Semi-Weekly Interior Journal
Stanford, Kentucky
Tuesday, May 22, 1900
Abraham - Five funerals in one household in 17 months is the unusual record in the Abraham family. First Mr. George C. Abraham died at the age of 80, then Miss Marietta, daughter of W. F. Abraham, 22, Miss Sidney Abraham, aged 87, Miss Kittie, 77, and Saturday Mr. W. F. Abraham breathed his last of Bright's disease, aged 72, leaving but one of a formerly prominent family, Mrs. Martha Arnold, aged 75. Elder J. G. Livingston preached the funeral sermons of them all, that of the last to die Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, when the body of W. F. Abraham, was laid with the rest in the family burying ground on the premises that all were born and raised. The remarks of the preacher, whose friend he was, were both touching and appropriate and then five of his brother Confederates, Judge M. C. Saufley, J. H. Miller, M. S. Peyton, R. G. Collier and G. W. DeBord, consigned the remains to the tomb. Deceased was a member of Capt. T. H. Shanks' company, Grigsby's regiment, and served gallantly through the war for the cause that was lost. After the war he dealt largely in stock and was quite a prominent man in affairs generally. Some 23 years ago he married Mrs. Harriett Buchanan, who bore him one child, Marietta, whose sad death nearly broke his heart and from the effects of which he never recovered. When he was taken ill last winter, he sent for Elder Livingston to whom he made a confession and by whom he was baptized in a box of water made for that purpose. Like the rest of the family, all of whom, it will be seen lived to old age, he hung on to life with great tenacity and for months had been at the point of death, which finally came as a final relief to his worn out body.
Semi-Weekly Interior Journal
Stanford, Kentucky
Tuesday, December 10 1901
Abraham Farm Sold - George DeBord bought yesterday at commissioners sale the Abraham homestead of 132 acres at $11 20. The farm is located three miles from Crab Orchard and has been occupied by the Abraham family since 1780. Col. J. P. Chandler cried the sale.
Military Service:
William and his brother George served as a Private in Thomas Shanks’ Company, Grigsby’s Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry. This company later became Company B of the 6th Kentucky Cavalry upon consolidation of units in late winter 1863.
William was taken prisoner at Cheshire, Ohio on July 20, 1863, during John Hunt Morgan’s Great Raid through Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. William was transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio, and then to Camp Douglas prisoner-of-war camp in Chicago, Illinois, where he remained imprisoned from August of 1863 until March 2, 1865. On that date, he was transferred to Point Lookout, in Maryland, for exchange. On March 11, 1865, he was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia. He took the oath of allegiance on April 25, 1865, at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
William and his brother George returned home without a scratch, except small pox marks contracted at Camp Douglas.
Farmer
William farmed on the family farm, located west of Crab Orchard. In the 1870s, William and his brother George bred and sold thoroughbred Polish China hogs. George also raised cattle.
Stanford, Kentucky
Tuesday, May 22, 1900
Abraham - Five funerals in one household in 17 months is the unusual record in the Abraham family. First Mr. George C. Abraham died at the age of 80, then Miss Marietta, daughter of W. F. Abraham, 22, Miss Sidney Abraham, aged 87, Miss Kittie, 77, and Saturday Mr. W. F. Abraham breathed his last of Bright's disease, aged 72, leaving but one of a formerly prominent family, Mrs. Martha Arnold, aged 75. Elder J. G. Livingston preached the funeral sermons of them all, that of the last to die Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, when the body of W. F. Abraham, was laid with the rest in the family burying ground on the premises that all were born and raised. The remarks of the preacher, whose friend he was, were both touching and appropriate and then five of his brother Confederates, Judge M. C. Saufley, J. H. Miller, M. S. Peyton, R. G. Collier and G. W. DeBord, consigned the remains to the tomb. Deceased was a member of Capt. T. H. Shanks' company, Grigsby's regiment, and served gallantly through the war for the cause that was lost. After the war he dealt largely in stock and was quite a prominent man in affairs generally. Some 23 years ago he married Mrs. Harriett Buchanan, who bore him one child, Marietta, whose sad death nearly broke his heart and from the effects of which he never recovered. When he was taken ill last winter, he sent for Elder Livingston to whom he made a confession and by whom he was baptized in a box of water made for that purpose. Like the rest of the family, all of whom, it will be seen lived to old age, he hung on to life with great tenacity and for months had been at the point of death, which finally came as a final relief to his worn out body.
Semi-Weekly Interior Journal
Stanford, Kentucky
Tuesday, December 10 1901
Abraham Farm Sold - George DeBord bought yesterday at commissioners sale the Abraham homestead of 132 acres at $11 20. The farm is located three miles from Crab Orchard and has been occupied by the Abraham family since 1780. Col. J. P. Chandler cried the sale.
Military Service:
William and his brother George served as a Private in Thomas Shanks’ Company, Grigsby’s Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry. This company later became Company B of the 6th Kentucky Cavalry upon consolidation of units in late winter 1863.
William was taken prisoner at Cheshire, Ohio on July 20, 1863, during John Hunt Morgan’s Great Raid through Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. William was transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio, and then to Camp Douglas prisoner-of-war camp in Chicago, Illinois, where he remained imprisoned from August of 1863 until March 2, 1865. On that date, he was transferred to Point Lookout, in Maryland, for exchange. On March 11, 1865, he was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia. He took the oath of allegiance on April 25, 1865, at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
William and his brother George returned home without a scratch, except small pox marks contracted at Camp Douglas.
Farmer
William farmed on the family farm, located west of Crab Orchard. In the 1870s, William and his brother George bred and sold thoroughbred Polish China hogs. George also raised cattle.
Semi-Weekly Interior Journal
Stanford, Kentucky
Tuesday, May 22, 1900
Abraham - Five funerals in one household in 17 months is the unusual record in the Abraham family. First Mr. George C. Abraham died at the age of 80, then Miss Marietta, daughter of W. F. Abraham, 22, Miss Sidney Abraham, aged 87, Miss Kittie, 77, and Saturday Mr. W. F. Abraham breathed his last of Bright's disease, aged 72, leaving but one of a formerly prominent family, Mrs. Martha Arnold, aged 75. Elder J. G. Livingston preached the funeral sermons of them all, that of the last to die Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, when the body of W. F. Abraham, was laid with the rest in the family burying ground on the premises that all were born and raised. The remarks of the preacher, whose friend he was, were both touching and appropriate and then five of his brother Confederates, Judge M. C. Saufley, J. H. Miller, M. S. Peyton, R. G. Collier and G. W. DeBord, consigned the remains to the tomb. Deceased was a member of Capt. T. H. Shanks' company, Grigsby's regiment, and served gallantly through the war for the cause that was lost. After the war he dealt largely in stock and was quite a prominent man in affairs generally. Some 23 years ago he married Mrs. Harriett Buchanan, who bore him one child, Marietta, whose sad death nearly broke his heart and from the effects of which he never recovered. When he was taken ill last winter, he sent for Elder Livingston to whom he made a confession and by whom he was baptized in a box of water made for that purpose. Like the rest of the family, all of whom, it will be seen lived to old age, he hung on to life with great tenacity and for months had been at the point of death, which finally came as a final relief to his worn out body.
Semi-Weekly Interior Journal
Stanford, Kentucky
Tuesday, December 10 1901
Abraham Farm Sold - George DeBord bought yesterday at commissioners sale the Abraham homestead of 132 acres at $11 20. The farm is located three miles from Crab Orchard and has been occupied by the Abraham family since 1780. Col. J. P. Chandler cried the sale.
Military Service:
William and his brother George served as a Private in Thomas Shanks’ Company, Grigsby’s Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry. This company later became Company B of the 6th Kentucky Cavalry upon consolidation of units in late winter 1863.
William was taken prisoner at Cheshire, Ohio on July 20, 1863, during John Hunt Morgan’s Great Raid through Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. William was transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio, and then to Camp Douglas prisoner-of-war camp in Chicago, Illinois, where he remained imprisoned from August of 1863 until March 2, 1865. On that date, he was transferred to Point Lookout, in Maryland, for exchange. On March 11, 1865, he was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia. He took the oath of allegiance on April 25, 1865, at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
William and his brother George returned home without a scratch, except small pox marks contracted at Camp Douglas.
Farmer
William farmed on the family farm, located west of Crab Orchard. In the 1870s, William and his brother George bred and sold thoroughbred Polish China hogs. George also raised cattle.
Stanford, Kentucky
Tuesday, May 22, 1900
Abraham - Five funerals in one household in 17 months is the unusual record in the Abraham family. First Mr. George C. Abraham died at the age of 80, then Miss Marietta, daughter of W. F. Abraham, 22, Miss Sidney Abraham, aged 87, Miss Kittie, 77, and Saturday Mr. W. F. Abraham breathed his last of Bright's disease, aged 72, leaving but one of a formerly prominent family, Mrs. Martha Arnold, aged 75. Elder J. G. Livingston preached the funeral sermons of them all, that of the last to die Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, when the body of W. F. Abraham, was laid with the rest in the family burying ground on the premises that all were born and raised. The remarks of the preacher, whose friend he was, were both touching and appropriate and then five of his brother Confederates, Judge M. C. Saufley, J. H. Miller, M. S. Peyton, R. G. Collier and G. W. DeBord, consigned the remains to the tomb. Deceased was a member of Capt. T. H. Shanks' company, Grigsby's regiment, and served gallantly through the war for the cause that was lost. After the war he dealt largely in stock and was quite a prominent man in affairs generally. Some 23 years ago he married Mrs. Harriett Buchanan, who bore him one child, Marietta, whose sad death nearly broke his heart and from the effects of which he never recovered. When he was taken ill last winter, he sent for Elder Livingston to whom he made a confession and by whom he was baptized in a box of water made for that purpose. Like the rest of the family, all of whom, it will be seen lived to old age, he hung on to life with great tenacity and for months had been at the point of death, which finally came as a final relief to his worn out body.
Semi-Weekly Interior Journal
Stanford, Kentucky
Tuesday, December 10 1901
Abraham Farm Sold - George DeBord bought yesterday at commissioners sale the Abraham homestead of 132 acres at $11 20. The farm is located three miles from Crab Orchard and has been occupied by the Abraham family since 1780. Col. J. P. Chandler cried the sale.
Military Service:
William and his brother George served as a Private in Thomas Shanks’ Company, Grigsby’s Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry. This company later became Company B of the 6th Kentucky Cavalry upon consolidation of units in late winter 1863.
William was taken prisoner at Cheshire, Ohio on July 20, 1863, during John Hunt Morgan’s Great Raid through Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. William was transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio, and then to Camp Douglas prisoner-of-war camp in Chicago, Illinois, where he remained imprisoned from August of 1863 until March 2, 1865. On that date, he was transferred to Point Lookout, in Maryland, for exchange. On March 11, 1865, he was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia. He took the oath of allegiance on April 25, 1865, at Fort Monroe, Virginia.
William and his brother George returned home without a scratch, except small pox marks contracted at Camp Douglas.
Farmer
William farmed on the family farm, located west of Crab Orchard. In the 1870s, William and his brother George bred and sold thoroughbred Polish China hogs. George also raised cattle.
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