This grave is now a CENOTAPH. In 1940 his remains were transferred to the Stebbins' family plot in the Laurel Hill Cemetery, Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Civil War: Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry
Asa Harvey Stebbins was the son of Asa Stebbins, jr. and Maria Stowell. During the Civil War he volunteered and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, mustering into Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry, on May 26, 1862. Lieutenant Stebbins was wounded in action at Rawle's Mills, North Carolina, November 2, 1862. After recovering from his wounds Asa was mustered out June 18, 1863. After the war he went to Boston, but business interests sent him to Omaha, Nebraska. There he met and then married Alice Una Skinner, 21, at Trinity Episcopal Church on October 30, 1867. The couple returned to Massachusetts where their two children were born: Horace Chase Stebbins at Boston on July 2, 1873, and Alice Una Stebbins at Deerfield on February 3, 1875. Asa's employer sent him to Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in 1878 to manage investments in silver mines. Sadly, shortly after their arrival in Tombstone Alice died on July 13. Asa took his wife's remains and both of his children back to Deerfield, where Alice was buried in the family plot in Deerfield's Laurel Hill Cemetery on July 26. He left Alice and Horace in the care of his widowed sister-in-law, Lydia A. Stebbins. Asa then returned to Tombstone to continue managing investors' accounts in the True Blue Mine. Asa met Rev. Endicott Peabody, who was organizing a congregation of the Episcopal church in Tombstone. Rev. Peabody oversaw the construction of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, completed in 1882, and was its first pastor. When Rev. Peabody prepared to leave Tombstone to return to Massachusetts to found the Groton School for Boys in 1884, Asa asked Rev. Peabody to assume the guardianship of Horace so Horace could attend the school. Rev. Peabody served as the school's headmaster from 1884 to 1940. Asa became a member of Tombstone's King Solomon Masonic Lodge after its establishment in 1882, and he was a charter member of Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1886. An active Republican, he made two unsuccessful bids for Congress in 1886 and 1888. Horace came to Tombstone in the summer of 1888 to celebrate his 15th birthday on July 3 with his father. While Horace was participating in a game of baseball at Tombstone's 4th of July celebration, someone stole his pocketbook with $18 inside. The incident was duly reported in the July 7 edition of the Tombstone Epitaph. Asa died unexpectedly the following year and he was buried in Tombstone's Grand Army plot with full military honors. A new G.A.R. post established in nearby Bisbee later that same year adopted his name. His daughter Alice died the following year of pneumonia on February 22, 1890, just a fews days after her 15th birthday. Alice was buried next to her mother in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Many years later, in 1940, Horace, perhaps with the assistance of Rev. Peabody, had his remains disinterred and returned to Deerfield to rest beside his wife and daughter. The headstone from his original grave still marks the spot where he was first buried.
Civil War: Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry
Asa Harvey Stebbins was the son of Asa Stebbins, jr. and Maria Stowell. During the Civil War he volunteered and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, mustering into Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry, on May 26, 1862. Lieutenant Stebbins was wounded in action at Rawle's Mills, North Carolina, November 2, 1862. After recovering from his wounds Asa was mustered out June 18, 1863. After the war he went to Boston, but business interests sent him to Omaha, Nebraska. There he met and then married Alice Una Skinner, 21, at Trinity Episcopal Church on October 30, 1867. The couple returned to Massachusetts where their two children were born: Horace Chase Stebbins at Boston on July 2, 1873, and Alice Una Stebbins at Deerfield on February 3, 1875. Asa's employer sent him to Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in 1878 to manage investments in silver mines. Sadly, shortly after their arrival in Tombstone Alice died on July 13. Asa took his wife's remains and both of his children back to Deerfield, where Alice was buried in the family plot in Deerfield's Laurel Hill Cemetery on July 26. He left Alice and Horace in the care of his widowed sister-in-law, Lydia A. Stebbins. Asa then returned to Tombstone to continue managing investors' accounts in the True Blue Mine. Asa met Rev. Endicott Peabody, who was organizing a congregation of the Episcopal church in Tombstone. Rev. Peabody oversaw the construction of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, completed in 1882, and was its first pastor. When Rev. Peabody prepared to leave Tombstone to return to Massachusetts to found the Groton School for Boys in 1884, Asa asked Rev. Peabody to assume the guardianship of Horace so Horace could attend the school. Rev. Peabody served as the school's headmaster from 1884 to 1940. Asa became a member of Tombstone's King Solomon Masonic Lodge after its establishment in 1882, and he was a charter member of Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1886. An active Republican, he made two unsuccessful bids for Congress in 1886 and 1888. Horace came to Tombstone in the summer of 1888 to celebrate his 15th birthday on July 3 with his father. While Horace was participating in a game of baseball at Tombstone's 4th of July celebration, someone stole his pocketbook with $18 inside. The incident was duly reported in the July 7 edition of the Tombstone Epitaph. Asa died unexpectedly the following year and he was buried in Tombstone's Grand Army plot with full military honors. A new G.A.R. post established in nearby Bisbee later that same year adopted his name. His daughter Alice died the following year of pneumonia on February 22, 1890, just a fews days after her 15th birthday. Alice was buried next to her mother in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Many years later, in 1940, Horace, perhaps with the assistance of Rev. Peabody, had his remains disinterred and returned to Deerfield to rest beside his wife and daughter. The headstone from his original grave still marks the spot where he was first buried.
This grave is now a CENOTAPH. In 1940 his remains were transferred to the Stebbins' family plot in the Laurel Hill Cemetery, Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Civil War: Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry
Asa Harvey Stebbins was the son of Asa Stebbins, jr. and Maria Stowell. During the Civil War he volunteered and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, mustering into Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry, on May 26, 1862. Lieutenant Stebbins was wounded in action at Rawle's Mills, North Carolina, November 2, 1862. After recovering from his wounds Asa was mustered out June 18, 1863. After the war he went to Boston, but business interests sent him to Omaha, Nebraska. There he met and then married Alice Una Skinner, 21, at Trinity Episcopal Church on October 30, 1867. The couple returned to Massachusetts where their two children were born: Horace Chase Stebbins at Boston on July 2, 1873, and Alice Una Stebbins at Deerfield on February 3, 1875. Asa's employer sent him to Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in 1878 to manage investments in silver mines. Sadly, shortly after their arrival in Tombstone Alice died on July 13. Asa took his wife's remains and both of his children back to Deerfield, where Alice was buried in the family plot in Deerfield's Laurel Hill Cemetery on July 26. He left Alice and Horace in the care of his widowed sister-in-law, Lydia A. Stebbins. Asa then returned to Tombstone to continue managing investors' accounts in the True Blue Mine. Asa met Rev. Endicott Peabody, who was organizing a congregation of the Episcopal church in Tombstone. Rev. Peabody oversaw the construction of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, completed in 1882, and was its first pastor. When Rev. Peabody prepared to leave Tombstone to return to Massachusetts to found the Groton School for Boys in 1884, Asa asked Rev. Peabody to assume the guardianship of Horace so Horace could attend the school. Rev. Peabody served as the school's headmaster from 1884 to 1940. Asa became a member of Tombstone's King Solomon Masonic Lodge after its establishment in 1882, and he was a charter member of Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1886. An active Republican, he made two unsuccessful bids for Congress in 1886 and 1888. Horace came to Tombstone in the summer of 1888 to celebrate his 15th birthday on July 3 with his father. While Horace was participating in a game of baseball at Tombstone's 4th of July celebration, someone stole his pocketbook with $18 inside. The incident was duly reported in the July 7 edition of the Tombstone Epitaph. Asa died unexpectedly the following year and he was buried in Tombstone's Grand Army plot with full military honors. A new G.A.R. post established in nearby Bisbee later that same year adopted his name. His daughter Alice died the following year of pneumonia on February 22, 1890, just a fews days after her 15th birthday. Alice was buried next to her mother in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Many years later, in 1940, Horace, perhaps with the assistance of Rev. Peabody, had his remains disinterred and returned to Deerfield to rest beside his wife and daughter. The headstone from his original grave still marks the spot where he was first buried.
Civil War: Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry
Asa Harvey Stebbins was the son of Asa Stebbins, jr. and Maria Stowell. During the Civil War he volunteered and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, mustering into Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry, on May 26, 1862. Lieutenant Stebbins was wounded in action at Rawle's Mills, North Carolina, November 2, 1862. After recovering from his wounds Asa was mustered out June 18, 1863. After the war he went to Boston, but business interests sent him to Omaha, Nebraska. There he met and then married Alice Una Skinner, 21, at Trinity Episcopal Church on October 30, 1867. The couple returned to Massachusetts where their two children were born: Horace Chase Stebbins at Boston on July 2, 1873, and Alice Una Stebbins at Deerfield on February 3, 1875. Asa's employer sent him to Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in 1878 to manage investments in silver mines. Sadly, shortly after their arrival in Tombstone Alice died on July 13. Asa took his wife's remains and both of his children back to Deerfield, where Alice was buried in the family plot in Deerfield's Laurel Hill Cemetery on July 26. He left Alice and Horace in the care of his widowed sister-in-law, Lydia A. Stebbins. Asa then returned to Tombstone to continue managing investors' accounts in the True Blue Mine. Asa met Rev. Endicott Peabody, who was organizing a congregation of the Episcopal church in Tombstone. Rev. Peabody oversaw the construction of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, completed in 1882, and was its first pastor. When Rev. Peabody prepared to leave Tombstone to return to Massachusetts to found the Groton School for Boys in 1884, Asa asked Rev. Peabody to assume the guardianship of Horace so Horace could attend the school. Rev. Peabody served as the school's headmaster from 1884 to 1940. Asa became a member of Tombstone's King Solomon Masonic Lodge after its establishment in 1882, and he was a charter member of Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1886. An active Republican, he made two unsuccessful bids for Congress in 1886 and 1888. Horace came to Tombstone in the summer of 1888 to celebrate his 15th birthday on July 3 with his father. While Horace was participating in a game of baseball at Tombstone's 4th of July celebration, someone stole his pocketbook with $18 inside. The incident was duly reported in the July 7 edition of the Tombstone Epitaph. Asa died unexpectedly the following year and he was buried in Tombstone's Grand Army plot with full military honors. A new G.A.R. post established in nearby Bisbee later that same year adopted his name. His daughter Alice died the following year of pneumonia on February 22, 1890, just a fews days after her 15th birthday. Alice was buried next to her mother in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Many years later, in 1940, Horace, perhaps with the assistance of Rev. Peabody, had his remains disinterred and returned to Deerfield to rest beside his wife and daughter. The headstone from his original grave still marks the spot where he was first buried.
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