Henry Curtis McIntosh (1844-1918)

MCINTOSH, CROSS, HEMSTOCK, DONNELL, BRYAN, MILLER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/25/2016 at 20:39:56

From Nevada Representative January 10, 1918 (front page)

NEVADA PIONEER DIES IN WEST

HENRY CURTIS McINTOSH PASSED AWAY TUESDAY AT SAN DIEGO. WAS CIVIL WAR VETERAN

In the death of H. C. McIntosh, which unexpected and unwelcomed event occurred at San Diego, California early Tuesday morning Jan. 8, 1918, a worthy resent Nevada citizen has passed from the shores of time and another honored veteran of the civil war received his final discharge. Mr. McIntosh was born Oct. 5th, 1844 at Onego, N. Y. He came with his parent to Illinois when a young child and grew to young manhood in that state. At the age of eighteen or thereabout he enlisted in the Union army as a member of Company G 2nd Ill. Light Artillery and served three years or more. His battery did service in the famous Red River Expedition under General Banks and A. J. Smith and at the capture of Fort Blakely at Mobile. The army corps, the Thirteenth to which his artillery organization was attached was in many other movements and engagements and did good service in bringing the war to a successful close.

Soon after the surrender of the forces under Lee and Johnson and the mustering out of the National Armies. Mr. McIntosh returned to his home and Nov. 8, 1867 was married to Mary Jane Cross, at Rockford, Illinois. Two years later they came to Iowa and in Story county. They located on a farm in the vicinity of Cambridge at first, and some six years later moved to Nevada, where Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh and their growing family continued to reside for thirty-seven years and until the death of Mrs. McIntosh in Dec. 1914. Since that date his home has been with his children or other near relatives. The past two or three winters he has spent in southern California. At the time of his death his age was a little past seventy-three. The near surviving family relatives are his present wife to whom he was married a little over a year ago, two sons, R. H. McIntosh, Nevada and W. R. of Goodthunder, Minn., two daughters, Mrs. Clara Hemstock, Clinton, and Mrs. Murrel Donnell of Kansas City, Mo.; one brother, Andrew in the Old Soldiers Home, Marshalltown; and two sisters, Mrs. Ellen Bryan, San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Hattie Miller, Perry, Iowa. The burial will be at San Diego, California, his home at the time of his death.

Mr. McIntosh was an efficient soldier while in the service, a charter member of the Nevada G.A.R. Post, in business matters a square dealer, as a neighbor kindly disposed and in all respects a good all round citizen. The knowledge of his demise occasions much regret to his many Nevada friends by whom he will be long and kindly remembered.