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Peter Henry Cole

Birth	:	13 Apr 1846 Lorain County, Ohio, USA
Death	:	3 Dec 1918 Chico, Butte County, California, USA
Burial	:	Edwardsburg Cemetery, Edwardsburg, Cass County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.8030014, -86.0800018
Plot	:	Sec 5,B Lot 52, sp 5
Inscription	:	Civil War Vet
Description	:	Peter H. Cole, age 19, enlisted as a private at Moscow, Michigan on February 13, 1865 in Company E, Michigan 5th Cavalry Regiment. He was mustered out on September 1, 1865, and transferred to Company E, Michigan 1st Cavalry Regiment, from which he was mustered out on December 5, 1865 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Source: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers 1861-65. ~~~ "PETER H. COLE – An 'old timer' who is well known as a contractor and builder, Peter H. Cole is now engaged as a horticulturist. Mrs. Cole is a diligent worker on the board of education to maintain a... Read More	Peter H. Cole, age 19, enlisted as a private at Moscow, Michigan on February 13, 1865 in Company E, Michigan 5th Cavalry Regiment. He was mustered out on September 1, 1865, and transferred to Company E, Michigan 1st Cavalry Regiment, from which he was mustered out on December 5, 1865 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Source: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers 1861-65. ~~~ "PETER H. COLE – An 'old timer' who is well known as a contractor and builder, Peter H. Cole is now engaged as a horticulturist. Mrs. Cole is a diligent worker on the board of education to maintain a high standard of schools, and is equally as well known as her husband. "Peter H. Cole is a son of Henry Cole, who was born in New Jersey and went to Lorain County, Ohio, where he settled. Grandmother Cole lived to the wonderful age of one hundred five years. Henry Cole was an iron-worker by trade, which he followed in the rolling mills in New Jersey and Ohio, but upon moving to Wisconsin he took up farming near Sparta, Monroe, County, continuing that occupation after he moved to Hillsdale County, Mich. In 1877, he retired and came to California, with his wife, who before her marriage, was Margaret Brazee. They both died in Chico. They were parents of eight children, three now living. "Peter H. Cole was born in Lorain County, Ohio, on April 13, 1845. He was but a baby when the family went to Wisconsin. He attended the public schools there until he was fourteen, then accompanied the family to Michigan, where he finished his education and worked on the home farm. In February, 1864, he volunteered for service in the Civil War, in Company E, Fifth Michigan Cavalry, and was mustered in at Detroit. He was sent to the front and served with Sheridan up and down the Shenandoah until the close of the war. One brother, Charles W. Cole, who died in the East, was in the same company. After the war he was sent, with his regiment, to Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and while there served in the Indian troubles on the frontier. At this period a peculiar incident occurred. When Mr. Cole stepped up to get his equipment, he was handed the same carbine that he had carried during his service in the Civil War. It had been shipped with the others from the east to Fort Leavenworth. He recognized it by the initials he had carved in the stock. The little band started across the plains after the red men, and came out in Utah, in the fall of 1865. The regiment returned to Fort Leavenworth, where he was mustered out in the fall of 1865, when he returned home. "Mr. Cole then learned the trades of stone and brick mason and plasterer, in Hillsdale and Jackson Counties, and engaged in contracting at Hanover, Mich. In 1877, he located in Chico, Cal., then a small town, but with wonderful possibilities, and here he began taking contracts and later carried on business, first under the firm name of Cole and Fordham, but later in business for himself, until 1907, when he retired. Many of the pioneer buildings in Chico show the master hand of Mr. Cole's workmanship, among them the Hubbard-Earll and Bank of Chico buildings; he did considerable work on the State Normal and other school buildings, besides working at many places in the surrounding country, and at Willows, Orland, Tehama, Red Bluff, Redding, Vina, Gridley, Biggs, Durham, Oroville, Butte City and Colusa, in all of which places he gave excellent satisfaction to his patrons. About eighteen years ago he bought thirty acres of land two and one-half miles north of Chico and set out peaches, prunes and almonds, now having some of the finest fruit and nuts in this district. He has given his personal attention to the development of his property, has erected the buildings, dry sheds, etc.; another investment he made was at the corner of First Street and Esplanade, Chico Vecino, improved with two residences, in one of which he now lives. "On December 19, 1901, in the Webster district, Mr. Cole married Mrs. Edith (Bullard) Jennings. She was born in Ossian, Iowa, a daughter of Hosea Bullard, who was born in New York and moved to Iowa, where he was a pioneer. He married Adelia Stevens, also a native of New York. They were prosperous farmers in Iowa, where they spent their last days. The youngest of seven children, Edith Bullard received a good education and afterwards engaged in teaching school in Iowa. There she married Roscoe Jennings, a native of Maine and a telegraph operator for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. He died in Iowa, and in 1901 Mrs. Jennings came to California and lived in Chico, Butte County, until her marriage with Mr. Cole. In 1915, at the school election held in April, Mrs. Cole was elected a member of the Chico Board of Education for a four-year term. She is a member of the purchasing committee and gives liberally of her time and attention to further the advancement of the school system and is wielding a strong influence for the best interest of the schools. Mr. Cole is a member of the Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife are members of Beulah Lodge, No. 60, Daughters of Rebekah, in which Mrs. Cole is Past Grand and Past District Deputy." History of Butte County, 1918, by George C. Mansfield, pp 912-13. ~~~ Peter H. Cole d. Dec 3, 1918, aged 72, Butte County; State File No. 52771. CA Death Index. ~~~ Chico Daily Record, Wednesday, December 4, 1918, pg 4 col 4-5-6: Peter H. Cole is Dead at Age of Seventy-Three. Peter Henry Cole, rancher retired building contractor, and Civil War veteran died at his Chico Vecino home early yesterday morning in his seventy-third year. Cole had been failing in health for the past three years. A native of Ohio Cole moved with his parents to Sparta, Wisc., when a child, and lived in that city until the Civil War, when he joined the 51st Cavalry, although but eighteen years old at the time. He served until hostilities ceased, doing service for a short time in Wyoming, where he engaged in a campaign against hostile Indians. After the war Cole moved with his parents to Orland, later settling in Chico, where he engaged in the contracting business. The Butte County Savings, Butte County National Bank and Chico Normal School stand as lasting monuments to his skill as a mason. During recent years he retired from active participation in building and devoted his energies to his thirty-acre ranch, which was sold two weeks before his death to A.E. Crum for $18,000. The deceased is survived by a widow, Mrs. Edith Cole, a member of the Board of Education; a sister, Mrs. W.W. Head of Chico; a brother, George F. Cole of Orland, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 o’clock from his late residence, First avenue and Esplanade, Rev. Galen Lee Rose officiating. Interment will be held in Chico Cemetery.

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Peter Henry Cole's memorial is located at: Edwardsburg Cemetery, Edwardsburg, Cass County, USA.
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Peter Henry Cole death on 3 Dec 1918 in Chico, Butte County, California, USA
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Latitude: 41.8030014
Longitude: -86.0800018

Family Members:

Parent

Henry Cole

(1805 - 1884)

Margaret Brazee Cole

(1813 - 1902)

Spouse

Siblings

James Norman Cole

(1847 - 1910)

John Fremont Cole

(1851 - 1886)

Laura Amanda Cole Head

(1853 - 1937)

George Franklin Cole

(1856 - 1919)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Edwardsburg Cemetery
Edwardsburg, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8030014, -86.0800018

2. Rodgers Cemetery
Edwardsburg, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8055477, -86.1197169

3. Crawford Cemetery
Edwardsburg, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8328018, -86.0481033

4. Smiths Chapel Cemetery
Edwardsburg, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7680855, -86.1456833

5. Adamsville Cemetery
Adamsville, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7821007, -86.0030975

6. Coulter Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.8552780, -86.1277780

7. Gods Half Acre Cemetery
Edwardsburg, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7668457, -86.0085373

8. Truitt Cemetery
Edwardsburg, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7811110, -86.1666670

9. Salem Cemetery
Granger, St. Joseph County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7357292, -86.0626373

10. Harris Prairie Cemetery
Granger, St. Joseph County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7531013, -86.1500015

11. Carleton Cemetery
Elkhart County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7386017, -86.0177994

12. Cass County Poor Farm Cemetery
Cassopolis, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8836110, -86.0347220

13. Reames-Norton Cemetery
Cassopolis, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8685379, -85.9978027

14. Shaffer Cemetery
Calvin Township, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8213997, -85.9591980

15. Salisbury Family Cemetery
Cassopolis, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8913880, -86.1244440

16. Dailey Cemetery
La Grange, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8977890, -86.0881805

17. Barron Lake Cemetery
Howard Township, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8480988, -86.1931000

18. Saint Davids Episcopal Church Columbarium
Elkhart, Elkhart County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7382920, -85.9825210

19. Five Points Cemetery
Edwardsburg, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7691670, -85.9552780

20. Dick Cemetery
Howard Township, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8511009, -86.2089005

21. Saint Joseph Valley Memorial Park
Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7217445, -86.1831512

22. California Road Church Cemetery
Elkhart, Elkhart County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6951408, -86.0372314

23. Bethel Cemetery
Calvin Center, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8469440, -85.9386110

24. Calvin Community Chapel Cemetery
Calvin Center, Cass County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8464990, -85.9310140