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Pvt John Wesley Shull

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Pvt John Wesley Shull Veteran

Birth
White County, Indiana, USA
Death
20 Jul 1930 (aged 84)
Monticello, White County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Burnettsville (White County), Cass County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Enlisted as a Private on 12 January 1864.
Enlisted in Company F, 128th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 12 Jan 1864.
Mustered Out Company F, 128th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 10 Apr 1866.


J. W. Shull Funeral To
Be Held Wednesday
Moniicello, July 21.—John
Wesley Shull, 84, in Oct. 1929, a
well known and hlgnly respected
Citizen and Civil war veteran of
Monticello. passed away at his
home on North Illinois street
Sunday evening at 8:20 p. m.
The body was taken to the Prevo
and Miller funeral home, where it
will remain until this evening.
Mr. Shull was a minister for
the Church of God for several
years. He was one of three Civil
war veterans in Monticello. One
brother Zepthta of Burnettsville
who is the last of nine children,
survives.
Besides the widow, seven child-
ren survive, Ira of Indianapolis,
Mrs. Addie Eller of Minot, N. D.
Mrs. Frank Godlove of Idaville.
Margaret, Edna and Leta at home
and Leo of North of Burnettsville
19 grandchildren and 20 great
grandchildren. The funeral will
be held some time Wednesday
Burial in the Davis cemetery
near Burnettsville.
THE LOGANSPORT PRESS
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1930.

COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, Published by F.A. Battey & Co, Chicago, 1883, pg 331

JOHN W. SHULL was born in this township October 24, 1845, and is the sixth of nine children born to Lewis and Clementina (York) Shull, natives of Ohio. Lewis Shull came here in 1835, and here died July 4, 1853, a member of the Baptist Church ; Mrs. Lewis Shull died March 22, 1877, aged-sixty-two years. John W. Shull assisted on the home farm until he answered his country's call to arms in the fall of 1863, when be enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, and was in the Atlanta campaign. At the fight at Franklin, Tenn., he was wounded in the right foot, and during the war was badly broken down by exposure and hardship. After the fall of Atlanta, he was assigned to Gen. Thomas's division, and was honorably discharged April 19, 1866, when he returned to this township and resumed farming. March 1, 1867, he married Miss Margaret, daughter of Aaron Price, and born February 16, 1849. To this marriage were born the following children, viz.: Ida May, May 13, 1868; Ira M., May 16, 1869; Mary C,, January 15, 1871; Wesley A., September 2, 1873; Lola M., March 29, 1875; two sons who died in infancy; Maggie, September 15, 1878, and Omar, January 17, 1882. In March, 1872, Mr. Shull moved upon his present farm on Section 10. He is a Republican, and in 1875 held the office of Assessor; he has also held a number of other minor offices. He is a member of the G. A. R., and he and his wife are members of the Church of God.
Enlisted as a Private on 12 January 1864.
Enlisted in Company F, 128th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 12 Jan 1864.
Mustered Out Company F, 128th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 10 Apr 1866.


J. W. Shull Funeral To
Be Held Wednesday
Moniicello, July 21.—John
Wesley Shull, 84, in Oct. 1929, a
well known and hlgnly respected
Citizen and Civil war veteran of
Monticello. passed away at his
home on North Illinois street
Sunday evening at 8:20 p. m.
The body was taken to the Prevo
and Miller funeral home, where it
will remain until this evening.
Mr. Shull was a minister for
the Church of God for several
years. He was one of three Civil
war veterans in Monticello. One
brother Zepthta of Burnettsville
who is the last of nine children,
survives.
Besides the widow, seven child-
ren survive, Ira of Indianapolis,
Mrs. Addie Eller of Minot, N. D.
Mrs. Frank Godlove of Idaville.
Margaret, Edna and Leta at home
and Leo of North of Burnettsville
19 grandchildren and 20 great
grandchildren. The funeral will
be held some time Wednesday
Burial in the Davis cemetery
near Burnettsville.
THE LOGANSPORT PRESS
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1930.

COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, Published by F.A. Battey & Co, Chicago, 1883, pg 331

JOHN W. SHULL was born in this township October 24, 1845, and is the sixth of nine children born to Lewis and Clementina (York) Shull, natives of Ohio. Lewis Shull came here in 1835, and here died July 4, 1853, a member of the Baptist Church ; Mrs. Lewis Shull died March 22, 1877, aged-sixty-two years. John W. Shull assisted on the home farm until he answered his country's call to arms in the fall of 1863, when be enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, and was in the Atlanta campaign. At the fight at Franklin, Tenn., he was wounded in the right foot, and during the war was badly broken down by exposure and hardship. After the fall of Atlanta, he was assigned to Gen. Thomas's division, and was honorably discharged April 19, 1866, when he returned to this township and resumed farming. March 1, 1867, he married Miss Margaret, daughter of Aaron Price, and born February 16, 1849. To this marriage were born the following children, viz.: Ida May, May 13, 1868; Ira M., May 16, 1869; Mary C,, January 15, 1871; Wesley A., September 2, 1873; Lola M., March 29, 1875; two sons who died in infancy; Maggie, September 15, 1878, and Omar, January 17, 1882. In March, 1872, Mr. Shull moved upon his present farm on Section 10. He is a Republican, and in 1875 held the office of Assessor; he has also held a number of other minor offices. He is a member of the G. A. R., and he and his wife are members of the Church of God.

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Co F. 128th Ind Vol Inf.



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