Republic County KS Archives Photo Tombstone.....Slagle, Absolom 
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Diane Sheridan djsheri@aol.com January 24, 2007, 6:07 pm

Cemetery:           White Rock Cemetery
Name:               Absolom Slagle

Date Of Photograph: April 1994
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Republic City News, Republic City, Kansas, "White Rock Jottings," 4 May 1888, 
p. 4. col. 3.  "A soldier of 1812 died at this place April 21, 1888.  ABSOLEM 
SLAGLE by name, age 94 years.  The town buried him.  The Grand Army Post did 
not turn out for the very good reason that it is the deadest of the two.  One 
has some show for resurrection, the other none."

Additional Comments:
ABSOLOM SLAGLE, b. 1792-1798, NC, d. 21 April 1888, Republic Co. KS, raised in 
Southwest, VA & Sullivan Co., TN. Left for Missouri in the Fall of 1849, lived 
in Davis & Holt Cos., MO; then on to Monroe, Lucas, & Appanoose Cos., IA; to 
Republic Co., KS, by 1880.

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