Belden, Elias C 1823-1897

BELDEN, FAUVER, KUCHER, KUCKER, WILSON, VAN AUKEN, HUNN, LOOMER, WATTS, TROUTNER

Posted By: Amy
Date: 4/16/2022 at 16:23:54

Civil War veteran - 145th Ill Vol INF, saw action near Dalton, GA
Son of Ephraim and Elizabeth "Betsy" (Fauver" Belden
Took passage on a sailing ship going around the horn to California to pursue interest in the gold rush.
Husband of Catherine A. Kucher - m. 1864
Father of seven children in Waukegan, IL between 1865-1878
Elias and Catherine left Illinois for Utah. They stayed overnight near Little Brown Church near Nashua, Iowa. They continued on but discovered they had forgotten their money which they had buried overnight in Nashua. They returned and decided to homestead there. He died in 1897 at age 72.
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Undertaker Lundt and Charley Pierson went to Horton Tuesday and exhumed the body of Elias Belden from the cemetery at that place and buried it by the side of his wife in Greenwood. Mr. Belden died 13 years ago.
The Nashua Reporter (Nashua, Iowa); 29 Sep 1910, Thu. Page 1