George Vesey, Sr.

VESEY, BARTLETT, CALL, MCEVANS, ORMSBY, MITCHELL

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Date: 2/7/2009 at 19:29:36

Death of a Civil War Veteran

George Vesey, Sr., an aged and respected resident of Monticello, died last Sunday morning, May 7, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S. E. Bartlett. The deceased had been ill for a number of weeks, and his death was caused by the general infirmities of old age.

Mr. Vesey was the son of the late Samuel and Mary Vesey. He was one of a family of thirteen children, and was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1836. Therefore at the time of his decease his age was 86 years, 1 month and 11 days. He came to Iowa in the year 1856, and located in Delaware county. He enlisted as a volunteer in the army of the north, in 1861, in Company F of the 7th Illinois Regulars. He served during the entire war, and at one time was shot through the body. In fact he carried a bullet in his body during his entire life, which was received during an engagement in the war. Mr. Vesey was married to Miss Harriet Call at Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1865. There were twelve children born to this union, two of whom died in infancy. The surviving children are Charles, George, Isaac, Fred, and Mrs. S. E. Bartlett of Monticello; Mrs. James Bartlett of Brainard; John Vesey of Fort Dodge; Henry Vesey of Manchester; Mrs. G. McEvans of Bryan, Texas; Mrs. William Ormsby of Grandview, Idaho. In addition to these children, the deceased is survived by 55 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren. Mr. Vesey resided in the vicinity of Hopkinton since 1856, with the exception of four years which he spent as a soldier in the Civil War and the past six years which were spent with his children in Monticello. Mrs. Vesey died in 1912.

Short services were held in the Bartlett home in Monticello, last Monday afternoon. Final services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church at Hopkinton. The services were conducted by the Rev. William Hayes Mitchell, the pastor of the Monticello Methodist Episcopal church, assisted by the pastor of the Hopkinton church. Burial was had in the Hopkinton cemetery. The services at the grave were unusually impressive, and were conducted by members of the Arthur P. O'Rourke post of the American Legion for Monticello. Fifteen members of the post accompanied the remains to its final resting place. This group of men included a color guard, a color bearer, standard bearer, firing squad, and bugler. At the close of the reading of the ritual for the dead, the squad fired three volleys over the grave of the deceased, and the exercises closed by the sounding of "Taps", the most beautiful of all bugler calls.

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