Obituary of Captain Peter GRACE, Crawford County, Illinois

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CAPTAIN PETER GRACE

Captain Peter Grace died at his home in Robinson at 8:20 o'clock
a.m. on March 27th, 1914. The Captain was born March 1845, in
Ireland and at the age of three, he came to this country. He
enlisted in Company E of the 83rd Penn. Vol. in 1861, as a private
and received his honorable discharge in July 1865 as the Captain of
his Company.

He participated in all the battles which his regiment was engaged in
during the four years of enlistment, and graduallly was advanced
from private to Sergeant and on up to the Captiancy of his Company
for valor and bravery shown in the many battles fought by his
regiment.

In 1894 Congress by special act, awarded him a Medal of Honor for
his valor and bravery in the battle of the Wilderness, which
occurred May 5th, 1864. After the close of the war he went to
Pitthole Vanango Co. Penn., where he was engaged in the oil
business, and has since followed this line of work. He was the most
wonderful man in the oil business that ever existed. He had the
reputation of discovering more new oil fields, and expending more
money for the operation of the same, than any other oil man in the
United States. His associates, at one time in the oil business were
such men as Rockerfellow Archibald, Jennings Brothers and the last
John McKune and Joseph Seep. He also was president and organized the
Kenewa Oil Company of West Virginia. Of late years he has been
engaged in the oil business himself, and was successsful to the time
of his death.

A funeral service, conducted by Rev. J. D. Shaddrick pastor of the
M.E. Church was held at the late residence Saturday afternoon and
was largely attended. Capt. Grace had often expressed the desire
that when the end came for him that his remains should find
sepulture at the Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Arrangements were immediately made following his death to comply
with the request, and Sunday noon the remains were shipped there for
interment, being escorted to the train by G.A.R. and comrades of
this city, and a large concourse of citizens, forming probably the
largest funeral cortege ever witnessed in Robinson. Now the remains
of the brave soldier, the good citizen, the man who loved his fellow
man, with morning, noon and night, with the blooming flowers, the
breeze of spring, the showers of rain, the heat of summer, and
winter's chilling blast rest where lay numbers of his brave comrades
who in the time of the Nation's trial went forth at their country's
call. It is fitting that the dust of such good and brave, patriotic
men should commingle until the call of the "sounding of the last
trumpet".

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