Joseph Rider 1842 - 1936

RIDER

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Date: 4/30/2014 at 00:30:25

Sioux City Journal
13 March 1936

DEATH CLAIMS CIVIL WAR VET
Joseph Rider, 93, Took Part in Sherman's
March to Sea

Joseph Rider, 93, a civil war veteran, died Thursday in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Minnie Moran, 2300 Silver street, of infirmities attendant on advanced age. He had been a resident of Sioux City seven years.

Mr. Rider was born in Stark county, 0., July 15, 1842. He enlisted in Company K, Fourteenth Illinois infantry in April, 1863, and served under Gen. Sherman, participating in the famous march to the sea.

After a final review at Washington, Mr. Rider's company was sent down the Ohio river, up the Mississippi river and then up the Missouri river to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. In July, 1865, Mr. Rider's company was sent out on the California trail. He was mustered out of the army in 1866 and was married that same year. In 1880 Mr. Rider moved to Iowa and settled on a farm near Boyden, later moving to Sheldon.

Surviving Mr. Rider are a son, C. M. Rider of Park Rapids, Minn., and three daughters, Mrs. Moran, Mrs. C. L. Voress of Sidney, 0., and Mrs. Ethel Freerer of Sheldon, and two brothers, Fred Rider of Kansas, Ill., and Riley Rider of Tama, Ill.

The body will be sent by the Westcott-Doughty-Chandler funeral home to Sheldon where funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Rev. J. J. Bushnell of Sioux City, will officiate and burial will be in the Sheldon cemetery.