Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: John STOWELL ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Friendship Reporter, Thursday, September 8, 1921, Page 1 John STOWELL, pioneer citizen and Civil War veteran, died in Kilbourn August 30, aged 87 years. He had retained all of his faculties in a remarkable degree, almost to the very last, though he had been growing feeble for several months. John D. STOWELL was born in Windsor, Vermont, and came with his parents to Adams county in 1849, his father, Jason STOWELL, being the first postmaster. He erected a primitive dwelling on the Briggsville Road, near the present farm of Harrison MYLREA. New Year's Day, 1854, in a log cabin in old Newport, one of two or three houses in the space of two miles, Mr. STOWELL and Mary WOODWORTH were married, the marriage rites being pronounced by Joseph BAILEY, founder of the Village of Newport, and later a famous general in the Civil war. Among the wedding were men who later attained fame in the state and nation, or became founders of the village of Kilbourn. Mr. STOWELL enlisted February 10, 1865 in Company A, 49th Wisconsin, serving 9 months in the Civil war. After the war he bought a farm in Big Spring where he spent about 25 years, a frugal, industrious, prosperous farmer, an ideal citizen. Mr. STOWELL leaves his aged widow, now totally blind, one son, John Franklin STOWELL of Spokane, Washington; two daughters, Mrs. Ella Belle HEBERLEIN and Mrs. Edith Mary CLENDANEIL, of Kilbourn, eight grandsons, two granddaughters and eight great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the home of his daughter, Mrs. HEBERLEIN, Thursday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. E. L. Grau. The G. A. R. ritual service was held at the grave. ---Kilbourn Events