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Note: HE WAS A SOLDIER IN THE UNION ARMY. HE FAUGHT AT GETTYSBURGH,BULL RUN,AND SEVEN OAKS. He was a Tanner 1880 Census: Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace Martin MCDONGAL Self M Male W 38 NEW YORK Farmer NEW YORK NEW YORK Jennie MCDONGAL Wife M Female W 36 NEW YORK Keeping House NEW YORK NEW YORK Walter MCDONGAL Son S Male W 4 NEW YORK NEW YORK NEW YORK Source Information: Census Place Elizabethtown, Essex, New York Family History Library Film 1254832 NA Film Number T9-0832 Page Number 82C Martin Van Buren MacDougal. Martin Van Buren MacDougal, whose death occurred at his home in this town Thursday last, in his 76th year, was a son of the late Alexander MacDougal, Sr:, Elizabethtown's pioneer tanner, and Lucretia Abel, his wife. The grand father of the deceased on the maternal side was the late Azel Abel, a Revolutionary soldier and Elizabethtown's first hotel keeper, he having had a log inn between where Maple wood Inn now stands and the Branch or little Boquet. Azel Abel located here in 1798, before Essex County was organized and when the Indians had their wigwans on the opposite side of the stream under the bank where the Cautin block . and the Hand law office now stand. Thus it will be seen that the deceased descended from pioneer stock on both sides. Born April 17,1841, Martin Van Buren MacDongal grew up here In Elizabethtown, working in his boyhood days for the late Ira Marks. May 28 1861, he marched away with brave old.Company of the 38th New York Volunteers- (Second Scott Life Guards) and followed the varying fortunes of that efficient military organization led by the late Col. J. H. Ward. After his service in the 38th he re-enlisted in Company K, 4th New York Heavy Artillery. After arduous military service and bearing a wound which gave him a hitch in his gait for life he returned to his native town to pursue the arts of peace. His erect carriage and military bearing re ained with him to the end. He was a charter member of S. C. Dwyer Post, No. 528, G.A.R, and had held various town offices, including Collector and Constable. He was a kind hearted man and a good neighbor. His wife, who was Miss Jennie Durand in her maiden days, died in 1888. For more than 30 years he bad acted as caretaker for the Marks country property on the plain in this village. In earlier days he served as a nurse, helping to care for several of the distinguished men of Elizabethtown. He is survived by two sons, Walter D. and Harry M. and two sisters and one brother. Funeral services were held at his late borne Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rey. Jabez Backus and Rev. Herbert Ford officiating, the Grand Armv service being conducted at the grave in Riverside Cemetery.
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