Albert John Ticknor (1928)

TICHNOR, TICKNOR, HOUGHTALING, NELSON, RISER

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 12/5/2005 at 16:55:52

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
June 14, 1928

Death of A. J. Tichnor

Earlham, June 13. Special - A. J. Ticknor, 85 years old, a Civil war veteran, died at eight o'clock Sunday night at his home after a short illness.

At the age of nineteen, he, with his twin brother, Allen, enlisted with the 86th Infantry Co. I, of Illinois where they marched together until the closing of the war. He was in several engagements and was with Sherman in his famous march to the sea. At the close of the war he returned to his home and on December 20, 1871, was united in marriage to Helen Houghtaling, at Wyoming, Illinois. He came west traveling in a covered wagon, to the prairies of Adair county, south of Stuart, where they lived for twenty-one years, later moving to a farm in Dallas county, and then to their present home in Earlham. Besides his wife he leaves to mourn Willis G. of Omaha, Nebraska; Anna M. Nelson of Reasnor; Thomas H. of Mound City, South Dakota, and Mabel Riser, of Earlham, his children; also two brothers, Allen of Guthrie Center, and Andrew of Kansas.

Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at ten o'clock at the Methodist church, with the Rev. W. H. Beers officiating, assisted by Rev. Peter Bock. Interment in the Earlham cemetery.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
June 21, 1928

Albert John Ticknor was born near Peoria, Ill., Feb. 16, 1843, and departed this life just at the close of the Sabbath day June 10, 1928, being 85 years, 3 months and 26 years. Earlham Cem.

At the age of 19 he with his twin brother enlisted in 86th Infantry, Co. 1 of Illinois, where they marched together until the close of the war. He was in several engagements and was with Sherman in his famous march to the sea. At the close of the war he returned to his home and was married to Helen Haughtaling at Wyoming, Ill.

They came to the west traveling in a covered wagon to the prairies of Adair County south of Stuart, where they lived 20 years, later moving to a farm in Dallas County and to their present home in Earlham. On Dec. 20, 1921, they celebrated their Golden Wedding and for nearly seven years more were privileged to walk life's pathway together, sharing each other's sorrows and joys. (To this union were born eight children, four dying in infancy. Those surviving are Willis G. of Omaha, Iowa, Thomas H. of Mound City, S.D., and Mabel Riser of Earlham, who with the loving mother, eleven grandchildren, and one great grandchild, two brothers, Allen his twin, of Guthrie Center, Andrew of Kansas City, and other relatives and friends are left to mourn his going.

In early life he accepted Christ as his Savior, united with the Baptist Church of which he remained a member until his death. He was a member of the I.O.O.F. of Stuart and of the Grand Army of the Republic of Dexter, Iowa.

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