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QUIVEY, WILLIAM W.; Pierce

          B: 19 July 1842 Charleston, Illinois D: 29 July 1928 Seattle, Washington

Burial: Mitchell, Nebraska

          Iowa 12th Infantry Company C - Private

          Enlistment Date: 24 September 1861 Douglass, Iowa

          Discharged Date: 3 January 1864

          Sources: 1890 Veterans Census

                   1893 Nebraska Veterans Census

                   Sons of Union Veterans Database

 

Pierce County Call; Pierce, Nebraska; 9 August 1928; Page 1

 

A Former Veteran of Pierce Passes Away

 

Wm. W. Quivey Answers Last Roll Call at His Home in Tacoma, Washington

 

Last Saturday The Call received a letter containing the news of the death of Wm. W. Quivey, a former resident of Pierce. The letter containing the sad news came from his son, Prof. L. A. Quivey, of Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Quivey passed away at Tacoma, Washington, on Sunday, July 29, in the eighty-sixth year of his life.

 

Mr. Quivey will be remembered by the people of Pierce and northeast Nebraska where for a score or more years he was prominent as a citizen and lawyer. He came to Pierce county in 1886 from Humbolt, Iowa, and engaged in the practice of law. In this he was very successful and at once took a leading position in the legal fraternity. He was a veteran of the civil war, seeing active service with Gen. Grant in the Mississippi campaign. He carried a rebel bullet in his right knee received in the assault of the Union forces on Fort Donelson, Kentucky. He took an active part in the Grand Army of the Republic, and through his efforts many of the old veterans and widows of the Civil War secured deserved recognition from the government.

 

He was an ardent Republican and was honored many times by his party and the people of this county.

 

He was also active in Masonic circles, becoming a member of Evergreen Lodge at Pierce in November, 1886, a few months after the masons of Pierce were granted a charter. He was honored by the lodge in June 1896, by being elected to the position of Worshipful Master, and served in that capacity for a number of years.  Deceased removed from Pierce in 1912 locating in Mitchell, Nebr., and here he was also successful with the practice of his chosen profession as well as in real estate and other investments.

 

William W. Quivey, died in the Cushman Veterans’ Hospital at Tacoma, Washington, at 6 p.m., Sunday, July 29, 1928. He was eighty-six years sold July 19th. He had been ill for seven months with a broken down heart. He was born in Coles county, Ill., July 19, 1842.

 

Short services were held in Seattle at 4:30 p.m., August 1st. The body was taken to Mitchell, Nebraska, and buried beside his wife, Sunday, August 5th, with Masonic honors.

 

He had quit the practice of law nearly six years ago owing to a practical loss of sight, and had been living with his daughter, Mrs. J. R. Ummel.

 

Of the three children, Grace, who was Mrs. C. F. Montross, was killed in an automobile accident in 1922; Zoe, Mrs. J. R. Ummel, is living at 4307 Corliss Avenue, Seattle, Washington, where her husband is office manager for the U. S. Alaska railroad; L. A. Quivey, his son, is a professor at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

 

His wife died in 1913 at Mitchell, Nebraska.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Ummel accompanied the body to Mitchell.