Abbott, Albert George

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Water Well Driller
• Reference Number: ABBO.A001
• _FGRAVE: 58073083
• Funeral: Forrest Ridge Church, Mount Erie, Wayne County, Illinois
• Military Service: Korean War, United States Army
• Military Service: World War II, Private First Class, 49th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division, United States Army

Notes:

Newspaper, The Olney Daily Mail:

Albert George Abbott, 60, died Monday, July 13, 1987, at his home in Clay City.

Services will be held at the Forrest Ridge Chruch with Rev. Havard Dasch presiding. Burial will be in Forrest Ridge Cemetery.

Mr. Abbott was born Sept. 9, 1926, in Richland County, the son of Emery Raymond and Ethel (Rodgers) Abbott. He married Clara Hille on Aug. 1, 1953, in Olney.

He was a self-employed water well driller and a Korean War U. S. Army veteran. He was a member of Forrest Ridge Church and VFW.

Survivors include his wife, Clara; three daughters, Mrs. Danny (Barbara) Hartleroad of Noble, Mrs. Danny (Ethel) Welty of Clay City and Mrs. Douglas (Violet) Brinkley of Waukomis, OK; two brothers, Lloyd Aabbott of Clay City and William Abbott of Elgin; two sisters, Mrs. William (Ruth) Calteux and Mrs. Ralph (Katie) Brown, both of Clay City; six grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Military Service:
Entered active service as a draftee on August 3, 1945 at Chicago, Illinois. Selected for the Field Artillery, completed basic training and qualified in the military occupational specialty of Guard Patrolman (522). Departed the U.S. on February 5, 1946 bound for the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations. Assigned to and served with the 49th Field Artillery Battalion engaged in the occupation of the Japanese homelands. Earned the WWII Victory Medal and the Army Of Occupation Medal (Japan). Honorably discharged as a Private First Class on January 30, 1947 at the Separation Center, Camp Beale, California.

This information has been posted on the National World War II Memorial's Registry of Remembrances website by Robert Medley Gatewood. It is entered here with his permission.

Source: http://www.wwiimemorial.com/Registry/plaque.aspx?honoreeID=2096555

His obituary says he was a Korean War U. S. Army veteran

Died:
Albert George Abbott, 60, died Monday, July 13, 1987, at his home in Clay City.

Buried:
Plot: row 19 site J

Albert married Hille, Clara B. on 1 Aug 1953 in Olney, Richland County, Illinois. Clara (daughter of Hille, William and Morris, Maude) was born on 25 Nov 1927 in Crystal City, Missouri; died on 20 Feb 1993 in Clay County, Illinois; was buried on 23 Feb 1993 in Forrest Ridge Cemetery, Mount Erie, Wayne County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Abbott, B.
2. Abbott, V.
3. Abbott, E.M.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Teamster
• Reference Number: ABBO.E001
• _FGRAVE: 24070609
• Funeral: Easley-Padgett Funeral Home, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois

Notes:

Raymond ‘Bob’ Abbott, 66. of Clay City, passed away at the Richland Memorial Hospital. Mr. Abbott had been a patient in the Burgin Nursing Homes in Olney for the past nine years.

Funeral services will be held in the Easley - Padgett Funeral Home
with Rev. Barney Meadows in charge. Burial will be at Clay City cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Mr. Abbott was born near Noble, son of the late George and Laura Taylor Abbott. He had moved to Clay City as a young man and engaged in teaming. Before his illness and retirement, he had been employed as a teamster by the Pure Oil Co.

He was preceded in death by his wife.

He is survived by three sons, Lloyd and Albert of Clay City, and William of Elgin; and two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Cailteaux of Clay City and Mrs. Katie Brown of St. Charles, IL. Two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Bryan of Olney and Mrs. Agnes Miller of Noble survive, as well as two half-brothers, George and Harold Abbott, both of Clay City. Two half-sisters, Mrs. Genelle Hance and Mrs. Lorena DeHart of Clay City also survive. Two step-brothers, Albert Wilson of Clay City and Harry Wilson of Olney also survive, as well as a stepsister, Mrs. Viola Williams of Clay City also survive. He also leaves eight grandchildren.

Taken from the Olney Daily Mail, Olney, IL, December 1968.

Contributor:
Barbara Bromm - tgram63@outlook.com

Birth:
near Noble, Richland County, Illinois

Emery married Rodgers, Ethel Eileene. Ethel (daughter of Rodgers, Charles Albert and Morgan, Ruth Kizarh) was born on 1 Aug 1903 in Illinois; died on 14 Oct 1953; was buried in Clay City Cemetery, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: RODG.E001
• _FGRAVE: 24070615

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer, Laborer
• Reference Number: ABBO.G003
• _FGRAVE: 24054179
• Funeral: Easley-Padgett Funeral Home, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois

George married Taylor, Laura M. on 11 Apr 1895 in Richland County, Illinois. Laura (daughter of Taylor, William H. and Behymer, Mary Ann) was born on 19 Mar 1877 in Illinois; died on 14 Feb 1907; was buried in Hanna Cemetery, Noble, Richland County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: TAYL.L001
• _FGRAVE: 25164464

Notes:

Laura's tombstone shows she was 23 years, 10 month, 26 days old when she died.

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• Reference Number: RODG.C001

Charles married Morgan, Ruth Kizarh on 23 Sep 1897 in Richland County, Illinois. Ruth was born on 14 Apr 1880; died on 13 Mar 1923; was buried in Shiloh Cemetery #02, Richland County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: MORG.R001

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Reference Number: ABBO.L003
• _FGRAVE: 25164487

Notes:

Louis C. "Louie" Abbott was the husband of Perlina (Taylor) Abbott, and the father of Charles K. Abbott.
- Joyce Nash-Wafford
Added: Apr. 4, 2008

Louis married Taylor, Perlina on 2 Mar 1859 in Richland County, Illinois. Perlina was born on 7 Jan 1835 in Indiana; died on 13 Nov 1881; was buried in Hanna Cemetery, Noble, Richland County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: TAYL.P001
• _FGRAVE: 25164468

Notes:

Perlina (Taylor) Abbott, was the wife of Louie Abbott, mother of Charles K. Abbott who was born June 1870.
- Joyce Nash-Wafford

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Reference Number: TAYL.W002
• Military Service: American Civil War,

William married Behymer, Mary Ann on 18 Apr 1861. Mary (daughter of Behymer, Nathaniel and Bunting, Sarah) was born on 7 Feb 1846 in Indiana; died on 27 Mar 1916 in Olney, Richland County, Illinois; was buried in Hanna Cemetery, Noble, Richland County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: BEHY.M001