Friday, May 9, 2008

GENERAL A. G. McQUEEN - Obituary

McQueen, General A. G.

The East Liverpool Tribune

 

A. G. McQUEEN DEAD

Passed Away Tuesday at Home of Son in Chicago

 

     General A. G. McQueen, aged 75 years, died at 12 o'clock noon on Tuesday (Nov. 13, 1906) at the home of his son, Daniel A. McQueen, at Chicago.  The body will be brought to Wellsville on the 11 a.m. train.  The funeral services will be held from the Yellow Creek church at 11 a.m. Thursday, the Rev. W. J. Hutchinson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, officiating.

     The deceased was born on the McQueen farm, in Madison township.  He enlisted in the First Iowa cavalry, and served with distinction throughout the War of the Rebellion.  He is the last of ten children, and is survived by the one son with whom he had been making his home.  John F. and James W. McQueen, of Wellsville, are nephews of the late general.

 

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