The late Sidney Alonzo Jewett, a veteran of the Civil War and who for years was Superintendent of Beech Grove Cemetery, was born in the state of New York, June 16, 1833, and was five years of age when in 1838 his father, Jeremiah Jewett, a native of Highgate, Vermont, came out into Indiana with his family and settled at Old Muncietown, where, among his other pioneer activities, he presently opened a lime quarry across the river off the present extension of Walnut Street, and established a lime kiln, the first in the settlement, as is set out elsewhere in this work. Jeremiah Jewett spent the remainder of his days here and lived to be eighty-four years of age. Sidney A. Jewett grew to manhood in Muncie, helpful in the operations of his father's limekiln. In 1857 he married Jane Conn, and was living here when the Civil War broke out. He early enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company B of the 69th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which gallant command he served until the close of the war and was mustered out on July 5, 1865. Upon the completion of his military service he returned to Muncie, where the remainder of his live was spent, his death occurring on February 3, 1904. He was an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. For fifteen years prior to his death he had served the public as Superintendent of Beech Grove Cemetery. He was a member of the Universalist Church and his wife of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They were the parents of five children, Frederick, Ida, wife of Fred Watson; Charles E., deceased; William M, who died in California; and Nellie." (History of Delaware County, Vol 2 by F D Haimbaugh)
The late Sidney Alonzo Jewett, a veteran of the Civil War and who for years was Superintendent of Beech Grove Cemetery, was born in the state of New York, June 16, 1833, and was five years of age when in 1838 his father, Jeremiah Jewett, a native of Highgate, Vermont, came out into Indiana with his family and settled at Old Muncietown, where, among his other pioneer activities, he presently opened a lime quarry across the river off the present extension of Walnut Street, and established a lime kiln, the first in the settlement, as is set out elsewhere in this work. Jeremiah Jewett spent the remainder of his days here and lived to be eighty-four years of age. Sidney A. Jewett grew to manhood in Muncie, helpful in the operations of his father's limekiln. In 1857 he married Jane Conn, and was living here when the Civil War broke out. He early enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company B of the 69th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which gallant command he served until the close of the war and was mustered out on July 5, 1865. Upon the completion of his military service he returned to Muncie, where the remainder of his live was spent, his death occurring on February 3, 1904. He was an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. For fifteen years prior to his death he had served the public as Superintendent of Beech Grove Cemetery. He was a member of the Universalist Church and his wife of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They were the parents of five children, Frederick, Ida, wife of Fred Watson; Charles E., deceased; William M, who died in California; and Nellie." (History of Delaware County, Vol 2 by F D Haimbaugh)
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