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Abel Thomas Reames

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Abel Thomas Reames

Birth
Logan County, Ohio, USA
Death
12 Jun 1911 (aged 72)
District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Burial
Richland, Keokuk County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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First born son of Hezekiah James Reames and Elizabeth Johnson. Brother of Ezra Jack, Robert Martin, Josiah F. and Melissa Reames Heath. He married Margaret E. Stewart Furrell in 1867. He was a Civil War survivor, having served in Co D+H of the 96th Ohio Infantry. He enlisted Co H 08-19-1862; assume Co D 11-08-1862 as a Private; was promoted to Corporal 11-15-1864; was a POW; discharged 07-07-1865 at Mobile, AL.

"Body of A. T. Reams, who died while visiting at Washington D. C., was brought back and buried from the Methodist Episcopal church, in Hedrick. He was a prominent civil war veteran."
*Published in the Spirit Lake Beacon, Spirit Lake, Dickinson County, Iowa, June 22, 1911.

(Note: He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Arthur S. (Pearl) Henderson, 615 North Carolina Avenue southeast, Washington, D.C. - published Washington Post)

Father of: George C. Reams and Pearl Reams.
First born son of Hezekiah James Reames and Elizabeth Johnson. Brother of Ezra Jack, Robert Martin, Josiah F. and Melissa Reames Heath. He married Margaret E. Stewart Furrell in 1867. He was a Civil War survivor, having served in Co D+H of the 96th Ohio Infantry. He enlisted Co H 08-19-1862; assume Co D 11-08-1862 as a Private; was promoted to Corporal 11-15-1864; was a POW; discharged 07-07-1865 at Mobile, AL.

"Body of A. T. Reams, who died while visiting at Washington D. C., was brought back and buried from the Methodist Episcopal church, in Hedrick. He was a prominent civil war veteran."
*Published in the Spirit Lake Beacon, Spirit Lake, Dickinson County, Iowa, June 22, 1911.

(Note: He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Arthur S. (Pearl) Henderson, 615 North Carolina Avenue southeast, Washington, D.C. - published Washington Post)

Father of: George C. Reams and Pearl Reams.

Gravesite Details

From 1930s WPA Graves Registration Survey



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