ALBERT GOLTRY                           GRAVESTONE PHOTO                      

Biographical Sketch

  Albert Goltry was born March 23, 1841, in Jennings county, Indiana and died June 19, 1939 in Chanute, Kansas.  His mother was left a widow with five children when Albert was 9 years old.  In 1856, after his mother’s death, Albert Goltry, then a boy of 15 years, accompanied a friend to Hardin County, Iowa.  He stayed there only a short time, going then to Story County, Iowa 25 miles north of Des Moines, where he engaged in farm work until 1867.  Leaving Iowa, he went to Clark County, Missouri, locating at Gregory’s Landing where he was employed chopping cord wood for steamboats.

  When 17 years old, he made a trip on the Missouri river aboard a long raft to St. Louis.

  Albert enlisted into the Union army on April 17, 1861.  He was 20 years old when he enlisted.

  Mr. Goltry retired from military service in late 1861 to engage in farm work, but military life called him again in August 1862, when he reenlisted in Company B, 82nd Indiana Infantry.  For two years he served as an orderly sergeant.

  In May 1864, Mr. Goltry was among the 100,000 troopers leaving Chattanooga, Tennessee, with General W. T. Sherman on his march to the sea.  He was on the northward march from Savannah, GA. with Sherman when the Confederates surrendered.

  With the war ended the young soldier was mustered out with the troops from Washington D. C. going from there to Indianapolis to leave their muskets and receive their discharge from the army June 28, 1865.

  Albert Goltry was married July 20, 1865, to Oella Hamilton at Kentland, Indiana, and the young couple took up farming on 160 acres of land, which Mr. Goltry had purchased in that locality.

  The Goltrys sold their farm land in Indiana and came to Kansas in August 1876, settling on 80 acres of land six miles east of Chanute, Kansas in 1877.

  Mr. Goltry was one of the early day doctors of Chanute, having practiced in partnership with George H. Brown.  Prior to coming to Chanute, Mr. Goltry had prepared himself for his profession in careful study under an old French doctor at Kentland, Indiana.  He also attended lecture courses at the Cincinnati, Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio.

  Retiring from the practice of medicine, he spent the next 21 years of his life, working in the fruit and shrubbery on his farm east of town.  He had 15 acres of his land planted to trees and shrubs.

  In 1902 Mr. Goltry retired from farming and he and his wife moved to Chanute.  Mrs. Goltry died September 15, 1933.

  At the time of his death he was survived by his children; Mrs. Grace Smith and Mrs. Florence Rathbun, of Chanute; W. E. Goltry, of Tulsa and Ralph Goltry, of Phoenix, Arizona.

  Besides his four children, Mr. Goltry was survived by five grandchildren; Don E. Barbee, of Los Angeles; Travis Goltry, of Kansas City; Mrs. George Gibson, of Chanute; Mrs. Harry Coleman of Iola, Kansas and E. Dana Goltry of Chanute and a great-grandchild, Donna Lea Coleman.