Confederate military marker: "86 ALA. VOL. INF."
Rev. Melancthon C. Crews died at his home near Inwood, Indiana, Thursday, April 25, 1918 at the age of 78. The body was brought to Mansfield (Illinois) Saturday on the afternoon Wabash train, accompanied by his wife and daughter, Miss Rebekah and conveyed to the Methodist Episcopal Church where a short service was conducted by Rev. Tharp, after which the remains were taken to the Mansfield cemetery for interment.
The deceased was well known here, having married Miss Rebekah Van Meter and lived on their farm north of Mansfield a number of years. After the death of his wife he was married to Miss Kate Cornell of Farmer City, to which union one daughter was born, who is left with her mother to mourn the loss of a kind husband and indulgent father.
The deceased was born in Mississippi and graduated in the college at Birmingham, Alabama and at the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate Army in which he proved a brave soldier and carried to the grave scores of scars on his body from gunshot wounds received in the service.
He was a minister of the Southern M. E. Church, and a fine public speaker, and most esteemed by everybody as a minister and for his sterling qualities. [taken from his obituary. Mansfield Express, dated May 3, 1918; provided by Max Turpin]
Rev. Melancthon C. Crews died at his home near Inwood, Indiana, Thursday, April 25, 1918 at the age of 78. The body was brought to Mansfield (Illinois) Saturday on the afternoon Wabash train, accompanied by his wife and daughter, Miss Rebekah and conveyed to the Methodist Episcopal Church where a short service was conducted by Rev. Tharp, after which the remains were taken to the Mansfield cemetery for interment.
The deceased was well known here, having married Miss Rebekah Van Meter and lived on their farm north of Mansfield a number of years. After the death of his wife he was married to Miss Kate Cornell of Farmer City, to which union one daughter was born, who is left with her mother to mourn the loss of a kind husband and indulgent father.
The deceased was born in Mississippi and graduated in the college at Birmingham, Alabama and at the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate Army in which he proved a brave soldier and carried to the grave scores of scars on his body from gunshot wounds received in the service.
He was a minister of the Southern M. E. Church, and a fine public speaker, and most esteemed by everybody as a minister and for his sterling qualities. [taken from his obituary. Mansfield Express, dated May 3, 1918; provided by Max Turpin]
Confederate military marker: "86 ALA. VOL. INF."
Rev. Melancthon C. Crews died at his home near Inwood, Indiana, Thursday, April 25, 1918 at the age of 78. The body was brought to Mansfield (Illinois) Saturday on the afternoon Wabash train, accompanied by his wife and daughter, Miss Rebekah and conveyed to the Methodist Episcopal Church where a short service was conducted by Rev. Tharp, after which the remains were taken to the Mansfield cemetery for interment.
The deceased was well known here, having married Miss Rebekah Van Meter and lived on their farm north of Mansfield a number of years. After the death of his wife he was married to Miss Kate Cornell of Farmer City, to which union one daughter was born, who is left with her mother to mourn the loss of a kind husband and indulgent father.
The deceased was born in Mississippi and graduated in the college at Birmingham, Alabama and at the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate Army in which he proved a brave soldier and carried to the grave scores of scars on his body from gunshot wounds received in the service.
He was a minister of the Southern M. E. Church, and a fine public speaker, and most esteemed by everybody as a minister and for his sterling qualities. [taken from his obituary. Mansfield Express, dated May 3, 1918; provided by Max Turpin]
Rev. Melancthon C. Crews died at his home near Inwood, Indiana, Thursday, April 25, 1918 at the age of 78. The body was brought to Mansfield (Illinois) Saturday on the afternoon Wabash train, accompanied by his wife and daughter, Miss Rebekah and conveyed to the Methodist Episcopal Church where a short service was conducted by Rev. Tharp, after which the remains were taken to the Mansfield cemetery for interment.
The deceased was well known here, having married Miss Rebekah Van Meter and lived on their farm north of Mansfield a number of years. After the death of his wife he was married to Miss Kate Cornell of Farmer City, to which union one daughter was born, who is left with her mother to mourn the loss of a kind husband and indulgent father.
The deceased was born in Mississippi and graduated in the college at Birmingham, Alabama and at the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate Army in which he proved a brave soldier and carried to the grave scores of scars on his body from gunshot wounds received in the service.
He was a minister of the Southern M. E. Church, and a fine public speaker, and most esteemed by everybody as a minister and for his sterling qualities. [taken from his obituary. Mansfield Express, dated May 3, 1918; provided by Max Turpin]
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