Napolean Austin (1842-1925)

AUSTIN, HADLEY, TEBBEN, WORTH, ALEXANDER, MCMEANS, KEELEY, HENCH, ELLIS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/3/2015 at 22:55:34

Jackson Sentinel, March 10, 1925

OBITUARY

Napolean E. Austin was born on July 4, 1842, in Perry Township, Jackson county, Iowa and passed away at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Tebben on March 4, 1925 at 12 o'clock. He was the son of Bushnell and Ruth Hadley Austin, his father being a native of the state of New York and his mother a native of the state of Ohio. His father came to Iowa in 1839 residing a time at Bellevue, where he was a minister of the Christian gospel in the service of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Austin resided on the ancestral homestead in Perry township until a few years ago and save for his service of a little more than four years in the Civil War of the United States, he pursued the vocation of farming. He was mustered into Company I, 12th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, January 27, 1862 and was veteranized January 5, 1864. He was wounded at Tupelo, Mississippi and was mustered out January 20, 1866. His brother, Marion Austin served under the same command with himself and was mustered out on the same date. His first company commander was First Lieutenant John J. Marks, who died at Momtgomery, Alabama, while a prisoner in the hands of the enemy; and the succeeding commander of the company was Alfred L. Palmer, who was circuit judge in Jackson county for a number of years. Of the reminisconces of the Civil War, he had a great store, and not the least interesting of these were those of his services while doing guard duty at the headquarters of General U. S. Grant, commanding the Army facing the Confederates around Vicksburg.

Mr. Austin never married. His long life was one of more or less affliction due to the wounds received around the face and eyes during the war. His brother Baxter Austin preceded him to the spirit world, having resided at Preston, Iowa; two sisters are left of this large family, Mrs. Kandace Worth of Chattanooga, Tennessee and Mrs. Anna Alexander of Davenport, Iowa, who was with him in his last illness.

The military funeral of Napolean Austin was held from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Tebben on Friday afternoon. Rev. A. E. Hanff preached the funeral service and the Duhme-Moeller Post No. 603 of the American Legion accorded military honors. Four Civil War comrades were present, R. F. McMeans, Thomas Hench, Frank Keeley and J. W. Ellis, all beyond the eighty year mark.

Napolean Austin grave
 

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