Grant-Marion-Owen County IN Archives Obituaries.....Hamilton, Aciel Augustus January 14, 1954 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ian Martin athelhampton@hotmail.com July 23, 2009, 5:19 pm Marion Indiana Chronicle-Tribune January 17, 1954 Aciel Augustus Hamilton,60, former Marion (Indiana) resident, died at 4pm, Thursday, January 14, in Clearwater, Florida, after suffering a heart attack. Mr. Hamilton left Marion many years ago to accept a position in the Indianapolis post office. The body was taken to 4925 W. 16th Street, Indianapolis where services will be conducted at 11am on Tuesday January 19, 1954. Survivors include his widow HAZEL, one daughter, Mary Louise Martin, San Diego, California; five brothers. Joseph C., Toledo, Ohio; Howard, Holly, Michigan; and James R., William E., and Robert E. , all of Marion; three sisters, Mrs. Leona Gartman, Warrenville, Illinois, and Mrs Russell Weaver and Mrs Ralph Landrum, Marion and two granddaughter. Additional Comments: Aciel was a Freemason. ACIEL WAS BORN IN MARION, Grant County, Indiana on October 6, 1893 in Marion, Grant County, Indiana to Clayson Hamilton and Myrtle Fear,of Minnesota (19 at the time of Aciel's birth). Aciel's birth record has no name but is registered on Grant Co. Births R21, Bk 4, P17, line 21 on entries. ----- Concerning his first wife Edith F. Kester: ------------------- EDITH HAMILTON Died On Sunday: Edith Kester Hamilton, age 34, wife of A.A. Hamilton, passed away at their Indianapolis home Sunday. Mrs Hamilton, before her marriage, taught in the Washington township schools and at the Grant County orphans' home and was a graduate of the Marion city schools and the Marion Normal College. The body will be brought to Marion today and will be taken to the Kester home, 1204 North Washington Street. The funeral service will be held at the Highland Avenue M.E. Church at 2 O'Clock, Wednesday afternoon. Her father, G.W. Kester, husband (Aciel Augustus Hamilton), grandfather, and one daughter, Mary Louise Hamilton, survive." Edith F. Kester was born on December 21, 1889, in Jasper County, Illinois to George W. Kester, a Jeweler residing in Marion, Indiana at the time of Edith's marriage to AA Hamilton. George W. Kester was born in Clark County, Ohio. Aciel Augustus Hamilton married Edith F. Kester on March 10, 1913 (date of signature on license) at Marion, Grant County, Indiana The Grant County Indiana marriage to Aciel Augustis Hamilton states that a Bertha V. Bradford of Grant County, Indiana was Edith Kester's mother but that she was deceased at the time of Edith's marriage to Aciel A. Hamilton. The 1900 US Census record Edith Kester living with her father George W. Kester,34, born June 1865 in Ohio, and his wife Dolly, 27, born January 1873, in Ohio. It appears that Bertha V. Bradford was either the biological mother or the stepmother. A.A. Hamilton is Aciel Augustus Hamilton born on October 6, 1893, in Marion, Grant Couunty, Indiana to Clayson F. Hamilton and Myrtle Fear. Edith F. Kester Hamilton was buried at the Estates of Serenity (Also known as: IOOF Cemetery, Marion IOOF Cemetery),1101 S. Lincoln Blvd., Marion, Grant County, Indiana Phone: (765) 664-3111 Edith's middle name MAY have been "FAYE". Her husband Aciel Augustus Hamilton, perished in Clearwater, Pinnellas County, Florida at 4PM Thursday January 14, 1954 from a heart attack. His body was taken to 4925 W. 16th Street, Indianapolis where services were held at 11AM on Tuesday January 19, 1954. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aciel second wife Faye PATRICK; 1890-1949; Eastern Star, is buried with him at Riverside Cemetery, Owen County, Indiana. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I could find no information Aciel third wife Hazel with a cursory search. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/grant/obits/h/hamilton88nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 4.3 Kb