Son of Alexander Hamilton & Alice Rosetta (Howe) Avery.
Co. I 4th ILL CAV, he joined Aug. 1861 and served over 3 years.
Attended school at Mendota, ILL 1865-66. In the spring of 1866 he went by train to Kansas City and bought a horse and rode north till he came to Richardson County Nebraska where he took a homestead and acquired other land.
He married Angeline Dalbey May 26, 1867 near Humboldt. They lived on the homestead the rest of their lives except 1874-75 when it was rented to B.H. Bailey for a year while they visited kin in Iowa and Illinois.
(This information and photos thanks to Steve Avery)
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Suggested edit: P.O. Avery also wrote a history of the 4th IL CAV.
You can see/read the book at the following link. -
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89077210706&view=1up&seq=8
Contributor: Ace (47553654)
Co. I 4th ILL CAV, he joined Aug. 1861 and served over 3 years.
Attended school at Mendota, ILL 1865-66. In the spring of 1866 he went by train to Kansas City and bought a horse and rode north till he came to Richardson County Nebraska where he took a homestead and acquired other land.
He married Angeline Dalbey May 26, 1867 near Humboldt. They lived on the homestead the rest of their lives except 1874-75 when it was rented to B.H. Bailey for a year while they visited kin in Iowa and Illinois.
(This information and photos thanks to Steve Avery)
****************************************************
Suggested edit: P.O. Avery also wrote a history of the 4th IL CAV.
You can see/read the book at the following link. -
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89077210706&view=1up&seq=8
Contributor: Ace (47553654)
Son of Alexander Hamilton & Alice Rosetta (Howe) Avery.
Co. I 4th ILL CAV, he joined Aug. 1861 and served over 3 years.
Attended school at Mendota, ILL 1865-66. In the spring of 1866 he went by train to Kansas City and bought a horse and rode north till he came to Richardson County Nebraska where he took a homestead and acquired other land.
He married Angeline Dalbey May 26, 1867 near Humboldt. They lived on the homestead the rest of their lives except 1874-75 when it was rented to B.H. Bailey for a year while they visited kin in Iowa and Illinois.
(This information and photos thanks to Steve Avery)
****************************************************
Suggested edit: P.O. Avery also wrote a history of the 4th IL CAV.
You can see/read the book at the following link. -
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89077210706&view=1up&seq=8
Contributor: Ace (47553654)
Co. I 4th ILL CAV, he joined Aug. 1861 and served over 3 years.
Attended school at Mendota, ILL 1865-66. In the spring of 1866 he went by train to Kansas City and bought a horse and rode north till he came to Richardson County Nebraska where he took a homestead and acquired other land.
He married Angeline Dalbey May 26, 1867 near Humboldt. They lived on the homestead the rest of their lives except 1874-75 when it was rented to B.H. Bailey for a year while they visited kin in Iowa and Illinois.
(This information and photos thanks to Steve Avery)
****************************************************
Suggested edit: P.O. Avery also wrote a history of the 4th IL CAV.
You can see/read the book at the following link. -
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89077210706&view=1up&seq=8
Contributor: Ace (47553654)
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