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Note: Researched & Submitted by Mary Rhodes
From: Allegany County Reporter Mar 26, 1912
"OLD SOLDIER CALLED
Gideon Drake Stockwell of Birdsall, Dies at the age of 78
Gideon Drake Stockwell died in Birdsall at the home of Frank J. Closser, March 14, 1912.
The deceased was born in the town of Almond, March 11, 1834. He enlisted at Birdsall August 1861 in the 30th NY Infantry afterwards changed to the 1st NY Dragoons. Was mustered out and discharged at Washington in 1865.
On his return home he married Annie Kellogg of the town of Allen. The following year they moved to Michigan where he lived for about twenty years, when he returned to Birdsall and has retained his residence there since. For the past eighteen years he has made his home with Frank J. Closser.
He left one son Cyrus, a Congregational minister living in Illinois, and a daughter, Edith Shepard of Litchfield, Mich.
All his living brother and sisters were present at the funeral, namely, two brothers, David of Buffalo and B.W. of Birdsall, and three sisters, Mrs. Nancy Hull, and Mrs. Mary Luce of Buffalo and Mrs. Hattie Kellogg of Niagara Falls."
NOTE: It is believed Mr. Stockwell is buried in the White Cemetery in Allen. If there is a marker for him, it is buried under years of pine needles.
"Uncle Gid, as he was known to many in the family, was a cabinetmaker, another in the long line of Stockwells in various generations who love to work with wood. A skilled craftsman, he seemed to be able to make almost anything with either wood or metal. A few of his pieces ar still treasured by descendants. Reported are the chip-carved wooden trivet in posession of Don Phillips, and Mary (Kellogg) Phillips' pot scrubber, a metal 'dishcloth' made of tiny interlocking metal rings and used for scrubbing very dirty pots and pans...
"The location of Gideon's and Anna's graves remains a question mark. Family reports say, 'Burial in a family cemetery, unmarked.'... Margaret Hodnett of Fillmore, NY reports finding in an undertaker's old recordbook the notation, 'Ann Stockwell died in Fillmore Juy 4, 1908. Burial Pine Grove Cemetery.' Would this be the same Anna?" - The Stockwell Family p.621
obituary per The Stockwell Family: "Was born in the town of Almond Mar 11th 1834. He enlisted at Bridsall Aug 1861, in the 30th NY Infantry, afterwards changed to the 1st NY Dragoons. Was mustered out and discharged at Washington in 1865. On his return home he married Annie Kellogg of the town of Allen. The following year thye moved to Michigan where he lived for about 20 years. When he returned to Birdsall and has retained his residence there since." [sic]
"For the past eighteen years he has made his home with Frank J. Closser where he died March 14, 1912.
"He left one son, Cyrus, a Congregational minister living in Illinois, and a daughter, Edith Shepard, of Litchfield, Mich.
"He was a carpenter by trade and was one of the first builders of the wooden hooped silo.
"He was a man of great physical strength and endurance, strictly temperate in every sense of the word and hapiest when he had penty of hard work or was helping some one with their building problems, and no richer man ever lived, for he had everything he wanted and always had enough to divide with any deserving one in need. All of his living brothers and sisters were present at the funeral, namely: two brothers, David of Buffalo and B.W. of Birdsall, and three sisters, Mrs. Nancy Hull and Mrs. Mary Luce of Buffalo, and Mrs. Hattie Kellogg of Niagara Falls."
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