12 MAY 2020, Memorial notes/at time of transfer. Added gender. Photo from the Library of Congress has him as a Colonel in the Spanish-American War, the First Arkansas Volunteer Infantry. His collar brass reads "U.S.V." for United States Volunteers. My initial guess would be the rank on his monument is incorrect, Library of Congress info is usually pretty reliable. Maybe someone forgot he had been promoted toward the end of the war, and just got it wrong on his monument, but it is a pretty big deal. Going to give him benefit of the doubt, and call him COL for now.
1) the original bio section from creator of the memorial is below divider 2) linked him to his wife, buried here
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Wife: Carrie C. Vinceheller , Born 3/2/1855 in KY. Died 10/6/1910 @ KC, MO.
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Macomb, Sept. 16. -- Ross Chandler, of 331 North Edwards street, Macomb, received a message Wednesday morning that his brother, Major Elias Chandler, U. S. Army (retired), had died at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.Major Elias Chandler was a son of Isaac and Martha Chandler, and he was born in Industry township about 54 years ago, his fifty-fourth birthday being next month. At the age of eight years, he accompanied his parents to a farm in New Salem township, near Adair, where he grew to young manhood.When only 19 years old, he took an examination to the government military academy at West Point, New York. There were a number of other applicants for the position, but Mr. Chandler won out, and he went to West Point, where he graduated at the end of the four years' course.- The Quincy Daily Herald, Thursday, September 16, 1909; page 10. (Quincy Illinois.)......
1) the original bio section from creator of the memorial is below divider 2) linked him to his wife, buried here
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Wife: Carrie C. Vinceheller , Born 3/2/1855 in KY. Died 10/6/1910 @ KC, MO.
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Macomb, Sept. 16. -- Ross Chandler, of 331 North Edwards street, Macomb, received a message Wednesday morning that his brother, Major Elias Chandler, U. S. Army (retired), had died at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.Major Elias Chandler was a son of Isaac and Martha Chandler, and he was born in Industry township about 54 years ago, his fifty-fourth birthday being next month. At the age of eight years, he accompanied his parents to a farm in New Salem township, near Adair, where he grew to young manhood.When only 19 years old, he took an examination to the government military academy at West Point, New York. There were a number of other applicants for the position, but Mr. Chandler won out, and he went to West Point, where he graduated at the end of the four years' course.- The Quincy Daily Herald, Thursday, September 16, 1909; page 10. (Quincy Illinois.)......
12 MAY 2020, Memorial notes/at time of transfer. Added gender. Photo from the Library of Congress has him as a Colonel in the Spanish-American War, the First Arkansas Volunteer Infantry. His collar brass reads "U.S.V." for United States Volunteers. My initial guess would be the rank on his monument is incorrect, Library of Congress info is usually pretty reliable. Maybe someone forgot he had been promoted toward the end of the war, and just got it wrong on his monument, but it is a pretty big deal. Going to give him benefit of the doubt, and call him COL for now.
1) the original bio section from creator of the memorial is below divider 2) linked him to his wife, buried here
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Wife: Carrie C. Vinceheller , Born 3/2/1855 in KY. Died 10/6/1910 @ KC, MO.
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Macomb, Sept. 16. -- Ross Chandler, of 331 North Edwards street, Macomb, received a message Wednesday morning that his brother, Major Elias Chandler, U. S. Army (retired), had died at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.Major Elias Chandler was a son of Isaac and Martha Chandler, and he was born in Industry township about 54 years ago, his fifty-fourth birthday being next month. At the age of eight years, he accompanied his parents to a farm in New Salem township, near Adair, where he grew to young manhood.When only 19 years old, he took an examination to the government military academy at West Point, New York. There were a number of other applicants for the position, but Mr. Chandler won out, and he went to West Point, where he graduated at the end of the four years' course.- The Quincy Daily Herald, Thursday, September 16, 1909; page 10. (Quincy Illinois.)......
1) the original bio section from creator of the memorial is below divider 2) linked him to his wife, buried here
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Wife: Carrie C. Vinceheller , Born 3/2/1855 in KY. Died 10/6/1910 @ KC, MO.
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Macomb, Sept. 16. -- Ross Chandler, of 331 North Edwards street, Macomb, received a message Wednesday morning that his brother, Major Elias Chandler, U. S. Army (retired), had died at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.Major Elias Chandler was a son of Isaac and Martha Chandler, and he was born in Industry township about 54 years ago, his fifty-fourth birthday being next month. At the age of eight years, he accompanied his parents to a farm in New Salem township, near Adair, where he grew to young manhood.When only 19 years old, he took an examination to the government military academy at West Point, New York. There were a number of other applicants for the position, but Mr. Chandler won out, and he went to West Point, where he graduated at the end of the four years' course.- The Quincy Daily Herald, Thursday, September 16, 1909; page 10. (Quincy Illinois.)......
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