Henry C. Abel 1837-1921

ABEL, PAUL, BAKER

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Date: 1/6/2008 at 05:34:48

Henry C. Abel Passes Away
Henry C. Abel was born in Elizabethtown, Essex county, N.Y., June 7, 1837. He passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Albert Paul, in Oelwein, Iowa, April 13, 1921 following an illness of several months. He was united in marriage to Annette Baker in Moriah, N.Y., in 1860, and in 1866 the family went west and located in Clayton county, Iowa. Two years later they purchased a farm five miles southwest of Fayette and resided there until December 1907, when in consequence of advanced age they came to Oelwein to make their home with their daughter, Mrs. Paul. Mrs. Abel passed away in May 1908, and Mr. Abel continued to make his home with his daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Abel were the parents of four children, two sons and two daughters. One daughter, Florence, died in infancy and one son, Charles E., passed away July 11, 1905. One son, George R., and a daughter, Myra J. Paul, both of Oelwein, survive him.

Following prayer at the Paul home, Friday at 12:30, by Dr. Cleworth of the M.E. church, the body was taken to Fayette, where the last services were held from the M.E. church, conducted by Dr. D.M. Parker at 2:30, followed by interment in the Fayette cemetery by the side of the wife and mother.

Mr. Abel was a man who made and retained friends. He was a pioneer of Fayette county, coming here following the close of the Civil War. He was a kind husband and father, and many of the old neighbors, not only in Fayette and Oelwein but in Essex county, as well, sympathize with the loss susutained by the son and daughter.

~The Adirondack Record - Elizabethtown Post;
Elizabethtown, Essex co., N.Y.
Friday, May 8, 1921

~transcriber is not related and has no further information

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