Obit. provided by contributor M. Jensen Seggerman:
Death of Capt. J. L. Fussell – Joshua Longstretch Fussell, son of Dr. Bartholomew and Lydia (Morris) Fussell was born at Kennett, Pa., June 9 1827 and died at his home in Geneva, Neb., March 1, 1915, at the advanced age of 87 years, 8 months and 20 days.
His boyhood days were spent in Kennett, a neighborhood composed entirely of Quakers.
In 1840 he went to Philadelphia where he was in the Anti-Slavery office, where was published, "The Pennsylvania Freeman." When twenty years of age, he was with the engineering corps which surveyed the line of the Pennsylvania railroad across the mountains to the western part of the state, and at the time of his death, was probably the only survivor of this engineering work, which contributed so largely to the opening of the great west. In 1849 he went to Indiana, where he did the work of the pioneer, turning his hands to whatever the needs of the community demanded: teaching school, clearing the land and farming. He erected in 1854 the first steam saw mill in that part of the country.
He was married May 10, 1855, to Jane Busby of Fall Creek, Ind., and to this union were born four sons and one daughter; the daughter and one son having proceeded him in death. At the beginning of the Civil war he volunteered in the thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry, afterwards known as the "Morton Rifles," and within eight months was promoted until he became captain of company D, which rank he held until the end of the war. He took part in the siege and capture of New Madrid, Mo., Ft. Thompson Island No. 10, and the Vicksburg campaign.
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Served as Captain with Co. D of the 34th IN Infantry during the Civil War per list of veteran burials in Nebraska.
Death of Capt. J. L. Fussell – Joshua Longstretch Fussell, son of Dr. Bartholomew and Lydia (Morris) Fussell was born at Kennett, Pa., June 9 1827 and died at his home in Geneva, Neb., March 1, 1915, at the advanced age of 87 years, 8 months and 20 days.
His boyhood days were spent in Kennett, a neighborhood composed entirely of Quakers.
In 1840 he went to Philadelphia where he was in the Anti-Slavery office, where was published, "The Pennsylvania Freeman." When twenty years of age, he was with the engineering corps which surveyed the line of the Pennsylvania railroad across the mountains to the western part of the state, and at the time of his death, was probably the only survivor of this engineering work, which contributed so largely to the opening of the great west. In 1849 he went to Indiana, where he did the work of the pioneer, turning his hands to whatever the needs of the community demanded: teaching school, clearing the land and farming. He erected in 1854 the first steam saw mill in that part of the country.
He was married May 10, 1855, to Jane Busby of Fall Creek, Ind., and to this union were born four sons and one daughter; the daughter and one son having proceeded him in death. At the beginning of the Civil war he volunteered in the thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry, afterwards known as the "Morton Rifles," and within eight months was promoted until he became captain of company D, which rank he held until the end of the war. He took part in the siege and capture of New Madrid, Mo., Ft. Thompson Island No. 10, and the Vicksburg campaign.
The Nebraska Signal
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Served as Captain with Co. D of the 34th IN Infantry during the Civil War per list of veteran burials in Nebraska.
Obit. provided by contributor M. Jensen Seggerman:
Death of Capt. J. L. Fussell – Joshua Longstretch Fussell, son of Dr. Bartholomew and Lydia (Morris) Fussell was born at Kennett, Pa., June 9 1827 and died at his home in Geneva, Neb., March 1, 1915, at the advanced age of 87 years, 8 months and 20 days.
His boyhood days were spent in Kennett, a neighborhood composed entirely of Quakers.
In 1840 he went to Philadelphia where he was in the Anti-Slavery office, where was published, "The Pennsylvania Freeman." When twenty years of age, he was with the engineering corps which surveyed the line of the Pennsylvania railroad across the mountains to the western part of the state, and at the time of his death, was probably the only survivor of this engineering work, which contributed so largely to the opening of the great west. In 1849 he went to Indiana, where he did the work of the pioneer, turning his hands to whatever the needs of the community demanded: teaching school, clearing the land and farming. He erected in 1854 the first steam saw mill in that part of the country.
He was married May 10, 1855, to Jane Busby of Fall Creek, Ind., and to this union were born four sons and one daughter; the daughter and one son having proceeded him in death. At the beginning of the Civil war he volunteered in the thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry, afterwards known as the "Morton Rifles," and within eight months was promoted until he became captain of company D, which rank he held until the end of the war. He took part in the siege and capture of New Madrid, Mo., Ft. Thompson Island No. 10, and the Vicksburg campaign.
The Nebraska Signal
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Served as Captain with Co. D of the 34th IN Infantry during the Civil War per list of veteran burials in Nebraska.
Death of Capt. J. L. Fussell – Joshua Longstretch Fussell, son of Dr. Bartholomew and Lydia (Morris) Fussell was born at Kennett, Pa., June 9 1827 and died at his home in Geneva, Neb., March 1, 1915, at the advanced age of 87 years, 8 months and 20 days.
His boyhood days were spent in Kennett, a neighborhood composed entirely of Quakers.
In 1840 he went to Philadelphia where he was in the Anti-Slavery office, where was published, "The Pennsylvania Freeman." When twenty years of age, he was with the engineering corps which surveyed the line of the Pennsylvania railroad across the mountains to the western part of the state, and at the time of his death, was probably the only survivor of this engineering work, which contributed so largely to the opening of the great west. In 1849 he went to Indiana, where he did the work of the pioneer, turning his hands to whatever the needs of the community demanded: teaching school, clearing the land and farming. He erected in 1854 the first steam saw mill in that part of the country.
He was married May 10, 1855, to Jane Busby of Fall Creek, Ind., and to this union were born four sons and one daughter; the daughter and one son having proceeded him in death. At the beginning of the Civil war he volunteered in the thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry, afterwards known as the "Morton Rifles," and within eight months was promoted until he became captain of company D, which rank he held until the end of the war. He took part in the siege and capture of New Madrid, Mo., Ft. Thompson Island No. 10, and the Vicksburg campaign.
The Nebraska Signal
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Served as Captain with Co. D of the 34th IN Infantry during the Civil War per list of veteran burials in Nebraska.
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