Bassil Pursel (1879)

PURCELL, PURSEL

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/21/2007 at 20:58:35

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
September 25, 1879

Another old settler has passed away. Mr. Bassil Purcell died on Tuesday at 4 p.m. Mr. Purcell has been laying very low for some time and his death had been expected. He was eighty-five years old and has been identified with the interests of the county ever since the first settlement.
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Winterset Madisonian and Rock City Advertiser
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 7, 1880
Page 4, Column 2

REPORT OF COL. H. J. B. CUMMINGS-HISTORIAN
Read before the Soldier's Re-union, Friday, September 24, 1880

In memory of:

To this list should be added one more. He was not a soldier in the war of the rebellion, but he was engaged in an earlier war--that of 1812. I mean good old uncle Basil Pursel. Basil Pursel was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 20th of April, 1796. When quite young his parents moved to Ross county, Ohio.

At the age of 16 he was employed by the government to transport provisions to the army. In the year 1823 he moved to Montgomery county, Indiana, and in September, 1859 he transferred his residence to Madison county, Iowa.

He died September 23d, 1879, in his 84th year. His wife and several children survived him.

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