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Thomas Jefferson Abel
b. February 13, 1837
Canada
d. October 26, 1925
Decatur, Macon County, Illinois
buried: October 26, 1925
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FATHER
Herman Abel
(1805-1876)
MOTHER
Sarah A. Robinson
(1809-1903)
MARRIED
Zidania Virginia "Dana" Locke
(1841-1875)
May 4, 1865
Macon County, Illinois
Susan H. Sine
(1850-1915)
October 11, 1877
Decatur, Macon County, Illinois
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CHILDREN
with Dana
Marian Virginia "Mamie" (nee-Abel) Wait
(1866-1951)
Louis Herman Abel
(1868-1937)
Clara Locke Abel
(1871-1951)
with Susan
Jean Carlos Abel
(1878-1959)
Florence Edith (nee-Abel) Coughlin
(1881-1969)
Celeste B. (nee-Abel) Turner
(1883-?)
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NOTE:
Thomas Jefferson Abel,
fought in the
CIVIL WAR
MAJOR TR. A. 4 IOWA CAV.
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Left:
Captain Thomas Jefferson Abel
Right:
Lieutenant William O. Kretzinger
Military
Thomas Abel enlisted as a private in Company A, 4th Iowa Cavalry on September 9, 1861,
at Mt.
Pleasant, Iowa, and was assigned to General Samuel Curtis as an orderly and clerk.
He was
discharged from the 4th Iowa by General Scofield on August 11, 1863,
to accept a commission as a
captain in the 56th U. S. Colored Infantry.
Abel mustered into the 56th U. S. Colored Infantry as captain of Company B on August 12, 1863,
at
St. Louis, Missouri. On June 16, 1865, he was assigned duties as provost marshal for
the
Department of Arkansas. On December 4, 1865, he was transferred to Company I, and
later
detached to the Freedmen's Bureau, Department of Arkansas. Promoted to Brevet Major on 13
Mar 1865.
He was mustered out of service on November 5, 1866, at Little Rock, Arkansas.
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ABLE & LOCKE
Carpets, Wallpaper & Curtains
Thomas J.
Abel
&
James Richard Locke
'There was some disputing in the prohibition convention at Pittsburg,
but there is no disputing the fact that ABEL & LOCKE sell carpets, wallpaper and
curtain
goods for less money than any other house in the city.'
'Gold, gold, gold, though hard to get
and slippery to hold,
is just the one thing needful to get your house decorated
in the very
best manner by ABEL & LOCKE. You will be astonished to find
how little is required to get the
necessary decorations to make your home beautiful.'
'The rush of the wind in a cyclone is one
thing and the rush of the people to ABEL & LOCKE's
to buy carpets, wallpaper, etc., is another.
The first is destruction, the second is beneficial.
All who buy of ABEL & LOCKE get full value of
their money, make home more pleasant,
and so add to the happiness of life.'
There are kicking
democrats, independent republicians who kick, and kicking prohibitionists,
but the city has yet
failed to show a single individual who kicks on account of the purchases he made of
ABEL & LOCKE
in the line of carpets, wallpaper, etc.'
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The Decatur Herald
(Decatur, Illinois)
27 October 1925 * Page 3
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