Levi Edwin LaBrant, 1844-1924

LABRANT, EDINBURN, GILBERT, LIVINGSTON, GARRETT

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Date: 1/7/2013 at 19:52:55

Levi Edwin LaBrant, who for more than a quarter of a century has been a resident of Clay county, passed away Friday morning at nine a.m. at his home in the Union Block, following a several weeks illness, the past week being spent in bed. His death was due to heart trouble. He was born in Crawford county, Ohio, July 5, 1844, and was one of a family of thirteen children. He was about nineteen years of age when in 1863 he donned the blue uniform of the nation and offered his service to the government in defense of the Stars and Stripes. He went to the front with Co. C of the 17th Ill. Cavalry and served two years. Mr. LaBrant was first duty sergeant. At the close of the war he took up his abode in Illinois and in 1883 he came to Iowa and purchased land in what was then Spencer township but is now Sioux township, Clay county. He lived in Spencer for five years beginning in 1897 and then returned to the farm where he remained for a period of three years. He then came again to Spencer and had made this his home since.

On the 25th of December, 1868, Mr. LaBrant was married to Miss Alice Edinburn. There were three children of that marriage, Albert B., Gertrude E. who died at the age of seven years and one who died in infancy.

Mrs. Alice LaBrant passed away September 10, 1877. On the 14th of December, 1880, Mr. LaBrant wedded Mrs. Isabel Gilbert. There is one son of the second marriage, Roy Seeber, who was married to Miss Audrey Livingston, daughter of A.J. Livingston of Spencer, on August 2, 1905. They are now living on his father's farm. Mrs. LaBrant died in 1912 and in 1913 he was united in marriage to Miss Mollie Garrett at Reading, Pa. They have been spending their winters in California and returned to Spencer several weeks ago. Mr. LaBrant held membership in the Congreational church and belonged also to Annett Post G.A.R. thus maintaining cordial and friendly relations with his old army comrades.

He leaves to mourn his death wife and son, Roy S., and five grandsons, Simon, Roscoe and Merle of St. Paul, Robert and Donald of Spencer.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at two-thirty o'clock in the chapel at the Cobb Funeral Home, conducted by Rev. T. B. Collins. Interment was made in Riverside cemetery. The pall bearers were old soldiers and members of the Legion firing squad. The G.A.R. had charge of the services at the grave.

Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; July 2, 1924,

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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