Lake county, IN, Obituary

  From the Kankakee-Valley Review (Newspaper) December 13, 1902

   JOHN STOWELL, of Shelby, one of the old pioneers of Lake County, 
passed away on Wednesday.  For the past year he was a sufferer from 
stomach trouble. 
   John Stowell was born in Huron County, Ohio, June 13, 1826, and 
died on Wednesday, December 10, 1902, aged 76 years, 5 months, and 
27 days.  His parents moved to Lake County in 1840.
   He married Miss Rhena Shumway of Hebron, Indiana in 1850 and to 
this union six children were born.  Five are living.  
   He enlisted in the 73rd Indiana Regiment in May, 1861 and served 
three years and was engaged in the memorable raid and capture of Rome, 
Georgia, and was taken to Belle Isle where he was paroled.  For the 
past thirty-five years he has been a resident of Shelby.  At the time 
of his death he was employed as pumpman at Shelby for the Indiana, 
Illinois, & Iowa Railroad.  The funeral services were held in the 
Christian Church at Lowell on Friday.  Interment was in the Lowell 
Cemetery.

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