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Joseph Addison Gilkey

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Joseph Addison Gilkey

Birth
Alamo, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA
Death
12 Apr 1893 (aged 64)
Marion, Grant County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Winamac, Pulaski County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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A telegram was received here Thursday evening from North Judson addressed to Robert Gilkey, of Ripley Township, stating that his brother Joseph A. Gilkey was dead and that his remains would be taken to Winimac for burial. There were no other particulars given. It is known that he was in poor health and had been for years. He was an inmate of the Soldier's Home at Marion whither he had gone when he became unable to gain a livelihood by his own efforts. Mr. Gilkey was born and reared in this county and lived nearly all his life in Ripley Township. Along back in the 50s he was one of the editors of The Journal for about a year, but most of his life was spent in teaching school and farming. He enlisted from this county in the 135 th regiment and served with that organization until it was mustered out. A few years ago he went to Winamac where his wife died and where she is buried. He was a genial, pleasant gentleman and carried with him wherever he went the sunshine of a happy heart not with standing the great adversities which encountered him in the later years of his life.
-Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, April 15, 1893
A telegram was received here Thursday evening from North Judson addressed to Robert Gilkey, of Ripley Township, stating that his brother Joseph A. Gilkey was dead and that his remains would be taken to Winimac for burial. There were no other particulars given. It is known that he was in poor health and had been for years. He was an inmate of the Soldier's Home at Marion whither he had gone when he became unable to gain a livelihood by his own efforts. Mr. Gilkey was born and reared in this county and lived nearly all his life in Ripley Township. Along back in the 50s he was one of the editors of The Journal for about a year, but most of his life was spent in teaching school and farming. He enlisted from this county in the 135 th regiment and served with that organization until it was mustered out. A few years ago he went to Winamac where his wife died and where she is buried. He was a genial, pleasant gentleman and carried with him wherever he went the sunshine of a happy heart not with standing the great adversities which encountered him in the later years of his life.
-Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, April 15, 1893

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Aged 64y. 17d.

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