CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES
George W. Bever, one of the few remaining survivors of the Civil War, passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Frazier, 12 miles east Sedan, January 22nd. He was 99 years of age, probably the oldest resident of the county. He had been making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Frazier for the past 16 months.
Funeral services were conducted at Girard, Kansas, last Saturday, Jan. 25, at 2 p. m.conducted by Rev. Babb at the funeral home of Dosey and Babb.
Mr. Bever had a rich fund of dangerous experiences during his service in the Civil War that he could relate in an interesting way. He was attending college at Crawfordsville, Indiana, when Lincoln’s first call for troops was issued. With a number of other students he enlisted as a body guard for General Ellsmore. Gen. Ellsmore was killed while taking down a rebel flag over a hotel in Virginia. Mr. Bever carried a message from Gen. Ellsmore to Gen. Meade, commander-in-chief of the eastern division. Mr. Bever was then transferred to the 22nd cavalry under General Kilpatrick, which was engaged in scouting. His most dangerous and thrilling experience was probably at the battle of Appomatox, where with the responsibilities of an orderly his company penetrated beyond the southern army in cutting communications and silencing batteries. Of his original company only seventeen came through the war alive. One incident he often related was when with 18 other, in a ‘death squad” assignment from which it was expecting none would survive, charged a heavily defended gap in a stone wall. He and four others came through the ordeal alive.
He witnessed the surrender of General Lee to General Grant and never tired of telling of the courtesy of General Grant towards General Lee at that time. He was honorably discharged after three years and eleven months of service. The end of his life came peacefully and through no special suffering or illness, as the machinery of his body gradually and gently wore out until the end came.
GEORGE W. BEVER IS DEAD George W. Bever, 98-year-old Civil war veteran and pioneer of Crawford county, died yesterday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Frazier, at Havana. Mr. Bever, who bad been in good health until recently, had made his home with Mrs. Frazier two years. He was a retired farmer.
Nine children survive Mr. Bever, whose wife died eighteen years ago. The children, in addition to Mrs. Frazier, are Mrs. H. A. Holser of Pittsburg, Mrs. Rosie Rosenburg, Mrs. Grace Henry and James P. Bever of Los Angeles. Miles E. Bever, Ernest T. Bever and Mrs. Ida Henry of Anaheim, Calif., and Mrs. Max Holzer of Girard.
The body was removed to a funeral home at Girard.
George W. Bever, one of the few remaining survivors of the Civil War, passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Frazier, 12 miles east Sedan, January 22nd. He was 99 years of age, probably the oldest resident of the county. He had been making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Frazier for the past 16 months.
Funeral services were conducted at Girard, Kansas, last Saturday, Jan. 25, at 2 p. m.conducted by Rev. Babb at the funeral home of Dosey and Babb.
Mr. Bever had a rich fund of dangerous experiences during his service in the Civil War that he could relate in an interesting way. He was attending college at Crawfordsville, Indiana, when Lincoln’s first call for troops was issued. With a number of other students he enlisted as a body guard for General Ellsmore. Gen. Ellsmore was killed while taking down a rebel flag over a hotel in Virginia. Mr. Bever carried a message from Gen. Ellsmore to Gen. Meade, commander-in-chief of the eastern division. Mr. Bever was then transferred to the 22nd cavalry under General Kilpatrick, which was engaged in scouting. His most dangerous and thrilling experience was probably at the battle of Appomatox, where with the responsibilities of an orderly his company penetrated beyond the southern army in cutting communications and silencing batteries. Of his original company only seventeen came through the war alive. One incident he often related was when with 18 other, in a ‘death squad” assignment from which it was expecting none would survive, charged a heavily defended gap in a stone wall. He and four others came through the ordeal alive.
He witnessed the surrender of General Lee to General Grant and never tired of telling of the courtesy of General Grant towards General Lee at that time. He was honorably discharged after three years and eleven months of service. The end of his life came peacefully and through no special suffering or illness, as the machinery of his body gradually and gently wore out until the end came.
GEORGE W. BEVER IS DEAD George W. Bever, 98-year-old Civil war veteran and pioneer of Crawford county, died yesterday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Frazier, at Havana. Mr. Bever, who bad been in good health until recently, had made his home with Mrs. Frazier two years. He was a retired farmer.
Nine children survive Mr. Bever, whose wife died eighteen years ago. The children, in addition to Mrs. Frazier, are Mrs. H. A. Holser of Pittsburg, Mrs. Rosie Rosenburg, Mrs. Grace Henry and James P. Bever of Los Angeles. Miles E. Bever, Ernest T. Bever and Mrs. Ida Henry of Anaheim, Calif., and Mrs. Max Holzer of Girard.
The body was removed to a funeral home at Girard.
CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES
George W. Bever, one of the few remaining survivors of the Civil War, passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Frazier, 12 miles east Sedan, January 22nd. He was 99 years of age, probably the oldest resident of the county. He had been making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Frazier for the past 16 months.
Funeral services were conducted at Girard, Kansas, last Saturday, Jan. 25, at 2 p. m.conducted by Rev. Babb at the funeral home of Dosey and Babb.
Mr. Bever had a rich fund of dangerous experiences during his service in the Civil War that he could relate in an interesting way. He was attending college at Crawfordsville, Indiana, when Lincoln’s first call for troops was issued. With a number of other students he enlisted as a body guard for General Ellsmore. Gen. Ellsmore was killed while taking down a rebel flag over a hotel in Virginia. Mr. Bever carried a message from Gen. Ellsmore to Gen. Meade, commander-in-chief of the eastern division. Mr. Bever was then transferred to the 22nd cavalry under General Kilpatrick, which was engaged in scouting. His most dangerous and thrilling experience was probably at the battle of Appomatox, where with the responsibilities of an orderly his company penetrated beyond the southern army in cutting communications and silencing batteries. Of his original company only seventeen came through the war alive. One incident he often related was when with 18 other, in a ‘death squad” assignment from which it was expecting none would survive, charged a heavily defended gap in a stone wall. He and four others came through the ordeal alive.
He witnessed the surrender of General Lee to General Grant and never tired of telling of the courtesy of General Grant towards General Lee at that time. He was honorably discharged after three years and eleven months of service. The end of his life came peacefully and through no special suffering or illness, as the machinery of his body gradually and gently wore out until the end came.
GEORGE W. BEVER IS DEAD George W. Bever, 98-year-old Civil war veteran and pioneer of Crawford county, died yesterday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Frazier, at Havana. Mr. Bever, who bad been in good health until recently, had made his home with Mrs. Frazier two years. He was a retired farmer.
Nine children survive Mr. Bever, whose wife died eighteen years ago. The children, in addition to Mrs. Frazier, are Mrs. H. A. Holser of Pittsburg, Mrs. Rosie Rosenburg, Mrs. Grace Henry and James P. Bever of Los Angeles. Miles E. Bever, Ernest T. Bever and Mrs. Ida Henry of Anaheim, Calif., and Mrs. Max Holzer of Girard.
The body was removed to a funeral home at Girard.
George W. Bever, one of the few remaining survivors of the Civil War, passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Frazier, 12 miles east Sedan, January 22nd. He was 99 years of age, probably the oldest resident of the county. He had been making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Frazier for the past 16 months.
Funeral services were conducted at Girard, Kansas, last Saturday, Jan. 25, at 2 p. m.conducted by Rev. Babb at the funeral home of Dosey and Babb.
Mr. Bever had a rich fund of dangerous experiences during his service in the Civil War that he could relate in an interesting way. He was attending college at Crawfordsville, Indiana, when Lincoln’s first call for troops was issued. With a number of other students he enlisted as a body guard for General Ellsmore. Gen. Ellsmore was killed while taking down a rebel flag over a hotel in Virginia. Mr. Bever carried a message from Gen. Ellsmore to Gen. Meade, commander-in-chief of the eastern division. Mr. Bever was then transferred to the 22nd cavalry under General Kilpatrick, which was engaged in scouting. His most dangerous and thrilling experience was probably at the battle of Appomatox, where with the responsibilities of an orderly his company penetrated beyond the southern army in cutting communications and silencing batteries. Of his original company only seventeen came through the war alive. One incident he often related was when with 18 other, in a ‘death squad” assignment from which it was expecting none would survive, charged a heavily defended gap in a stone wall. He and four others came through the ordeal alive.
He witnessed the surrender of General Lee to General Grant and never tired of telling of the courtesy of General Grant towards General Lee at that time. He was honorably discharged after three years and eleven months of service. The end of his life came peacefully and through no special suffering or illness, as the machinery of his body gradually and gently wore out until the end came.
GEORGE W. BEVER IS DEAD George W. Bever, 98-year-old Civil war veteran and pioneer of Crawford county, died yesterday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. William Frazier, at Havana. Mr. Bever, who bad been in good health until recently, had made his home with Mrs. Frazier two years. He was a retired farmer.
Nine children survive Mr. Bever, whose wife died eighteen years ago. The children, in addition to Mrs. Frazier, are Mrs. H. A. Holser of Pittsburg, Mrs. Rosie Rosenburg, Mrs. Grace Henry and James P. Bever of Los Angeles. Miles E. Bever, Ernest T. Bever and Mrs. Ida Henry of Anaheim, Calif., and Mrs. Max Holzer of Girard.
The body was removed to a funeral home at Girard.
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