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Company H, 119th Illinois Infantry
Altoona Tribune, Thursday, September 6, 1917, Pg. 1
Volume XIV, Number 42

Death of John U.
Frankenberry.
John U. Frankenberry was born July 2nd, 1847, in the state of Illinois. At an early age he was an apprentice to a shoe cobbler, and learned the trade. He was a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting in Company H, 119th Illinois Infantry, January 5, 1864, and marched with Sherman’s Army to Meriden, Mississippi, was in many battles, and was honorably discharged at Spring Hill, Illinois, September 9, 1865. John U. Frankenberry was married to Huda Streets, April 24, 1870. To this union were born eight children: Fred, Will, Calvin, Allie, Frank, Lola, Irene, and Benny. Calvin and Allie died in infancy, and Frank at the age of 26 years, Mrs. Frankenberry, wife of the deceased, departed from this life, July 21st 1917. For the last seven years Mr. Frankenberry has been at the State Hospital at Osawatomie for treatment for mental lapse, caused by sunstroke that he received while in the army. He died at the hospital, September 2nd, 1917, from a stroke of apoplexy. He was aged 70 years and 2 months. Mr. Frankenberry was converted and joined the Christian church early in life, and was known for his Christian faith and integrity. Funeral services were hel Wednesday, September 5th, at 2:30 o’clock from the old home, conducted by Rev. J. R. Creamer, of the Methodist church, and the body was laid to rest in Hatler cemetery. The pall bearers were his comrades: G. O. Smith, F. L. Powell, A. Trichler, and F. Blaker.

Company B, 10th Illinois Cavalry

Company E, 27th Iowa Infantry
Altoona Journal, Friday, July 15, 1892, Pg. 2
Volume V, No. 31

A Pioneer.
Calvin Street died at his residence in Cedar township, Monday, July 4th, 1892, of paralysis, aged 66. His health had not been good for some years. Last spring he moved to Oklahoma but returned as he grew worse. Two strikes of paralysis brought him to the brink and death was expected. The funeral occurred from the residence Tuesday at 11 a. m. conducted by the Altoona lodge A. F. & A. M. Elder Thos. Miller preached a short and appropriate sermon and the remains were interred in the Hatler cemetery after the rites of the lodge. The deceased was also a member of the G. A. R. and the obsequies were attended and assisted in by members of that organization.
Mr. Street is survived by wife (his second) and ten children, six sons and four daughters, most of whom are grown.
Calvin Street was a native of Ohio, from whence he removed to Iowa. During the rebellion he did service for his country as a member of company E, 27th Iowa Infantry. He enlisted May 22, 1862, and was discharged June 7, 1862, and was discharged June 7, 1865. A year or more of that time he was confined as a prisoner of war at Cohaugah, Alabama.
He was a pioneer of Wilson county. In 1869 he settled in Cedar township on the farm of 160 acres on which he so long resided. Hie became well situated in this world’s goods, but erstwhile friends left him financially embrassed in his later years. However, he left his family the provision of $2,000 life insurance. In all his relations with his fellow men he was above reproach. All the old settlers know him and without exception say he was a good man and a generous neighbor.

Company F, 31st Iowa Infantry
Altoona Tribune, Thursday, February 13, 1919, Pg. 8
Volume XVI, Number 13

Death of Fred Blaker.
Fred Blaker, age 75 years, 6 months and nine days, died at his home, west of Altoona, Wednesday morning, February 12th, at 12:30 o’clock, and was conscious up to the very last. About eighteen months ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis, and while he has not been entirely helpless since that time, his condition was such that he got around little and gradually grew weaker. He grew suddenly worse last Sunday.
Funeral services will be held Friday, February 14th at the home, burial will be in the Hatler cemetery. Services will be conducted by the Rev. J. R. Creamer, of the Altoona M. E. church. Mr. Blaker leaves to mourn his death four children, Mrs. Simon Hudson, of Fredonia, George Blaker, of Altoona, Mrs. Dora Jones, of Thayer, and Mrs. Laura O’Neal, of Idaho Falls, Idaho. All of the children will be in attendance at the funeral with the exception of Mrs. O’Neal who will be unable to come in time on account of the great distance.
Mr. Blaker was one of the county’s best citizens. He joined the Christian church early in life. He was absolutely fair to all and his honorable deeds and generous manner won him the friendship of everyone with which he became acquainted and he had a wide acquaintance in the county. He was a member of the Altoona G. A. R. Post and attended regularly until his health prevented him from doing so. Mr. Blaker was a brave and loyal soldier and as a citizen his career has been marked by fidelity to duty.
Deceased was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, August 3, 1844. His parents were Chas. and Catherine Blaker. The family came to the United States in 1852 and settled in Scott county, Iowa, the father dying in 1858. The mother came to Wilson county, Kansas, in 1877 and died in this county in 1889 at the age of 78 years.
Fred Blaker passed his youth in Scott county, Iowa. In August, 1862, he entered the Union army from Jackson county, enlisting in Co. F, 31st Iowa Infantry. His regiment first saw service along the Mississippi river and later in Tennessee and Georgia. It took part in the attempt to capture Vicksburg in the winter of 1862-3 and was in the siege of that place the following summer and was in all the operations about Chattanooga, Look Out Mountain, Missionary Ridge, the Atlanta campaign and in the March to the sea in all of which Mr. Blaker shared its fortunes down to Savannah. There he received a gunshot wound in the right shoulder from which he lay in the hospital four months and thus missed the campaign in Carolina. He was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, and received his discharge at Davenport, Iowa, July 1865.
On the 3rd day of June, 1868, Mr. Blaker married Ellen Streets, of Jackson county, Iowa, a daughter of Calvin Streets, and in 1871 moved to Kansas and settled in Wilson county, where his father-in-law had settled two years before. In 1873 he bought the farm of 160 acres west of town where he has since lived. Mr. Blaker lost his wife in 1879. She left surviving her one son and three daughters.
In 1886 Mr. Blaker married Mrs. Anna Jones, of Wilson county. She died 17 years ago. No children were born to this union.

Company E, 2nd Iowa Infantry
The Altoona Tribune, Thursday, April 22, 1915, Pg. 8
Volume XII, Number 24

Obituary of
S. L. Chamberlain.
Sylvester L. Chamberlain was born November 11, 1845, in Lickin county, Ohio, and died at his home in Altoona, Kansas, on April 18, 1915, being at the time of his death 69 years, 5 months and two days old. At the age of two years he moved with his parents to Jackson county, Iowa, where on the 11th of November, 1864, he enlisted in Company E, Second Iowa Infantry in which company he served until July 12, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Louisville, Kentucky. After the war was over he went to Brown county, Kansas and from there to Linn county, Kansas, where on July 22nd, 1866, he was united in marriage to Mary M. Blankenship. After residing in Linn county, for two years they came to Wilson county and settled on a farm four miles southwest of Altoona, where they lived until five years when, on account of poor health, he was compelled to give up farm life and they moved to Altoona where they have since resided. To this union ten children were born, five sons, and five daughters, three of whom, one daughter and two sons, have already been called to the Great Beyond. Three who are left with the bereaved widow, Mary M. Chamberlain, to mourn the loss of a dear father, are four daughters, Mrs. Iva Bates, of Custer, Oklahoma, Mrs. Della Dannels and Mrs. Minnie Richey of Altoona, Kansas, and Mrs. Mary Wogan of Ft. Scott, Kansas. The three sons are Elmer L. Chamberlain, of Fredonia, Kansas, Harmon S. Chamberlain, of Piedmont, Kansas, and Everet A. Chamberlain, of Altoona. All of whom were in attendance at the funeral. Besides the children he is survived by thirty grand children. The deceased was converted in 1868 at a camp meeting in Linn county, Kansas and united with the Methodist church to which faith he remained faithful until the end. He was a kind, dutiful, considerate and loving husband and father and his constant advice to his children was for them to be always ready to meet their Creator.
“A precious one from us is gone
A voice we loved is stilled.
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled.
God in His wisdom hath recalled
The boon His love hath given,
And tho’ the body slumbers here
The Soul is safe in Heaven.”
Card pf Thanks.
We wish to thank the kind friends and neighbors for their assistance during the illness and death of our husband and father.
MRS. S. L. CHAMBERLAIN
AND FAMILY.