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Rev Andrew Jackson Garlock

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Rev Andrew Jackson Garlock

Birth
Preston County, West Virginia, USA
Death
12 Feb 1900 (aged 59)
Adair County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Gibbs, Adair County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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HISTORY OF ADAIR, SULLIVAN, PUTNAM & SCHUYLER COUNTIES, MISSOURI, p. 970
Chicago, IL: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888
ANDREW J. GARLOCK
Andrew J. Garlock was born in Preston County, Virginia, July 23, 1840, his father, Henry Garlock, of German parentage, born in Washington County, Maryland, and his mother, Esther Cuppett, being a native of Pennsylvania. The family moved to Missouri from Virginia in the fall of 1855 and located in Adair County, where they now reside. A.J. Garlock spent his youth on the farm until entering the 36th Iowa Infantry, Co. H, July 23, 1862, in which he served until his discharge, Aug. 24, 1865 at Davenport, Iowa. At first he was appointed a sergeant, but was afterward made an orderly and subsequently became second lieutenant. He participated in the battles at Ft. Pemberton, Mississippi, at Helena, Elkins Ford, Prairie Durham, Little Rock, and Marks Mills, Arkansas, where his regiment was nearly all captured and killed, he however, escaping. He celebrated the 4th of July, 1863, in the battle at Helena, Arkansas. Three weeks of his entire service he spent in the regimental hospital. After service he returned, and in the fall of the same year bought the land upon which he now resides, which consist of eighty acres, in his home place, all nicely improved. He has a fair residence with a good barn, and a fine orchard of about 200 apple trees and other small fruits.
He was married on July 11, 1869 to Miss Jane G. Kelley, daughter of J.G. Kelley of Adair County. Mrs. Garlock was born and reared in Holmes County, Ohio, and she and her husband are members of the United Brethren Church at the Pleasant View Church. They have three children living, Henry M.E. and Mary M.E., twins, and Jackson G., aged respectively, fourteen and twelve, and one deceased, the eldest daughter, Susan Esther, who died Jan. 3, 1884 aged twelve years.

KIRKSVILLE JOURNAL, Kirksville, Missouri, Thursday, Feb. 15, 1900
GIBBS
Mr. Jackson Garlock, one of Wilson Township's most respected citizens, passed into that sweet sleep which no awakening, at half past three Monday morning. Mr. Garlock was a most zealous citizen, an earnest Sunday School and temperance worker, and will be greatly missed all over the county.

KIRKSVILLE JOURNAL, Kirksville, Missouri, Thursday, Feb. 22, 1900
ANDREW JACKSON GARLOCK
Rev. Andrew J. Garlock was born in Preston County, West Virginia, July 23, 1840. In 1855 he moved with his parents to Adair County, Missouri, and in 1861 enlisted in the Army, served through the war, and returned in 1865. Was converted and joined the U.B. Church in 1867, in which he lived what he preached. In 1870 he was married to Jane G. Kelley, to which union four children were born- two sons and two daughters, the oldest daughter dying at the age of 12 years. The other three children are left with their mother to mourn the sad departure of a father and husband.
HISTORY OF ADAIR, SULLIVAN, PUTNAM & SCHUYLER COUNTIES, MISSOURI, p. 970
Chicago, IL: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888
ANDREW J. GARLOCK
Andrew J. Garlock was born in Preston County, Virginia, July 23, 1840, his father, Henry Garlock, of German parentage, born in Washington County, Maryland, and his mother, Esther Cuppett, being a native of Pennsylvania. The family moved to Missouri from Virginia in the fall of 1855 and located in Adair County, where they now reside. A.J. Garlock spent his youth on the farm until entering the 36th Iowa Infantry, Co. H, July 23, 1862, in which he served until his discharge, Aug. 24, 1865 at Davenport, Iowa. At first he was appointed a sergeant, but was afterward made an orderly and subsequently became second lieutenant. He participated in the battles at Ft. Pemberton, Mississippi, at Helena, Elkins Ford, Prairie Durham, Little Rock, and Marks Mills, Arkansas, where his regiment was nearly all captured and killed, he however, escaping. He celebrated the 4th of July, 1863, in the battle at Helena, Arkansas. Three weeks of his entire service he spent in the regimental hospital. After service he returned, and in the fall of the same year bought the land upon which he now resides, which consist of eighty acres, in his home place, all nicely improved. He has a fair residence with a good barn, and a fine orchard of about 200 apple trees and other small fruits.
He was married on July 11, 1869 to Miss Jane G. Kelley, daughter of J.G. Kelley of Adair County. Mrs. Garlock was born and reared in Holmes County, Ohio, and she and her husband are members of the United Brethren Church at the Pleasant View Church. They have three children living, Henry M.E. and Mary M.E., twins, and Jackson G., aged respectively, fourteen and twelve, and one deceased, the eldest daughter, Susan Esther, who died Jan. 3, 1884 aged twelve years.

KIRKSVILLE JOURNAL, Kirksville, Missouri, Thursday, Feb. 15, 1900
GIBBS
Mr. Jackson Garlock, one of Wilson Township's most respected citizens, passed into that sweet sleep which no awakening, at half past three Monday morning. Mr. Garlock was a most zealous citizen, an earnest Sunday School and temperance worker, and will be greatly missed all over the county.

KIRKSVILLE JOURNAL, Kirksville, Missouri, Thursday, Feb. 22, 1900
ANDREW JACKSON GARLOCK
Rev. Andrew J. Garlock was born in Preston County, West Virginia, July 23, 1840. In 1855 he moved with his parents to Adair County, Missouri, and in 1861 enlisted in the Army, served through the war, and returned in 1865. Was converted and joined the U.B. Church in 1867, in which he lived what he preached. In 1870 he was married to Jane G. Kelley, to which union four children were born- two sons and two daughters, the oldest daughter dying at the age of 12 years. The other three children are left with their mother to mourn the sad departure of a father and husband.


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