PIERCE COUNTY NEBRASKA CIVIL WAR DATABASE - Q
QUIVEY, WILLIAM W.; Pierce
B: 19 July 1842 Charleston, Illinois D: 29 July 1928 Seattle, Washington
Burial: Mitchell, Nebraska
Iowa 12th Infantry Company C -
Private
Enlistment Date: 24
September 1861 Douglass, Iowa
Discharged Date: 3
January 1864
Sources: 1890 Veterans Census
1893 Nebraska Veterans Census
Sons of Union Veterans
Database
Pierce
County Call; Pierce, Nebraska; 9 August 1928;
Page 1
A Former Veteran
of Pierce Passes Away
Wm. W. Quivey Answers Last Roll Call at His Home in Tacoma, Washington
Last
Saturday The Call received a letter containing the news of the death of Wm. W. Quivey, a former resident of Pierce. The letter containing
the sad news came from his son, Prof. L. A. Quivey, of
Salt
Lake City,
Utah. Mr. Quivey
passed away at Tacoma, Washington, on Sunday, July 29, in
the eighty-sixth year of his life.
Mr.
Quivey will be remembered by the people of Pierce and
northeast Nebraska where for a score or more
years he was prominent as a citizen and lawyer. He came to Pierce county in 1886 from Humbolt, Iowa, and engaged in the
practice of law. In this he was very successful and at once took a leading
position in the legal fraternity. He was a veteran of the civil war, seeing
active service with Gen. Grant in the Mississippi campaign. He carried a
rebel bullet in his right knee received in the assault of the Union forces on Fort Donelson, Kentucky. He took an active part
in the Grand Army of the Republic, and through his efforts many of the old
veterans and widows of the Civil War secured deserved recognition from the
government.
He
was an ardent Republican and was honored many times by his party and the people
of this county.
He
was also active in Masonic circles, becoming a member of Evergreen Lodge at
Pierce in November, 1886, a few months after the
masons of Pierce were granted a charter. He was honored by the lodge in June
1896, by being elected to the position of Worshipful Master, and served in that
capacity for a number of years. Deceased
removed from Pierce in 1912 locating in Mitchell, Nebr., and here he was also
successful with the practice of his chosen profession as well as in real estate
and other investments.
William
W. Quivey,
died in the Cushman Veterans’ Hospital at Tacoma, Washington, at 6
p.m.,
Sunday, July
29, 1928. He was eighty-six years
sold July 19th. He had been ill for seven months with a broken down
heart. He was born in Coles county, Ill., July 19, 1842.
Short
services were held in Seattle at 4:30 p.m., August 1st. The body was
taken to Mitchell, Nebraska, and buried beside his
wife, Sunday, August 5th, with Masonic honors.
He
had quit the practice of law nearly six years ago owing to a practical loss of
sight, and had been living with his daughter, Mrs. J. R. Ummel.
Of
the three children, Grace, who was Mrs. C. F. Montross,
was killed in an automobile accident in 1922; Zoe,
Mrs. J. R. Ummel, is living at 4307 Corliss Avenue, Seattle, Washington, where her husband is
office manager for the U. S. Alaska railroad; L. A. Quivey,
his son, is a professor at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
His
wife died in 1913 at Mitchell, Nebraska.
Mr.
and Mrs. Ummel accompanied the body to Mitchell.