 1842 - 1928 (85 years)
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| Name |
Levi H Applegate |
| Born |
15 Oct 1842 |
Mason County, Kentucky, USA  [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
1850 |
Washington Township, Parke County, Indiana, USA [5] |
| Occupation |
1870 [6] |
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| Voress Number |
1D3C1D2C |
| Residence |
1870 |
Prairie Creek Township, Vigo County, Indiana, USA [6] |
| Residence |
1900 |
Prairieton Township, Vigo County, Indiana, USA [7] |
| Died |
25 Jan 1928 |
Prairietown, Vigo County, Indiana, USA |
| Buried |
Prairieton Cemetery, Prairieton, Vigo County, Indiana, USA |
| Notes |
- From C. C. Coakley, "Greater Terre Haute and Vigo County: Closing the First Century's History of City and County" Vol II (Lewis Publishing Co., 1908), pp. 796-7
Levi Applegate was born in Kentucky October 15, 1842, but since his early manhood he has been identified with the interests of Vigo county. His father, Nicholas Applegate, was born in 1811, came as a laborer to Parke county, Indiana, in 1843 and worked in the mines there most of the time during the remainder of his live, his death occurring on the 26th of November, 1887. He had been twice married, having three children by the first union, but the only one now living is Levi, the youngest child. The first born was Miranda and the second James. His second wife bore the name Rebecca Thomas, and their four children were: George, still living, of Parke county, and Jeannette, Presley and Rachel, all deceased. Mr. Nicholas Applegate voted with the Democratic party until the inauguration of the Civil war, when he espoused the Republican cause and remained true to its principles.
Levi Applegate spent the first sixteen years of his live at home with his parents and then worked with different employers until his enlistment of the Civil war, October 15, 1861, entering Company G, Forty-third Indiana Infantry. He entered the ranks as a private and was discharged June 14, 1865, having been in active service during all that time and participating in the batts of New Madrid, Riddle Point, Fort Pillar, and in Missouri; Memphis, tennessee, and Helena, Azor Pass, Little Rock and Mark Mill, Arkansas. He was captured in the last engagement but made his escape after two weeks and throughout his entire service he was never wounded. He now receives a pension of fourteen dollars a month. After returning from the war Mr. Applegate conducted a sawmill for one year in Fountain county and then farmed rented land there for a similar period. In the spring of 1867 he cam to Prairietown Township, Vigo county, where for four years he rented land, and then, in 1871, purchased a tract of sixty acres, to which he later added thirty acres more, but in 1903 he sold the farm and bought three lots and a residence in Prairieton.
He cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, at his second term, and has voted the Republican ticket ever since. For fourteen years, representing the Republican party, he served as the constable of Prairie Creek township, and for four years was a justice of the peace in the same township. He is a member of Blinn Post, No. 394, Grand Army of the Republic. In 1865 Mr. Applegate married Eleanor Phillips, who was born April 7, 1840, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church.
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| Person ID |
I11692 |
Applegate Main |
| Last Modified |
11 Oct 2018 |
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| Sources |
- [S68] Greater Terre Haute and Vigo County, C C Oakey, (The Lewis Publishing Company), 796.
- [S85] 1870 United States Census, IN, Vigo Co., Prairie Creek Twp., p. 6, 37/37.
age 29, birthplace IN
- [S84] 1900 United States Census, IN, Vigo Co., Prairieton Twp., Dist. 4/133, Sheet 6B, 120/121.
Oct 1842, birthplace IN
- [S86] 1850 United States Census, IN, Parke Co., [illegible] , 487/487.
age 8, birthplace KY
- [S86] 1850 United States Census, IN, Parke Co., [illegible] , 487/487.
- [S85] 1870 United States Census, IN, Vigo Co., Prairie Creek Twp., p. 6, 37/37.
- [S84] 1900 United States Census, IN, Vigo Co., Prairieton Twp., Dist. 4/133, Sheet 6B, 120/121.
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