died in his home on Busby Road near Howard, Elk KS
Sgt John Abbott, Company B, 79th Illinois Volunteers. Served from 1 June 1862 to 29 June 1865. Captured 21 Dec 1862, Battle of Stones River, Mursfreeboro, Tennessee. Held prisoner in Richmond, Virginia, and paroled 3 February 1863. Returned to Company B, 15 June 1863. Transferred to Veterans Reserve Corps (Invalid Corps) 28 August 1863. He was hospitalized on several occasions for chronic rheumatism and was discharged 29 June 1865. He was born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 6 June 1825, and moved to Illinois during the 1840s. After the Civil War, in 1870, with his two sons and several other young men, he moved from Douglas County, Illinois, and homesteaded land about five miles East of Howard, Kansas, on Busby Road. He returned to Illinois and on 30 October 1872, he married Ruthinda Webb, who returned to Kansas with him. Together they had six children John, Elizabeth, Esta and Etta (twins), Walter, and Lenora. He died at the home of his daughter Esta Kingsley in Howard, Kansas, 21 September 1917. His funeral service was held Sunday, 23 September 1917, at the Howard Methodist Episcopal Church.
He is buried in Space #4 of the Abbott plot, Grace Lawn Cemetery, Howard, Kansas. There are no headstones for him or his wife Ruth (Webb) Abbott (25 Aug 1845-21 November 1924), who is buried in Space #3. Several children are also buried in the Abbott plot.
Sgt John Abbott, Company B, 79th Illinois Volunteers. Served from 1 June 1862 to 29 June 1865. Captured 21 Dec 1862, Battle of Stones River, Mursfreeboro, Tennessee. Held prisoner in Richmond, Virginia, and paroled 3 February 1863. Returned to Company B, 15 June 1863. Transferred to Veterans Reserve Corps (Invalid Corps) 28 August 1863. He was hospitalized on several occasions for chronic rheumatism and was discharged 29 June 1865. He was born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 6 June 1825, and moved to Illinois during the 1840s. After the Civil War, in 1870, with his two sons and several other young men, he moved from Douglas County, Illinois, and homesteaded land about five miles East of Howard, Kansas, on Busby Road. He returned to Illinois and on 30 October 1872, he married Ruthinda Webb, who returned to Kansas with him. Together they had six children John, Elizabeth, Esta and Etta (twins), Walter, and Lenora. He died at the home of his daughter Esta Kingsley in Howard, Kansas, 21 September 1917. His funeral service was held Sunday, 23 September 1917, at the Howard Methodist Episcopal Church.
He is buried in Space #4 of the Abbott plot, Grace Lawn Cemetery, Howard, Kansas. There are no headstones for him or his wife Ruth (Webb) Abbott (25 Aug 1845-21 November 1924), who is buried in Space #3. Several children are also buried in the Abbott plot.
died in his home on Busby Road near Howard, Elk KS
Sgt John Abbott, Company B, 79th Illinois Volunteers. Served from 1 June 1862 to 29 June 1865. Captured 21 Dec 1862, Battle of Stones River, Mursfreeboro, Tennessee. Held prisoner in Richmond, Virginia, and paroled 3 February 1863. Returned to Company B, 15 June 1863. Transferred to Veterans Reserve Corps (Invalid Corps) 28 August 1863. He was hospitalized on several occasions for chronic rheumatism and was discharged 29 June 1865. He was born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 6 June 1825, and moved to Illinois during the 1840s. After the Civil War, in 1870, with his two sons and several other young men, he moved from Douglas County, Illinois, and homesteaded land about five miles East of Howard, Kansas, on Busby Road. He returned to Illinois and on 30 October 1872, he married Ruthinda Webb, who returned to Kansas with him. Together they had six children John, Elizabeth, Esta and Etta (twins), Walter, and Lenora. He died at the home of his daughter Esta Kingsley in Howard, Kansas, 21 September 1917. His funeral service was held Sunday, 23 September 1917, at the Howard Methodist Episcopal Church.
He is buried in Space #4 of the Abbott plot, Grace Lawn Cemetery, Howard, Kansas. There are no headstones for him or his wife Ruth (Webb) Abbott (25 Aug 1845-21 November 1924), who is buried in Space #3. Several children are also buried in the Abbott plot.
Sgt John Abbott, Company B, 79th Illinois Volunteers. Served from 1 June 1862 to 29 June 1865. Captured 21 Dec 1862, Battle of Stones River, Mursfreeboro, Tennessee. Held prisoner in Richmond, Virginia, and paroled 3 February 1863. Returned to Company B, 15 June 1863. Transferred to Veterans Reserve Corps (Invalid Corps) 28 August 1863. He was hospitalized on several occasions for chronic rheumatism and was discharged 29 June 1865. He was born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 6 June 1825, and moved to Illinois during the 1840s. After the Civil War, in 1870, with his two sons and several other young men, he moved from Douglas County, Illinois, and homesteaded land about five miles East of Howard, Kansas, on Busby Road. He returned to Illinois and on 30 October 1872, he married Ruthinda Webb, who returned to Kansas with him. Together they had six children John, Elizabeth, Esta and Etta (twins), Walter, and Lenora. He died at the home of his daughter Esta Kingsley in Howard, Kansas, 21 September 1917. His funeral service was held Sunday, 23 September 1917, at the Howard Methodist Episcopal Church.
He is buried in Space #4 of the Abbott plot, Grace Lawn Cemetery, Howard, Kansas. There are no headstones for him or his wife Ruth (Webb) Abbott (25 Aug 1845-21 November 1924), who is buried in Space #3. Several children are also buried in the Abbott plot.
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