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LETTERS

 

 To Reuben Aleshire
     18 May 1864 - Nasville, Tennessee

To Margaret Shepard Aleshire
    11 April 1865 - London, Tennessee

To Joseph P. Aleshire
   5 June 1878 - Gallipolis, Ohio
   13 June 1878 - Gallipolis, Ohio
   15 June 1878 - Gallipolis, Ohio
   17 June 1878 - Gallipolis, Ohio
   20 March 1883 - Gallipolis, Ohio

    
     Edward was born in 1842. He was the captain of Company F, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. He commanded Fort Dickinson at Knoxville, Tennessee, and served as the Judge Advocate General of the Twenty-third Corps, Army of the Ohio.
   After the war he engaged in the wheat and flour milling business with his father, Reuben Aleshire. In the 1880's he became an independent grain dealer. In 1896 he moved to Huntington, West Virginia, where he died in 1904.

   

 Reuben Aleshire  |  Charles Aleshire |  Joseph Aleshire   | Reuben Aleshire, Jr. |  Mary Aleshire  |  Harry Aleshire

  

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