Lincoln, Randall

Name:  Lincoln, Randall
Burial Date: 1938, 05/07
Age at Death: 89
Plot Location: 126 D
Notes: husband of Emma(Hall) and Mary Martha(Tussey)

Co. D,, 83 Ill. Inf.

War: Civil War

Complete Obituary STERLING BULLETIN 5/19/1938

RANDALL LINCOLN

Randall Lincoln was born May 29, 1849 in Horseheads, New York and passed away at 4:00 p.m. at his home 1502 Pennsylvania Ave., Wichita, Kansas at the age of 89 years, 11 months, and 6 days. Services were held in the United Presbyterian Church, Wichita.

With his parents, he move to Iowa when he was small. Early in life, he united with the Baptist church. Later his membership was transferred to the U.P. church of which he remained a faithful member to the end.

At the age of sixteen, he joined the Illinois volunteers of the army of the Civil War, serving part of his enlistment with Company D 83, and part in Company D 61 of Illinois infantry. He was honorably discharged in September 1865.

About the year 1879, he was united in marriage to Miss Emma Hall. To this union were born two children, Elizabeth and Warren. Four years after the death of his wife, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Tussey. To this union were born five children, who with nine grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and many friends remain to mourn his loss.

In the year 1907, the family moved from Pennsylvania to the Kilbourn ranch, (Sterling, Kansas)  and there the angel of death again entered the home, and the wife and mother was gone. He carried on alone, devoting his life to the children, being interested in all of their activities.

For a number of years, he was an active member of the Garfield post No. 25, of the G.A.R. In his declining years, he spent much time reading books of literature, history and current events, He was especially interested in missionary news, his daughter Frances, being at work in India. He read his Bible every day until within a few days of his passing, when sight failed.

He was a kind and loving father, and a devout Christian to the end and “his children rise up to cal him blessed.”

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Randall Lincoln Dies

Randall Lincoln died at his home in Wichita, May 4 at the ‘age of ninety years’. He was buried at the Sterling Cemetery on May 7.

Mr. Lincoln was the father of Mrs. David R. Lindsay of Conway Springs, and Miss Frances Lincoln, of Sargodha, India. Frances took her nurses’ training at Sterling hospital, and went as a missionary to India, under the Women’s Board of the United Presbyterian Church in 1920.

Mr. Lincoln was a veteran of the Civil War, He leaves seven children, Mrs. D. R. Lindsay,  Malsen, William, Frances, Ralph, Fred and Marguerite, and eight grandchildren. The children and grandchildren were all present at his funeral.

___________________________________________________________________________ Randall Lincoln was born on May 19, 1848, in New York, New York, his father, Warren, was 25 and his mother, Harriet, was 20. He married Emma Hall and they had two children together. He then married Mary Martha Tussey and they had five children together. He died on May 5, 1938, at the age of 89.