PVT - Co I, 91st OH Inf. - Enlisted; at the age of 22 on Aug. 22, 1862. Mustered out; June 24, 1865.
VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR∼DEATH COMES SUDDENLY TO AGED MINISTER
Rev. Horace Sidney ALBERT, who with his wife arrived at Harris on Saturday, October 16, to spend the winter with their children, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas HARRISON, and the latter's son, O. G. HARRISON, Moffat road agent, died suddenly Friday shortly after noon. He had just risen from the dinner table and started for the door when he fell back into the arms of his son and expired in a few minutes.
The funeral was held in the Methodist church at Steamboat Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. McDowell officiating, and interment was had in the Steamboat cemetery.
Horace Sidney ALBERT was born in Kentucky on April 29, 1840, and moved with his parents to Adams county, Ohio, in 1848. In the following year he joined the Methodist Episcopal church and had lived the life of a true Christian since that time. On July 28, 1860, he was united in marriage to Margaret ANDERSON of ADAMS county, Ohio, and to them four children were born, James William, Margaret Elizabeth, Diana and Hattie Viola. He is survived by his wife and two children, James W. ALBERT of Albia, Iowa, and Mrs. Thomas HARRISON of Mount Harris, and a brother who lives at Hillsboro, Ohio.
Mr. ALBERT enlisted August 11, 1862, in Co. I, 91st Ohio infantry and served his country faithfully until the close of the war. He moved to Iowa in January, 1875, and two years later was licensed as an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1879 he was licensed as a preacher of the church. In 1880 he moved to Schuyler county and nine years later to Albia, Monroe country, Iowa. In 1900 he was appointed pastor at Foster, Iowa, and held charges at Hayesville, Moravia and Albia in the same state. On July 27, 1912, he went to the Soldiers' home at Marshalltown, Iowa, and on April 10, 1914, he came to Colorado to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. Thomas HARRISON, at Boulder. He was a member of Nathaniel Lyon post No. 5 at Boulder, Colorado, and a charter member of Orman post No. 337, G. A. R., at Albia, Iowa.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Wednesday, October 27, 1915.)
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VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR∼DEATH COMES SUDDENLY TO AGED MINISTER
Rev. Horace Sidney ALBERT, who with his wife arrived at Harris on Saturday, October 16, to spend the winter with their children, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas HARRISON, and the latter's son, O. G. HARRISON, Moffat road agent, died suddenly Friday shortly after noon. He had just risen from the dinner table and started for the door when he fell back into the arms of his son and expired in a few minutes.
The funeral was held in the Methodist church at Steamboat Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. McDowell officiating, and interment was had in the Steamboat cemetery.
Horace Sidney ALBERT was born in Kentucky on April 29, 1840, and moved with his parents to Adams county, Ohio, in 1848. In the following year he joined the Methodist Episcopal church and had lived the life of a true Christian since that time. On July 28, 1860, he was united in marriage to Margaret ANDERSON of ADAMS county, Ohio, and to them four children were born, James William, Margaret Elizabeth, Diana and Hattie Viola. He is survived by his wife and two children, James W. ALBERT of Albia, Iowa, and Mrs. Thomas HARRISON of Mount Harris, and a brother who lives at Hillsboro, Ohio.
Mr. ALBERT enlisted August 11, 1862, in Co. I, 91st Ohio infantry and served his country faithfully until the close of the war. He moved to Iowa in January, 1875, and two years later was licensed as an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1879 he was licensed as a preacher of the church. In 1880 he moved to Schuyler county and nine years later to Albia, Monroe country, Iowa. In 1900 he was appointed pastor at Foster, Iowa, and held charges at Hayesville, Moravia and Albia in the same state. On July 27, 1912, he went to the Soldiers' home at Marshalltown, Iowa, and on April 10, 1914, he came to Colorado to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. Thomas HARRISON, at Boulder. He was a member of Nathaniel Lyon post No. 5 at Boulder, Colorado, and a charter member of Orman post No. 337, G. A. R., at Albia, Iowa.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Wednesday, October 27, 1915.)
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PVT - Co I, 91st OH Inf. - Enlisted; at the age of 22 on Aug. 22, 1862. Mustered out; June 24, 1865.
VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR∼DEATH COMES SUDDENLY TO AGED MINISTER
Rev. Horace Sidney ALBERT, who with his wife arrived at Harris on Saturday, October 16, to spend the winter with their children, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas HARRISON, and the latter's son, O. G. HARRISON, Moffat road agent, died suddenly Friday shortly after noon. He had just risen from the dinner table and started for the door when he fell back into the arms of his son and expired in a few minutes.
The funeral was held in the Methodist church at Steamboat Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. McDowell officiating, and interment was had in the Steamboat cemetery.
Horace Sidney ALBERT was born in Kentucky on April 29, 1840, and moved with his parents to Adams county, Ohio, in 1848. In the following year he joined the Methodist Episcopal church and had lived the life of a true Christian since that time. On July 28, 1860, he was united in marriage to Margaret ANDERSON of ADAMS county, Ohio, and to them four children were born, James William, Margaret Elizabeth, Diana and Hattie Viola. He is survived by his wife and two children, James W. ALBERT of Albia, Iowa, and Mrs. Thomas HARRISON of Mount Harris, and a brother who lives at Hillsboro, Ohio.
Mr. ALBERT enlisted August 11, 1862, in Co. I, 91st Ohio infantry and served his country faithfully until the close of the war. He moved to Iowa in January, 1875, and two years later was licensed as an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1879 he was licensed as a preacher of the church. In 1880 he moved to Schuyler county and nine years later to Albia, Monroe country, Iowa. In 1900 he was appointed pastor at Foster, Iowa, and held charges at Hayesville, Moravia and Albia in the same state. On July 27, 1912, he went to the Soldiers' home at Marshalltown, Iowa, and on April 10, 1914, he came to Colorado to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. Thomas HARRISON, at Boulder. He was a member of Nathaniel Lyon post No. 5 at Boulder, Colorado, and a charter member of Orman post No. 337, G. A. R., at Albia, Iowa.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Wednesday, October 27, 1915.)
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VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR∼DEATH COMES SUDDENLY TO AGED MINISTER
Rev. Horace Sidney ALBERT, who with his wife arrived at Harris on Saturday, October 16, to spend the winter with their children, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas HARRISON, and the latter's son, O. G. HARRISON, Moffat road agent, died suddenly Friday shortly after noon. He had just risen from the dinner table and started for the door when he fell back into the arms of his son and expired in a few minutes.
The funeral was held in the Methodist church at Steamboat Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. McDowell officiating, and interment was had in the Steamboat cemetery.
Horace Sidney ALBERT was born in Kentucky on April 29, 1840, and moved with his parents to Adams county, Ohio, in 1848. In the following year he joined the Methodist Episcopal church and had lived the life of a true Christian since that time. On July 28, 1860, he was united in marriage to Margaret ANDERSON of ADAMS county, Ohio, and to them four children were born, James William, Margaret Elizabeth, Diana and Hattie Viola. He is survived by his wife and two children, James W. ALBERT of Albia, Iowa, and Mrs. Thomas HARRISON of Mount Harris, and a brother who lives at Hillsboro, Ohio.
Mr. ALBERT enlisted August 11, 1862, in Co. I, 91st Ohio infantry and served his country faithfully until the close of the war. He moved to Iowa in January, 1875, and two years later was licensed as an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1879 he was licensed as a preacher of the church. In 1880 he moved to Schuyler county and nine years later to Albia, Monroe country, Iowa. In 1900 he was appointed pastor at Foster, Iowa, and held charges at Hayesville, Moravia and Albia in the same state. On July 27, 1912, he went to the Soldiers' home at Marshalltown, Iowa, and on April 10, 1914, he came to Colorado to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. Thomas HARRISON, at Boulder. He was a member of Nathaniel Lyon post No. 5 at Boulder, Colorado, and a charter member of Orman post No. 337, G. A. R., at Albia, Iowa.
(Published in The Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, CO), Wednesday, October 27, 1915.)
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