Bottorff, Felix 1840-1904

BOTTORFF, TURNBULL, HOWE, HEATON

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Date: 7/21/2003 at 00:25:04

"PACKWOOD. Felix Bottorff, who has been a great sufferer from cancer of the stomach, died Nov. 8th. He was born in Indiana in 1840, came to Iowa in 1851, enlisted in the service of his country in 1864 and was a gallant soldier to the end of the war. In 1865 he was united in marriage with Miss Turnbull, who with one daughter and two sons survive him. The father, 89 years of age, and five brothers are also living. Deceased had resided on the farm where he died 38 years and was the oldest settler in his school district. Mr. B. was a kind and unassuming man. He will be sadly missed by neighbors and friends. Rev. W. T. Howe conducted the funeral services and interment was made in Blue Point Cemetery."
Fairfield Ledger
Nov. 16, 1904, 9-3.

"GLENDALE. Hiram Heaton and his sister Mary went to Packwood Wednesday, and while there learned of the death, that morning, of Felix Bottorff. Mr. B. was a member of Company E, Second Iowa Infantry, in the Civil War, through perhaps its most trying campaigns, but he never was absent from duty, never complained, never made an enemy in his company, and was among the most highly esteemed of its members. Through the exhausting and bloody campaign of Atlanta, Sherman's march to the sea and the hard campaign through the Carolinas he did his whole duty, and the citizens of Jefferson County will never have a nobler hero nor a more modest and unassuming man than Felix Bottorff to live among them. . . . ."
Fairfield Ledger
Nov. 16, 1904.

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