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Name: Gaius Dickinson, Residence: Maquoketa, Iowa; Enlistment Date: 13 Aug 1862; Side Served: Union; State Served: Iowa; Birth Date: 22 Jul 1837; Death Date: 1 Mar 1904; Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 13 August 1862 at the age of 25. Enlisted in Company F, 31st Infantry Regiment Iowa on 20 Sep 1862. Received a disability discharge from Company F, 31st Infantry Regiment Iowa on 23 Apr 1864 at Keokuk, IA. Sources: 71,250; ancestry.com
Gaius H. Dickinson was born in Clark county, Ohio, July 22, 1837. He came with his parents to Iowa in 1849 and lived with them near Maquoketa, Ia., where he was married to Martelia McPeak, Oct. 19, 1856. She survives him, they having journeyed together forty-seven years.
Five children constituted the family, three of whom are living and were present to assist in laying their loved father to his rest.
At Maquoketa, he enlisted in Company F, 315 Iowa Infantry, Aug. 13, 1862, and was honorably discharged after serving two years. After the war he lived for a time in DeWitt. Here, as also in Maquoketa, he was an active and useful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the latter place serving as Sunday school superintendent, and in other official positions. In 1881, he came to reside in Tipton and identified himself with the same church here, and continued in it until his death. He was a highly esteemed member of William Beaver Post G.A.R., and of Modern Woodmen of America, and of the Legion of Honor.
As a citizen and business man he was well-known and held in respect. His shop was a cherished resort for his comrades and companions.
For several years he has been subject to occasional attacks of the disease of which he died; but during the present winter he has suffered greatly. The final resort was to surgery, for calculus, and he was carried to the hospital in Iowa City. There he was told the result of so serious an operation would be quite uncertain; but he chose the single chance for life, and yielded himself to treatment. The ordeal was passed and for a week he improved and gave promise of recovery. But on the morning of March 1, 1904, his strength failed and his spirit took its flight, we trust, "to be forever with the Lord". His faithful wife left him the evening before in the care of his nurse full of hope of his speedy restoration, but really to see him no more. His remains were brought to Tipton, and March 4, borne from his home followed by the Post and Lodge before mentioned to the Presbyterian church where funeral services were conducted by the pastor Rev. R.D. Parsons. The Woodman and Legion of Honor laid a floral tribute on the casket. The interment was in Masonic cemetery, under the direction of the G.A.R. After the impressive ritual,
"taps", and the soldier, brother and Christian, was left to his rest. Tipton, IA newspaper.
Notes from Cheryl: Gaius father was Daniel J. Dickinson, John Hall's brother. He lived in the Maquoketa area, moving from Ohio in 1849 according to Gaius's obituary, below, but they are still in Ohio in the 1850 Census, and in Iowa in the 1856 Iowa census. Gaius' mother was Lidia (36703118). She died in the Maquoketa area, Daniel remarried a lady named Prudence and in the 1880 census are in Illinois City, Rock Island county, living with Gaius's sister Ruth.
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1837 - 1904 (66 years)
