ben H. King. The list represented all the past living
commanders of the post except one, John
Lambert, who was not able to act.
The
remains
lay in state from 10:30 o’clock
until the time of the funeral. The
service was short on account of the heat. Dr.
A.H. Laing spoke for ten minutes. From his
remarks and also those of E.W. Willard, who
read the army
record of the dead comrade, it appeared that Mr. Nevens had seen heavy
service.
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