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Note: DEATH: U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index
Census & Voter Lists
Name: William Tuttle
Birth: abt 1839 - IN
Death: Jan 1870 - Douglas Co, KS
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POSTED ON FIND A GRAVE WEB SITE - per Patti #47300380:
--Originally buried in Baldwin Cemetery then moved to Oak Hill Cemetery about 1920--
"William Henry Harrison Tuttle, who was born in Indiana 20 Feb 1839, married Mary Louisa Moore who's maternal grandfather was a Prather. This grandfather had given her approximately $3000 on the occasion of her marriage. The young Tuttle family had 2 living children before William's tragic death. They were Henry Arthur Tuttle and Anna Belle Tuttle. "Henry", as William H H Tuttle was known, was reported to have shot himself accidentally while traveling in Indian Territory. This occurred 18 Dec 1869. His brother "traveled to his aid" on 30 Dec 1869 and arrived 3 Jan 1870. Unfortunately William Henry Harrison Tuttle died the following day. His wife Mary Louisa Moore Tuttle remarried a year later to a Lorenzo Willis who was 22 years her senior.
Inscription on gravestone & Removal of Wm Henry & stone to Oak Hill Cemetery:
Baldwin City Cemetery, Baldwin City, Douglas County, Kansas----Baldwin Cemetery's fallen stones were reported to have been gathered and placed in 2 rows at one time. William Henry Harrison Tuttle's stone was not among them, as he and his stone were moved to Oak Hill Cemetery where he now rests at Sgt. Wm H H Tuttle."
Birth: Feb. 20, 1839
Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, USA
Death: Jan. 4, 1870
Douglas County, Kansas, USA
William Henry Harrison was the son of Lewis Tuttle and Abigail Mariamna Willey and was born in Jeffersonville,Clark county, Indiana. He entered the Kentucky 1st Infantry Company F as a corporal and ended his service as a Sergent.
On 15 February 1866, Wm. Henry married Mary Louisa "Lulu" Moore who was his step sister. They were raised together from the time that his widowed father married her widowed mother. Together they had 2 children, Anna Belle Tuttle in 1868 and Henry Arthur Tuttle in August 1869.
Tragically, while traveling in "Indian Territory" in December 1869, Wm. Henry is reported to have accidentally shot himself. He lived for some weeks afterward and his brother, Lewis, traveled to help him. Lewis Tuttle arrived at Wm. Henry's side on January 3, 1870, and Wm. Henry died the next day.
The US government purchased grave markers for many Union Civil War veterans and did so for a Sgt. W. Henry Tuttle who records show died 4 January 1870. He is listed in the record as serving in the Kentucky 1st Infantry. The records say he was buried in Baldwin Cemetery. His grave marker is currently standing in Oak Hill Cemetery. Local records have a 1920's date as William Henry's date of death. Persons researching the Tuttle family in this county believe that the grave stone was moved in the 1920's so that William Henry would be with the rest of his family who died locally. Somehow the move date was recorded as his original burial date.
Family links:
Spouse: Mary Louisa Moore Tuttle Willis (1848 - 1922) Children: Anna Belle Tuttle Davis (1868 - 1895)* Burial:
Oak Hill Cemetery
Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, USA
Plot: Section 7
Maintained by: Patti
Originally Created by: MrPeepers
Record added: Sep 08, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 29672332
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