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Alfred Bennett Doolittle

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Alfred Bennett Doolittle

Birth
Page Brook, Chenango County, New York, USA
Death
20 Sep 1888 (aged 74)
Juneau County, Wisconsin, USA
Burial
Elroy, Juneau County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
Plot
Orig Section/Blk 1 - Lt 10
Memorial ID
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NOTE:
JCGS Cemetery Transcription records shows DOD as: 9/20/1888.

WI Death Index shows DOD as: 9/0/1888.

Record: 'Headstones Provided For Deceased Union CW Veterans', shows DOD as: 9/22/1888.

Obituary states DOD as: 9/21/1888.

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CIVIL WAR (UNION) VETERAN:
CO. E
18TH WIS INFANTRY

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SP0USE: [M. 1836 ]
Laura Maria (Stanclift) Doolittle

KNOWN CHILDREN: [1]
John F.

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“ELROY TRIBUNE”
Elroy, Wisconsin
Thursday, September 27th, 1888
[Page 1]

DIED

DOOLITTLE ___ on Friday evening, Sept 21, at his home of paralysis, A. B. Doolittle, age 74 years, 10 months and 18 days.

The funeral took place at the M. E. Church Sunday afternoon with a large attendance. Will give obituary next week.

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“ELROY TRIBUNE”
Elroy, Wisconsin
Thursday, October 4th, 1888
[Page 1]

Alfred Bennett Doolittle was born in Page Brook, New York, on the 13th of November, 1813. In his early life he worked at lumbering and carpentering. In 1836 he was married to Laura Maria Stanclift. They went with a team and wagon to Steuben Co., Indiana, bought land from the government, and went to farming. He sold that farm 43 years ago, and as he had, for some time, been studying for the ministry, he now became an intinerent minister of the United Brethren Church and traveled missions and (? Unreadable). He was at one time located at Louisburg, Ind., becoming unsatisfied with the unhealthfulness of that country he came still farther west and settled on the farm on which he died. Still following his profession, he again went to traveling for the church in 1860, but stopped on account of the war. He enlisted in Co. E., 18th Wisconsin Infantry, was taken prisoner in the battle of Shiloh and was parolled the following year. He then came home and resumed his ministerial profession. In the spring of 1866 he moved back on his farm near Elroy, where he has since resided. He leaves a wife and many friends to mourn their loss.

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NOTE:
JCGS Cemetery Transcription records shows DOD as: 9/20/1888.

WI Death Index shows DOD as: 9/0/1888.

Record: 'Headstones Provided For Deceased Union CW Veterans', shows DOD as: 9/22/1888.

Obituary states DOD as: 9/21/1888.

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CIVIL WAR (UNION) VETERAN:
CO. E
18TH WIS INFANTRY

**********************************
SP0USE: [M. 1836 ]
Laura Maria (Stanclift) Doolittle

KNOWN CHILDREN: [1]
John F.

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“ELROY TRIBUNE”
Elroy, Wisconsin
Thursday, September 27th, 1888
[Page 1]

DIED

DOOLITTLE ___ on Friday evening, Sept 21, at his home of paralysis, A. B. Doolittle, age 74 years, 10 months and 18 days.

The funeral took place at the M. E. Church Sunday afternoon with a large attendance. Will give obituary next week.

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“ELROY TRIBUNE”
Elroy, Wisconsin
Thursday, October 4th, 1888
[Page 1]

Alfred Bennett Doolittle was born in Page Brook, New York, on the 13th of November, 1813. In his early life he worked at lumbering and carpentering. In 1836 he was married to Laura Maria Stanclift. They went with a team and wagon to Steuben Co., Indiana, bought land from the government, and went to farming. He sold that farm 43 years ago, and as he had, for some time, been studying for the ministry, he now became an intinerent minister of the United Brethren Church and traveled missions and (? Unreadable). He was at one time located at Louisburg, Ind., becoming unsatisfied with the unhealthfulness of that country he came still farther west and settled on the farm on which he died. Still following his profession, he again went to traveling for the church in 1860, but stopped on account of the war. He enlisted in Co. E., 18th Wisconsin Infantry, was taken prisoner in the battle of Shiloh and was parolled the following year. He then came home and resumed his ministerial profession. In the spring of 1866 he moved back on his farm near Elroy, where he has since resided. He leaves a wife and many friends to mourn their loss.

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