PIERCE COUNTY NEBRASKA CIVIL WAR DATABASE - G

 

 

GABLE, URIAH M.; Plainview

          B: 6 April 1841 Ohio D: 19 November 1906 Puyallup, Washington

          Iowa 11th Infantry Company H

          Enlistment Date: 29 September 1864 Fort Dodge, Iowa

          Mustered Out:  2 June 1865 Washington, DC

          Sources: 1890 Veterans Census (Antelope County)

1893 Nebraska Veterans Census

 

 

GARDNER, JULIUS; Plainview

          Sources: 1893 Nebraska Veterans Census

 

 

GATES, CHARLES; Pierce

B: 8 January 1839 Gallia County, Ohio D: 17 January 1926 Burial: Prospect

View; Pierce

          Ohio 33rd Infantry Company F – Sergeant

          Enlistment Date:  20 September 1861

          Mustered Out: 10 October 1864

Sources: 1890 Veterans Census

                   1883 Pensioner (gun shot wound hand)

                   Cemetery Record

                   Sons of Union Veterans Database

 

          Pierce County Call; Pierce, Nebraska; 21 January 1926

 

Former County Official Died Sunday

 

Chas. Gates was a Soldier of the Civil War and County Superintendent Ten Years.

 

Chas. Gates, a former old settler of Pierce, County Superintendent and postmaster at Pierce, died Sunday evening at 10:30 o’clock at the home of his sister, Mrs. Irene McDonald.

 

Mr. Gates had been in poor health for several weeks past, and his advanced age was against him and while there were days he felt much better, his strength gradually failed.

 

Charles Gates was born in Gallia county, Ohio, near Galpolis, Ohio, the son of Merrick Gates and Catherine Odell Gates in the year 1839, and was at the date of his death aged eighty-seven years and nine days.

 

He was educated in the common schools of Gallia county and at the Galpolis Academy at Galpolis. He left school at the outbreak of the Civil War and enlisted in the 3rd regiment of Ohio Volunteers, with which regiment he served his country faithfully and well until the close of the war. He served during the war under Generals Scott and U. S. Grant and was present at the battles of Gettysburg, Antietam and the battle of the Wilderness and was with Grant at the tie of the surrender of General Lee. After the Grand Review in Washington D. C., he returned to his home in Ohio and followed the occupation of teaching school in the common schools of Gallia county, Ohio, later teaching in the states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois and Nebraska.

 

In 1880 he removed from the state of Illinois to Pierce county, Nebraska, the direct cause of his moving being the purchase of the now Duff brothers ranch just north of Pierce. The first year of his residence in Pierce county he taught school in addition to his ranching operations. In the year 1881 he was elected and qualified for the office of County Superintendent of Pierce county, which office he held until the year 1891.

 

In the early spring of 1892 he was appointed postmaster in the place of J. B. Sharot who had resigned. From that time until the summer of 1893 he served in that office. His report to the post office department was the means of raising the Pierce post office from a fourth to third class office. From that time until the date of his death he engaged in various enterprises among those which were merchant, stock buying and selling, and farming until his retirement from active work since which time he has made hi home with his sister, Mrs. Irene McDonald, at Pierce, Nebraska.

 

Chas. Gates during his lifetime was a man of the highest character, honoring the keeping of his given word as his religion. His religion, which was foremost in his mind at all times, he lived and preached, rather by his action and his relations with his fellow men than by words. He believed sincerely in the Supreme God and the immortality of man and held it to be the deceit and hypocracy (sic) were the lowest orders to man might descend. That if he followed his God, treated his fellow men in a fair and clean manner, and kept his physical house clean and in order that he would be in the end prepared to meet his Master without fear, and with confidence in the result and that when he left this earthly world that he would do so, firm in the knowledge that by reason of his occupancy of this world that it was in some manner bettered thereby. He believed and lived the creed:

 

“So live, that when thy summons comes to join; The innumerable caravan, which moves; To that mysterious realm, where each shall take; His chamber in the silent halls of death; Thou go no like the quarry—slave at night; Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed; By an unfaltering trust, approach they grave; Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch; About him and lies down to pleasant dreams.”

 

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist church at two o’clock conducted by the pastor, Rev. R. F. Farley, who paid a fitting tribute to the life of the deceased as an old soldier, educator and Mason.

 

The Pierce male quartet rendered three selections. Miss Florence Leamy presided at the piano.

 

At the close of the services the remains were taken to Prospect View cemetery for burial. Here the beautiritualistic (sic) burial services of Evergreen Lodge A.F. & A.M. were held, with D. J. Malone as Worshipful Master in charge. At the conclusion of the same, Buglar (sic) C. H. Chilvers sounded “taps.”

 

 

GLAZE, ISAAC KELLER; Pierce

B: 11 April 1837 Peoria County, Illinois D: 14 September 1914 Pierce,

Nebraska Burial: Prospect View, Pierce

          Illinois 86th Infantry Company C - Private

          Enlistment Date:  12 August 1862 Halleck, Illinois

          Mustered Out:  6 June 1865 Washington, DC

          Sources: 1890 Veterans Census

                   1893 Nebraska Veterans Census

                   Cemetery Record

                   Sons of Union Veterans Database

 

Pierce County Call; Pierce, Nebraska; 17 September 1914; Page 1

 

Answers the Last Roll Call

 

Isaac Glaze, a veteran of the Civil War, and one of the oldest pioneers of this city, passed away Monday evening, the 14th inst. Deceased was taken ill about a week previous to his death, his demise being caused by a general break down due to old age. He was man of exceptionally strong constitution and it is said had never had occasion to need the services of a physician in the recollection of his family during his long life.

 

Isaac Keller Glaze was born April 11, 1837, in Peoria county, Illinois, and at the date of his death was 77 years, 5 months and 3 days old. In the year 1857 he was united in marriage to Minerva Baggs. Five years later, upon the breaking out of the Civil War, he enlisted in an Illinois regiment and served three years, being discharged at the close of the war, in 1865. He took part in fifteen battles, some of them being the most decisive engagements in the entire war. Among these were Perryville, Chickamagua (sic), Reseca, Buzzard’s Roost, Rome, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Johnstown, Averysboro and Bentonville, North Carolina. He took part in Sherman’s famous march to the sea and also the march north through the Carolinas. In 1882 he and family moved to Pierce where he has resided until a few years ago when he and his wife moved to Van Tassel and filed on a homestead. After proving up on the same they returned to Pierce and have resided here ever since. Mr. Glaze has the distinction of being appointed to the first rural mail route established out of Pierce. This position he held for many years. Deceased is survived by wife, three daughters and one son, viz: Mrs. Alice Walden, Amboy, Ill., Mrs. Emma Moore, of Van Tassel, Wyo., Elonzo of Pierce, and Mrs. Cora Amarine, of Omaha, all of whom were present at the funeral services.  Fourteen grandchildren and one great grand child are living. A son, Elmer, died in 1875, and a daughter, Estella, in 1902.

 

Funeral services were held in the M. E. church Wednesday afternoon, Rev. J. B. Burkhardt, of the Congregational church, preaching the sermon and being assisted by Rev. A. G. Brande. A quartet consisting of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Brande, Mrs. George Drebert and C. B. Brande, with Mrs. Edith Ulrich as accompanist, furnishing appropriate music. The pall bearers were made up of sons of veterans and comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic attended in a body. Interment was made in Prospect View cemetery.

 

 

GLEASON, FRANK H.; Pierce

          B: 1840 Massachusetts d: 24 September 1897 Sturbridge, Massachusetts

          Massachusetts 51st Infantry Company F

          Enlistment Date:  08 September 1862 Sturbridge, Massachusetts

          Mustered Out: 27 July 1863 Worcester, Massachusetts

          Sources: 1890 Veterans Census

 

Pierce County Call; Pierce, Nebraska; 24 September 1897

 

Fred Gleason returned last night from Fishdale, Mass. He reports his father’s condition as no better.

 

Pierce County Call; Pierce, Nebraska; 1 October 1897

 

Fred Gleason received word the first of this week of the death of his father at Sturbridge, Mass. Mr. Gleason was well and favorably known in Pierce county, being a resident here some years ago. He also was elected and served two years as county Judge of this county. If he had lived until January eh was have been 53 years old. He served in Co. I, 61st Mass. Inft., being promoted to Lieutenant of his company. His death occurred on Friday Sept. 24th, funeral services being held on Monday.

 

 

GOFF, SAMUEL ANDREW; Pierce

B: July 1831Washington County, Virginia D: 31 March 1907 Osmond,

Nebraska Burial: Prospect View, Pierce

          Confederacy

          Virginia 63rd Infantry (McMahon’s) Company K – Private

          Enlistment Date: 1 April 1862 Smyth County, Virginia

          Detailed: 22 August 1862 (Detailed as ambulance driver)

Absent, without leave on 28 August 1863
POW: 15 March 1864 at Magoffin Co, Kentucky
Confined: 19 March 1864 at Louisville, Kentucky
Oath Allegiance: 15 April 1864 at Louisville, Kentucky (Claimed to be conscript and deserted.)

          Sources:  Cemetery Record

                   Sons of Union Veterans Database

                   Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database

 

Pierce County Call; Pierce, Nebraska; 4 April 1907; Page 1

 

Obituary

 

S. A. Goff, father of George and John Goff, died at the home of the latter at Osmond, Sunday evening at 7 o’clock, of pneumonia.

 

Samuel Andrew Goff was born in Washington county, Virginia, July 1831, and would have been 76 years old had he lived until July next. In the sixties he left his native state and resided in Kentucky, Tennessee and other states, finally located in Illinois, where he resided until three years ago when he returned to his native state again. Two years ago G. W. Goff paid a visit to Virginia and turning was accompanied by his father, who has made his home ever since in Pierce county with his two boys, the greater portion being with his son, John, at Osmond.

 

Deceased even in old age was active and strong and was blessed with a wonderful constitution. He found great pleasure in helping about the place and looking after the stock and important duties of the farm. He had never known a sick day until six days before his death, when a bad cold developed into pneumonia and brought his long and useful life to a close. Deceased is survived by two sons and two daughters, the later living in Virginia.

 

The remains were brought to this place Tuesday afternoon where funeral services were held in the Congregational church, by pastor, Rev. Dains, being assisted by Rev. Rogers of the Osmond Presbyterian church. Interment was made in Prospect View cemetery. Deceased was a believer in the Christian faith and had often expressed himself to be at Peace with God and ready and willing to depart and be at rest with Him.

 

 

GRIFFITH, JOSEPH L.; Pierce

          Sources:  1883 Pensioner (chronic diarrhea)

 

 

GROSS, JOSEPH D.; Plainview 

          B: 22 November 1844 D: 6 January 1912 Burial: Memorial Cemetery;

Plainview, Nebraska

          Wisconsin 46th Infantry Company A – Private

          Sources: Sons of Union Veterans Database