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I made this entry, because so many of the stones in this cemetery have been lost or destroyed. In a cemetery book printed in 1997, by Edna M. Burgin, she noted that this cemetery had been transcribed several years earlier. There is an entry: Mary Threlkeld 1830 - 24 Dec 1874 w/o Alva G. Threlked. There is a note for the stone next to her: Small marker of native stone 13 Oct 1826. The 8 and 2 in 1826 are underlined and I took that to mean maybe it couldn't be read clearly. No death date was recorded. The newspaper article below mentions that Lient. Threlkeld was 81 at the time of his death, which would put his birth year at about 1823.
Alva C. Threlkeld married Mary Oliver in Anderson County, KY on February 3, 1850.
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The Hartford Herald
Hartford, Kentucky
Wednesday, January 4, 1905
Noted Soldier Passes Away
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky Jan. 2. Lient. A. C. Trelkeld, a noted veteran of the Mexican war, and a member of the famous company known as "The Salt River Tigers," died at his home twenty miles west of this city, at the age of eighty-one years, his death being caused by the disabilities of old age. Lieut. Trelkeld was one of the most generally respected men in the neighborhood, and for many years was prominent in the business life of the country.
His most noted military service was saving the regiment commanded by the late President Jefferson Davis from annihilation in the battle of Buena Vista. But three of his comrades, Capt. John H. McBrayer and Messrs. W. F. Bond and John Tindall of this county survive him.
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I made this entry, because so many of the stones in this cemetery have been lost or destroyed. In a cemetery book printed in 1997, by Edna M. Burgin, she noted that this cemetery had been transcribed several years earlier. There is an entry: Mary Threlkeld 1830 - 24 Dec 1874 w/o Alva G. Threlked. There is a note for the stone next to her: Small marker of native stone 13 Oct 1826. The 8 and 2 in 1826 are underlined and I took that to mean maybe it couldn't be read clearly. No death date was recorded. The newspaper article below mentions that Lient. Threlkeld was 81 at the time of his death, which would put his birth year at about 1823.
Alva C. Threlkeld married Mary Oliver in Anderson County, KY on February 3, 1850.
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The Hartford Herald
Hartford, Kentucky
Wednesday, January 4, 1905
Noted Soldier Passes Away
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky Jan. 2. Lient. A. C. Trelkeld, a noted veteran of the Mexican war, and a member of the famous company known as "The Salt River Tigers," died at his home twenty miles west of this city, at the age of eighty-one years, his death being caused by the disabilities of old age. Lieut. Trelkeld was one of the most generally respected men in the neighborhood, and for many years was prominent in the business life of the country.
His most noted military service was saving the regiment commanded by the late President Jefferson Davis from annihilation in the battle of Buena Vista. But three of his comrades, Capt. John H. McBrayer and Messrs. W. F. Bond and John Tindall of this county survive him.
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I made this entry, because so many of the stones in this cemetery have been lost or destroyed. In a cemetery book printed in 1997, by Edna M. Burgin, she noted that this cemetery had been transcribed several years earlier. There is an entry: Mary Threlkeld 1830 - 24 Dec 1874 w/o Alva G. Threlked. There is a note for the stone next to her: Small marker of native stone 13 Oct 1826. The 8 and 2 in 1826 are underlined and I took that to mean maybe it couldn't be read clearly. No death date was recorded. The newspaper article below mentions that Lient. Threlkeld was 81 at the time of his death, which would put his birth year at about 1823.
Alva C. Threlkeld married Mary Oliver in Anderson County, KY on February 3, 1850.
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The Hartford Herald
Hartford, Kentucky
Wednesday, January 4, 1905
Noted Soldier Passes Away
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky Jan. 2. Lient. A. C. Trelkeld, a noted veteran of the Mexican war, and a member of the famous company known as "The Salt River Tigers," died at his home twenty miles west of this city, at the age of eighty-one years, his death being caused by the disabilities of old age. Lieut. Trelkeld was one of the most generally respected men in the neighborhood, and for many years was prominent in the business life of the country.
His most noted military service was saving the regiment commanded by the late President Jefferson Davis from annihilation in the battle of Buena Vista. But three of his comrades, Capt. John H. McBrayer and Messrs. W. F. Bond and John Tindall of this county survive him.
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I made this entry, because so many of the stones in this cemetery have been lost or destroyed. In a cemetery book printed in 1997, by Edna M. Burgin, she noted that this cemetery had been transcribed several years earlier. There is an entry: Mary Threlkeld 1830 - 24 Dec 1874 w/o Alva G. Threlked. There is a note for the stone next to her: Small marker of native stone 13 Oct 1826. The 8 and 2 in 1826 are underlined and I took that to mean maybe it couldn't be read clearly. No death date was recorded. The newspaper article below mentions that Lient. Threlkeld was 81 at the time of his death, which would put his birth year at about 1823.
Alva C. Threlkeld married Mary Oliver in Anderson County, KY on February 3, 1850.
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The Hartford Herald
Hartford, Kentucky
Wednesday, January 4, 1905
Noted Soldier Passes Away
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky Jan. 2. Lient. A. C. Trelkeld, a noted veteran of the Mexican war, and a member of the famous company known as "The Salt River Tigers," died at his home twenty miles west of this city, at the age of eighty-one years, his death being caused by the disabilities of old age. Lieut. Trelkeld was one of the most generally respected men in the neighborhood, and for many years was prominent in the business life of the country.
His most noted military service was saving the regiment commanded by the late President Jefferson Davis from annihilation in the battle of Buena Vista. But three of his comrades, Capt. John H. McBrayer and Messrs. W. F. Bond and John Tindall of this county survive him.
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