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Urias Brogan

Birth
Claiborne County, Tennessee, USA
Death
30 Jan 1911 (aged 77)
Mercer County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Princeton, Mercer County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Urias Brogan b. Sep 8 1833, January 30, 1911 Mercer 2466 F-John Brogan M-Dorcas Honeycutt buried Pleasant Ridge

The Princeton Telegraph Princeton, Missouri 01 Feb 1911, Wed • Page 1
Urias Brogan, Buried Yesterday at Tennessee Cemetery, Had Lived in Mercer County 53 Years--Was Civil War Veteran
Urias Brogan, seventy-seven years of age and for more than half a century a resident of Mercer county, died Monday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Blakesley, six miles northwest of Princeton, after an illness of many months. Following appropriate funeral services conducted yesterday afternoon by Rev. Chas Hickman, pastor of the Pleasant Ridge church, the remains were interred in the Lower Tennessee cemetery by the side of the wife who preceded him in death about five years ago.
Urias Brogan was a native of Calibourne county, Tennessee. There he grew to manhood and married. About 1857 he started with his wife sad two children for Mercer county, but the wife became ill on the way and died at Kirksville, Mo., where she was buried. Mr. Brogan proceeded with his motherless children to this section and settled on a farm near where he died.
In the autumn of 1862 Mr. Brogan was one of the seventy-nine Mercer countrymen who enlisted in the 27th Regiment to fight for the preservation of the national union, being a member of Co. G of that organization. Later he was transferred to Co. "H" of the 22nd Missouri Infantry and was honorably discharged from the service after serving until the close of the war. Mr. Brogan's second marriage was to Mrs. Mary Snyder, who died about five years ago. To this union were born three daughter Mrs. Grant Lewis, Mrs. C. E. Blakesley and Mrs. Ora Morin, wife of J. J. Morin, who died a few years ago. The deceased was an honored and respected citizens and merited and enjoyed the full confidence of his fellowmen. His Integrity was never questioned and many surviving citizens could point to him as a loyal friend.
See MO death records
Urias Brogan b. Sep 8 1833, January 30, 1911 Mercer 2466 F-John Brogan M-Dorcas Honeycutt buried Pleasant Ridge

The Princeton Telegraph Princeton, Missouri 01 Feb 1911, Wed • Page 1
Urias Brogan, Buried Yesterday at Tennessee Cemetery, Had Lived in Mercer County 53 Years--Was Civil War Veteran
Urias Brogan, seventy-seven years of age and for more than half a century a resident of Mercer county, died Monday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Blakesley, six miles northwest of Princeton, after an illness of many months. Following appropriate funeral services conducted yesterday afternoon by Rev. Chas Hickman, pastor of the Pleasant Ridge church, the remains were interred in the Lower Tennessee cemetery by the side of the wife who preceded him in death about five years ago.
Urias Brogan was a native of Calibourne county, Tennessee. There he grew to manhood and married. About 1857 he started with his wife sad two children for Mercer county, but the wife became ill on the way and died at Kirksville, Mo., where she was buried. Mr. Brogan proceeded with his motherless children to this section and settled on a farm near where he died.
In the autumn of 1862 Mr. Brogan was one of the seventy-nine Mercer countrymen who enlisted in the 27th Regiment to fight for the preservation of the national union, being a member of Co. G of that organization. Later he was transferred to Co. "H" of the 22nd Missouri Infantry and was honorably discharged from the service after serving until the close of the war. Mr. Brogan's second marriage was to Mrs. Mary Snyder, who died about five years ago. To this union were born three daughter Mrs. Grant Lewis, Mrs. C. E. Blakesley and Mrs. Ora Morin, wife of J. J. Morin, who died a few years ago. The deceased was an honored and respected citizens and merited and enjoyed the full confidence of his fellowmen. His Integrity was never questioned and many surviving citizens could point to him as a loyal friend.


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