Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Avey, George L. 1912
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Payette Enterprise 4-25-1912
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, April 25, 1912

DEATH OF GEORGE L. AVEY

George L. Avey, father of Dr. O. H. Avey, died at the residence of his son in 
Payette, Friday, April 19th, 1912, after a short illness from erysipelas. His 
condition for several days did not seem dangerous and the disease was 
apparently clearing away when an unexpected turn for the worse set in, against 
which his advanced age and weakened vitality were unable to resist. He died 
peacefully Friday evening.

George L. Avey was born in Maryland, March 12th , 1830. When a young man he 
moved to Logan, Ohio, where he met and married Mary E. Fox in 1854. Two sons 
and six daughters came to them who, with the aged wife and mother, are still 
living and reside in Southern California, this being the first death in the 
family covering a period of fifty-eight years.

Mr. Avey engaged in harness and saddlery business in Ohio, but responding to 
the call of Lincoln for volunteers to defend the Union, he left his shop and 
assisted in organizing Company H, 114th regiment, Ohio Volunteers and served 
as lieutenant till the close of the war. He served under Grant in the 
Department of the West at the siege of Vicksburg and was with the Union army 
in the memorable campaign which opened up the Mississippi to the fleets of the 
Union; an event which brought forth the words from Lincoln, "The Father of 
Waters now flows unvexed to the seas."

Returning to his business at the close of the war, he was soon compelled by 
failing health, the result of the hardships and privations of the service, to 
change his occupation and conserve his strength. He moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa, 
where his children grew to maturity, and later moved to California.

About twenty-seven years ago, as the result of injuries received in the army, 
his sight left him and although doomed to live the rest of his days in total 
darkness, he was cheerful and optimistic to the last. He took a keen and 
lively interest in the affairs of the country and the current events. The 
papers were read to him daily. He had an excellent memory an the loss of sight 
resulted in a remarkable development of the other faculties. Nature seemed to 
make an extraordinary effort at compensation. He was able to go about the 
streets on a brisk walk, guided unerringly by his keen sense of sound, his 
trusty cane with which he felt his way along the sidewalks, up steps and over 
obstructions; and that indefinable sense of direction which is possessed in 
greater or lesser degree by those who have been blind a long time.

After becoming blind, his son, Dr. O. H. Avey, took him to his comfortable 
home where he was given every care and kindness that a loving son could bestow 
upon his father. The mother, who is quite feeble, is with her other son, who 
is also a physician, at Redlands, Calif., and quite prominent in the politics 
of the Golden State.

Father Avey was a member of the Masonic fraternity. The funeral services was 
conducted by Rev. A. L. Howarth, Sunday afternoon at Wesley chapel and the 
body was laid to rest in Riverside cemetery. 

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