JoDaviess County IL Archives Obituaries.....DeGear, Abraham January 14, 1911
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Bellevue Herald, Jan. 24, 1911
Bellevue Herald, Jan. 24, 1911

Abraham DeGear was born in Clay, Scioto County, Ohio, January 18, 1826, and died 
at his home in Hanover township, Illinois, January 14, 1911. He was the last of 
a family of sixteen children. He was married to Lucinda Robinson July 10, 1845; 
three children were born to them-Mary, John and Eliza. His family was taken from 
him by the cholera epidemic that swept the state of Ohio in 1850.

On January 24, 1852 he was married to Harriet Elizabeth Drane and removed to 
Stockton township, Illinois, on June 7, 1855 and removed from there to Hanover 
township in 1868. He was the father of 9 children by this union, five of whom 
survive, Mrs. Welcome Straitt, Habover twp., Mrs. Keeler Harris, Dubuque, John 
DeGear, Bellevue, Louisa and George at home. He is also survived by sixteen 
grandchildren and ten grandchildren.

The funeral services were conducted at the family home on Monday at 11:00, Rev. 
A. D. Klontz officiting. Interment in the Lost Mound cemetery. Six grandsons 
acted as pall bearers.

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