BAIR, Charles Wesley
BURIAL OF C.W. BAIR
Services Conducted by Rev. C.F. McKown
Burial in Charge of Dunham Post G.A.R.
From the Daily of Monday - Funeral services over the remains of the late Charles W. Bair were held at the residence, six miles west of the city a 10 oclock Sunday morning. The Rev. C. F. McKown, pastor of the M.E. Church at Harristown, conducted the services at the house. During the service Rev. McKown read the following touching on the life of the deceased.
Charles Wesley Bair was born March 1, 1849. Married to Susan Walker, January 1, 1867. Born of this union 12 children, 11 of whom still survive, one John, having departed this life August 19, 1897. The rest of the children living are Mrs Ella Wray, Frank, Willis, Samuel, Ira, Wis___, Luther, Cora, Emma, Perry and Ida Bair. Mr. Bair departed this life December 17, 1897 aged 55 years, nine months and 16 days.
He was a member of Dunham Post No 141 G. A. R. and served three years during the was in the 106th Illinois Infantry. He was a good citizen and a friendly neighbor and a kind husband and father. After an illness of many weeks he died in peace. A number of members of Dunham Post attended the funeral going out in a sled. The Post furnished the pallbearers and preformed the G.A.R. burial service at the grave. The burial was in the Wyckles cemetery, four mile west of the city. The members of Dunham Post in attendance were Commander W. F. Calhoun, Tom Postwell, acting chaplain, I. N. Martin Sr., George V. Loring, W. C. Martin, Peter Hoffman, R. H. Johnson, D. B. Laud__nad and Florence McCarty.
Decatur Weekly Republican, Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, 23 Dec 1897, pg. 7
Note: Wyckles Cemetery AKA Sharon Cemetery
Charles is my great great grandfather. The year of birth in the article is wrong and the article gives the correct age of when he died. It should say 1842, not 1849; 1849 would have made him 48 when he died, not 55.
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