LOCKRIDGE, Joseph (1841-1922)

LOCKRIDGE

Posted By: Karon King (email)
Date: 9/26/2016 at 23:43:54

Joseph Lockridge
(Nov 9, 1841 - Dec 29, 1922)

Advocate Tribune, Indianola, Iowa, Thursday, Jan 11, 1923, p.1
Civil War Veteran Answers Last Call
Joseph Lockridge, Resident of Iowa for Sixty Years Passes on at Age of Eighty-one Years

Joseph Lockridge left his young wife and answered the call of his country, enlisting on August 19th, 1862, as a member of company H, 34th Iowa volunteer infantry. He served as private, went south to Mississippi and Arkansas, and was first under fire at the battle of Vicksburg, while later he participated in the engagement at Arkansas post, and subsequently in the siege of Vicksburg. He was also in the battles of Chickasaw Bluff, Fort Morgan and Fort Blakeley and served until the close of the war, being mustered out August 15th, 1865, at Houston, Texas, and later honorably discharged at Davenport. He was a brave and faithful soldier, never faltering in the performance of his duty.
Joseph Lockridge, the son of Mary Hall and James A. Lockridge, who was a Virginian, was born in Biami county, Indiana, November 9th, 1841 and died at Indianola, Iowa, December 29th, 1922, aged eighty-one years, one month and twenty days. When he was four years of age his mother died. Eleven years later, his father passed on; leaving the lad alone in the world. At the age of seventeen, he joined his uncle, Samuel Lockridge in Iowa. On June 23rd, 1861, Mr. Lockridge married Miss Mary F. Perkins, who came to Iowa from Illinois. They were the parents of six children; one having died in infancy: W. O., Ilo, Idaho; D. R., Prole, Iowa; Delana, the wife of Elmer Crow, of Prole; Ursula, the wife of William Kepley, Spring Hill; Nannie, the wife of L. Alexander, Prole, Iowa.
When the civil war broke out, Mr. Lockridge heard his country’s call, and enlisted August 19th, 1862, and served as a brave and faithful soldier through the war of the rebellion, having been discharged on August 15th, 1865. On February 12th, 1906, he was called upon to mourn the death of the wife of his youth. At Winterset, Iowa , January 9th, 1908, Mr. Lockridge was united in marriage to Mrs. M. E. Wallace of Carlisle, Iowa. They established a home at Spring Hill, where they have lived till shortly before his death, when they took rooms in Indianola, that he might be near the hospital. He is survived by his wife, five children, twenty-two grandchildren, and sixteen great grandchildren. When a young man, Mr. Lockridge joined the Evangelical church at Linn Grove. When the Christian church was organized at Spring Hill, he transferred his membership to that body, where it remained till his death. Funeral services were held in the Spring Hill Methodist Episcopal church, on Sunday, December the 31st at 1:30, conducted by Rev. Dr. William Christie Smith, a boyhood friend, assisted by the pastor, Rev. James Walls. Interment at Linn Grove.