Pvt. Charles B. Tuttle

Pvt. Charles B. Tuttle

K Co. 9th Minn. Inf.

   Moved to Elgin, Ill. in 1908.

       From the Post #49 Files
Joined Elgin GAR Veteran's Post #49 April 1, 1910.

       Obit: April 27, 1923 issue The Elgin Daily News.
   Charles B. Tuttle died at 4 o'clock this morning at his home at 259 Cherry street, following a several weeks illness of paralysis.  Mr. Tuttle was taken ill shortly after returning home from a winter sojourn at Biloxi, Miss.
   He was born July 1839 at New Berlin, N.Y., and had made Elgin his home for the last fifteen years.  He was a member of the Elgin Lodge, No. 117, A.F. and A.M., the First Methodist church, Co. K, of the Ninth Regiment of Minnesota Infantry and G.A.R., Post No. 49.
   He is survived by his wife, two sons, Norman K., of Madison, S.D., and John W., of Albert Lea, Minn., twelve grand children, and a brother, Horace, of this city.
   Funeral services will be held at the Norris Chapel, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock and the Rev. J.B. Martin will officiate.  Burial will be at Bluff City cemetery.

       From the 1956 Kane Co. Honor Roll
Interred at Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin, Ill.
Location - Lot 71, Section 11

Used with permission Dan Mallett

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