The Quill, page 4
Tuesday, April 15, 1919
OBITUARY.
Don Carlos Salisbury, brother of Fred Salisbury of this city, died at his home in Ferris, Ill., April 8, 1919, aged 76 years, 5 months and 11 days. He was born in Plymouth, Ill., Oct. 24, 1841. At nine years he was left an orphan by the death of his father and was brought up by his cousins, Barnett and Maria Wooley [Woolley], of Colchester, Ill. He became a member of Capt. Smith's cadets at Middleton, now Fandon, in McDonough county, and enlisted in that cadet company in Co. C. 16th Reg. Illinois Volunteers and served three years and a month, during which service he led a charge on a Confederate fort, capturing their flag personally, the flag being now on exhibition to his credit with other captured flags of the Civil war in the flag museum at Springfield, Ill. He suffered injuries in the Civil war which were permanent, and made him helpless the last five years.
After the war he toured the west and returning married Sibian Wyman [sic] of Fountain Green, who survives him with five children and eight grandchildren. The children are Herbert S, of Kansas City; Mrs. J. E. Dean and Albert, of Carthage; Dr. Emma H[.] S. Peterson, of Chicago, and Mrs. W. E. Monfort, of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Don C. Salisbury held various township offices in Fountain Green, Pilot Grove, Carthage and Rock Creek townships, was secretary of the Burnside Lodge of Masons several years and a staunch member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was an elder in the reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints, his mo[t]her Catherine Smith Salisbury having been the sister of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. When Brigham Young usurped all authority in the church and organized it, she together with the other sisters, brothers and widow of Joseph Smith refused to receive Brigham's false doctrines of polygamy, etc., and remained in Illinois at the time of the migration to Utah.
Don C. Salisbury's grandfather, Gideon Salisbury, was a soldier in Col. Graham's New York regiment in the American Revolution. His grandfather Solomon Mack, of Connecticut, was in Israel Putnam's company in the French and Indian war, and afterwards in the Revolution. His great grandfather [sic], Asahel Smith, was a Massachusetts captain at the Battle of Lexington in 1775, and Asahel Smith's father Samuel Smith, chairman of the Topsfield, Mass. Tea Com., and member of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775.
Other ancestors of his were in the Pequot war and King Philip's war, and were Puritan and Scotch Covenanter founders of the New England colonies.
He was true to the Puritan principles, a good neighbor and a progressive citizen. All who knew him were his friends.
Funeral services were held at the M. P. church in Ferris Tuesday of last week, conducted by the Burnside Masons and Rev. Burton of Kansas City.
The Quill, page 4
Tuesday, April 15, 1919
OBITUARY.
Don Carlos Salisbury, brother of Fred Salisbury of this city, died at his home in Ferris, Ill., April 8, 1919, aged 76 years, 5 months and 11 days. He was born in Plymouth, Ill., Oct. 24, 1841. At nine years he was left an orphan by the death of his father and was brought up by his cousins, Barnett and Maria Wooley [Woolley], of Colchester, Ill. He became a member of Capt. Smith's cadets at Middleton, now Fandon, in McDonough county, and enlisted in that cadet company in Co. C. 16th Reg. Illinois Volunteers and served three years and a month, during which service he led a charge on a Confederate fort, capturing their flag personally, the flag being now on exhibition to his credit with other captured flags of the Civil war in the flag museum at Springfield, Ill. He suffered injuries in the Civil war which were permanent, and made him helpless the last five years.
After the war he toured the west and returning married Sibian Wyman [sic] of Fountain Green, who survives him with five children and eight grandchildren. The children are Herbert S, of Kansas City; Mrs. J. E. Dean and Albert, of Carthage; Dr. Emma H[.] S. Peterson, of Chicago, and Mrs. W. E. Monfort, of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Don C. Salisbury held various township offices in Fountain Green, Pilot Grove, Carthage and Rock Creek townships, was secretary of the Burnside Lodge of Masons several years and a staunch member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was an elder in the reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints, his mo[t]her Catherine Smith Salisbury having been the sister of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. When Brigham Young usurped all authority in the church and organized it, she together with the other sisters, brothers and widow of Joseph Smith refused to receive Brigham's false doctrines of polygamy, etc., and remained in Illinois at the time of the migration to Utah.
Don C. Salisbury's grandfather, Gideon Salisbury, was a soldier in Col. Graham's New York regiment in the American Revolution. His grandfather Solomon Mack, of Connecticut, was in Israel Putnam's company in the French and Indian war, and afterwards in the Revolution. His great grandfather [sic], Asahel Smith, was a Massachusetts captain at the Battle of Lexington in 1775, and Asahel Smith's father Samuel Smith, chairman of the Topsfield, Mass. Tea Com., and member of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775.
Other ancestors of his were in the Pequot war and King Philip's war, and were Puritan and Scotch Covenanter founders of the New England colonies.
He was true to the Puritan principles, a good neighbor and a progressive citizen. All who knew him were his friends.
Funeral services were held at the M. P. church in Ferris Tuesday of last week, conducted by the Burnside Masons and Rev. Burton of Kansas City.
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