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Joseph Bleakley

Birth	:	1844 Ireland
Death	:	9 Feb 1922
Burial	:	Abilene Cemetery, Abilene, Dickinson County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.9322014, -97.2217026
Plot	:	Block 3 Bleakley lot 15
Description	:	CIVIL WAR VETERAN--Returned to Illinois in 1862 and enlisted in Company D, Eighty-Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He served with that regiment during the war, and at its close returned to New Orleans and remained there until he came to Kansas in 1872. ****** JOSEPH BLEAKLEY, farmer, stock and grain dealer, P. O. North Lawrence, Jefferson County, came to Kansas in the spring of 1872 and located on his farm of 240 acres of rich land in Reno Township, where he has one of the finest wheat farms in the State. In 1882 he had one field of eighty-four acres of wheat that... Read More	CIVIL WAR VETERAN--Returned to Illinois in 1862 and enlisted in Company D, Eighty-Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He served with that regiment during the war, and at its close returned to New Orleans and remained there until he came to Kansas in 1872. ****** JOSEPH BLEAKLEY, farmer, stock and grain dealer, P. O. North Lawrence, Jefferson County, came to Kansas in the spring of 1872 and located on his farm of 240 acres of rich land in Reno Township, where he has one of the finest wheat farms in the State. In 1882 he had one field of eighty-four acres of wheat that averaged thirty-two bushels to the acre. Mr. Bleakley was born in Ireland, in 1844, and lived about six years in his native country. He came to the United States in 1850 and located in New Orleans, remained a few months, and then went to Southern Illinois, to Wayne County, and remained there two years. Thence he returned to New Orleans and remained there until the spring of 1860. He then returned to Illinois in 1862 and enlisted in Company D, Eighty-Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He served with that regiment during the war, and at its close returned to New Orleans and remained there until he came to Kansas in 1872. He was married in September, 1869, to Miss Alicia Thompson, a native of Ireland. They have had five children - Walter T., George R., May B., Ella E. and Joseph J. Mr. Bleakley was the Master of the Grange in his neighborhood for several years, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been Trustee and Assessor for his township for two years.

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Joseph Bleakley's memorial is located at: Abilene Cemetery, Abilene, Dickinson County, USA.
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Latitude: 38.9322014
Longitude: -97.2217026

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Spouse

Alicia Thompson Bleakley

(1847 - 1918)

Children

Walter Thomson Bleakley Sr.

(1870 - 1948)

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