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Allen J. Ticknor (1928)

EAGELSTON, GANDER, HARTMAN, LEE, TICKNOR

Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 4/10/2012 at 11:15:19

Winterset Madisonian
August 1928

Allen J. Ticknor, son of William and Anna Ticknor, was born February 16, 1843 in Timber Township, Peoria, Ill., and passed to his reward July 29, 1928 at the Seaside Hospital, Long Beach, Cal., after an illness of three weeks and two days from a stroke of paralysis at the age of 85 years, 5 months and 13 days, just seven weeks from the day of his twin brother's death from the same cause.

Uncle Allen was only 19 years of age when the call to battle between the North and the South was sounded. On August 13, 1862 he and his twin brother Albert enlisted in regiment 86 Illinois Infantry Company 1. The brothers went through the war side by side. They saw service in the principle battles of the war and marched with Sherman to the sea. They also marched with him in the Grand Review before Lincoln at Washington, D.C. and were mustered out June 6, 1865. Uncle Allen took an active interest in the G.A.R. being a member of the G.A.R. Post at Stuart. In his later years he enjoyed relating peculiar personal incidents of his army life and thrilled many a younger person as they listened to his stories.

On February 10, 1870, he was united in marriage to Harriett Ann Eagelston of Kickapoo Township, Peoria, Ill. One son Harry A. Ticknor came to bless this home, dying in infancy soon after his mother in the fall of 1874. On May 24, 1882 he was united in marriage to Maria E. Lee and to this union were born five children, Walter R. of Ghost Pine, Alberta, Canada, Charles E. of Casey, Iowa, Margaret Gander and May Hartman of Guthrie Center and Mina, who died at the age of two and one-half years. The eldest son Walter was unable to be present at the last service for his father. Besides these he leaves to mourn his going, his brother Andrew J. Ticknor, of Kansas City, Mo., the last of the family, 13 grandchildren, numerous other relatives and friends made by his congenial spirit and neighborliness as he traveled his long march to the battle of life.

In the fall of 1875 Mr. Ticknor came to Iowa, settling south of Stuart and remaining there but a short time. He then moved south of Casey where he lived until 1908 when he retired from farming, moving to Stuart. His home was broken up in June 1916 by the passing on of his beloved companion and since that time has made his home with his daughter Mrs. May Hartman, coming with them to Guthrie Center in 1924.
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Transcriber's note: Burial in the Oakwood Cemetery, Casey, Adair, Iowa.

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