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- George W. DIBBLE, formerly of this city, died last
Saturday at the home of his son,
- Allen W. DIBBLE, in Madison. Mr. DIBBLE was
for many years a resident of this city and was well known here.
- He was born in Chautauqua county, New York, January 11, 1837,
and moved to
- Wisconsin in 1849. He enlisted in the Union army in 1863
and served until the end of the war. After a short residence
in Minnesota he lived in Evansville, until 1899, when he moved
to Fruitvale, Alabama, and came to Madison to live with his son
in 1918. He was married in Evansville in 1863 to Lucinda WADSWORTH,
who died in 1894. In 1896, he married Mary WADSWORTH who
died April 6, 1911.
- The deceased was a prominent member of the G.A.R., and his
funeral at Madison was
- under the auspices of the post of that city and the organization
in this city attended his funeral in a body at the Methodist
church where the funeral was conducted by the Rev. Hugh Misdall.
The body was taken to the Ball Tavern cemetery for interment
Monday afternoon.
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- Courtesy of Ruth Ann Montgomery.
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