ALEXANDER QUEARY GRAVESTONE PHOTO
Clyde Republican, Jan 24, 1894 MILITARY RECORDS
Died: Jan 17, 1894 PENSION PAPERS
Alexander Queary, at his home in Clyde, Jan. 17 1894, aged 62 years. Funeral services was held in the M.E. church on the 18th at 2pm. Rev. Michener preached a very touching and appropriate sermon from Matthew xxiv: 42,43,44. Mr. Queary was born in Canada 1832, but moved to Iowa in 1857. When the war broke out he joined the 19th regt. Iowa Vol. Inft. and gave three years of his life to the defense of his country. After the war, he returned to Iowa and on April 2 1866 he was married to Miss Sarah Henderson and in 1878 he moved his family to the vicinity of Clyde, Kan. where they have since made their home. He leaves a wife and three grown daughters to mourn his loss.
Contributed by his great great grand daughter
Karen Pickett