Pvt. Andrew J. Sutton

Pvt. Andrew J. Sutton

D Co.      145th Ohio Inf.

     
        From the Post #49 files
Joined Elgin GAR Veteran's Post #49 Oct. 6, 1885.

       Obit; from the July 26, 1890 issue of The Elgin Courier.
      A.J. Sutton, a man of 55 or 60 and a veteran of the war, has kept a shoeshop in the basement of Charles Metrelburg's building on Douglas avenue, opposite the Northwestern depot.  He was a large man, apparently in excellent health, and there were no premonitions of his fate when he left his home on Porsect street, close the school house, on Monday morning.
      At noon a son of James Mallett, his neighbor, went into the little shop to eat his lunch, as had been his custom lately.  He was startles to find Mr. Sutton lying prone on the floor, apparently lifeless.  He summoned help and the old gentleman was taken to his home, where he died shortly before midnight.  The stroke was apparently apoplexy.
      Deceased leaves a wife and several children.  One son and a daughter reside here.  Another is a department clerk at Washington and a daughter lives in Chicago.

   Obit: July 26, 1890 issue Elgin's Every Saturday.
      Andrew J. Sutton, the shoemaker of 83 Douglas avenue, died suddenly of paralysis July 21.  He was found unconscious Monday noon by Walter Mallett, of the publishing house, who called a carriage and took him to the house of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Gibbs, 438 Prospect street, where he died about 9 o'clock in the evening without regaining his consciousness.  He leaves four children, Mrs. Gibbs and William, of Elgin, Mrs. Ella Turner, of Chicago and Wilber Sutton, of Washington.        He was a member of the G.A.R.

       From the 1956 Kane Co. Honor Roll
Soldier - Pvt. Andrew J. Sutton
Unit - Co. D       156th Ohio Inf.
Died - July 21, 1890
Interred at - Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin, Ill.
Location - Soldiers Reserve

Used with permission Dan Mallett

Many members of Post #49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.