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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 92906957
• Obituary: 18 Apr 1901, Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois; Times-Record

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Chester Quinlan Dunn, was a very sturdy child. He was quiet & serious but active and early manifested the adventurous disposition of his eldest brother Edward. In early manhood he went to Montana & drove a mail stage from Miles city to Boseman. He enjoyed the adventurous life of the west but after returning home he became much more serious minded than any of his brothers & sisters.

He married Emma Hall in 1892. They had one child which died after one year of age. Chester went to the Phillipines as a soldier in the Spanish-American War & died from fever during the winter of 1898. His remains were sent to his parents & buried in the Millersburg Cemetery.
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Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903
Name: Chester Q Dunn
State of Cemetery: Illinois
Date of Death: 23 Mar 1900
Cemetery: Millersburg
Pvt. Co. E 34th Regt. U.S.V.I.

Information provided by Beverly Dunn

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Obituary:
Died in Country's Service.

The body of Chester Q. Dunn arrived in this city from Oakville, Iowa, the home of the parents of the deceased, last Friday morning. The remains were accompanied here by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Dunn, of Oakville, two brothers, Frank of Osceola, Nebraska, and Dr. H. E. and wife of Kansas City and sister, Mrs. Neva McFarland, of Gilbert Station, Iowa, and by A. L. Duncan, James Duncan, David Brown and John Thompson of Oakville. Funeral services had been held at Oakville Thursday afternoon. The G.A.R. and W.R.C. met the funeral party at the depot here and formed an escort to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Butler, six returned soldiers from the late war, J. E. Mardock, Will Braught, Gus Mohl, John Hall, J. A. Wells and Dave Murphy, acting as palllbearers. At ten o'clock a short service was held, conducted by Dr. W. S. Davis at the Butler home, and the remains were then taken to Millersburg, where they were interred in the family lot.

The deceased was born at Millerburg, January 1862, and for many years resided in this county with his parents. He enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 34th U.S. Volunteer infantry on July 11, 1899, at Denver. He was quartered at Fort Logan, Colorado, until August 28th, and from there went to Presdio, sailing from San Francisco with his regiment September 8, reaching Manilla October 13th. His death occurred at Manila March 21, 1900, of malaria, after a short illness.

Chester married Emma Frances Hall on 17 Sep 1892 in Gilbert Station, Story County, Iowa. Emma (daughter of Isaac Agard Hall and Emily Ann Spelman) was born on 11 Mar 1860 in Stafford, Tolland County, Connecticut; died in 1947; was buried after 1947 in Gilbert Cemetery, Gilbert, Story County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]