Decatur County Journal

December l5, l906

GEORGE ERASTUS GRAHAM died at his home in Hamilton Township, Decatur

County, Iowa, December 8, l906, at the age of 60 years, 5 months and 3

days, having been born in Jo Davies County, Illinois, July 5, l846.

He lived on a farm in the county of his birth until his enlistment in

the Northern Army, Company B 45th, Illinois Infantry. He served in the

Atlanta Campaign and was with Sherman on his famous march to the sea,

and took part in the grand review at Washington. He was honorably

discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, and mustered out at Chicago.

With his father's family, he moved to Decatur County in l865 and soon

after located on the farm, on which, since that time he has made his

home. On November 29, l868, he married MISS MARGARET ELLEN NEWTON and

to them were born nine children, all of whom survive, and with their

mother were present at the bedside of the dying husband and father.

Of MR. GRAHAM's six sisters and three brothers, EPHRIAM, LUCINDA and

DORA preceded him to the great beyond.

MR. GRAHAM was a member of Grand Army Post No. 306, of Davis City and

Masonic Lodge No. l89, of Pleasanton. The ceremonial ritual of these

orders were observed at the burial. Members of the order from Leon and

Davis City being present with the Pleasanton Lodge. The funeral took

place from the Christian Union Church, Pleasanton, Iowa. The sermon was

by Elder Duncan Campbell, Rev. Henry Reed offering prayer. Interment in

the Hamilton Cemetery north of Pleasanton.

MR. GRAHAM was a man of the strictest business integrity, thoroughly

pure in life, and his character was beyond reproach, and as a

consequence he enjoyed the fullest respect and confidence of his large

circle of friends and acquaintances. The bereaved family have the

deepest sympathy of the community.

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