This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#225149) Joseph Carlisle <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=225149> AUTHOR: Judy Kelley DATE: 3/5/2009 at 18:02:54 Surnames: CARLISLE,TWIGG,MARTIN,BRINKER,GURTNER We are called again to write a memorial and pay a last tribute of love and respect to one who in his life won the respect and held the esteem of all who knew him. Joseph Carlisle, a long time resident and highly respected citizen of Illinois City, died without warning or illness on May 20, 1919. Thus came to an end a life which had known its share of sunshine and shadows; a life that was nobly and unselfishly given to the happiness of others. Born in East Liverpool, Columbiana county, Ohio, March 6th, 1841, he went with his father's family to Maysville, Ky., from which place they removed to Covington, Ky, where bereavement came to their home and took away his father. When deceased was seven years of age, his mother and her five children made their way back to New Lisbon, Ohio. A short time after the mother found a home for little Joe with a farmer by the name of Andrew Brinker, with whom he lived until he was eighteen. In 1860 he attended an academy at Damascovill, Ohio. In 1861 he was a student at the Western Reserve Electric Institute of Hiram, Portage county, Ohio, of which school James A Garfield was president. On March 15, 1862, he enlisted in the 12th U.S. Infantry at Springfield, Ill., and took an honorable part in all of the engagements in which this regiment participated, including The Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. He was taken prisoner near Spotsylvania Court House on May 10, 1864, reached Andersonville prison May 25 on the 12th of September was removed to Florence, S.C., from which place he made his escape Sept. 15, was recaptured October 1, and made a second escape by cutting a hole through a box car, reaching the Union lines on Dec. 12, at Belle Plain, East Tenn. Traveling from Belle Plain to Washington, D.C., he was stationed at Elmyra, N.Y., doing guard duty over seven thousand Rebel prisoners. He reported to his regimental commander again on January 1, 1865. Received an honorable discharge March 15, 1865, term of enlistment having expired. Was a student of telegraphy at Oberlin, Ohio, in 1865. Coming west, deceased was married to Miss Fannie J. Twigg of Louisa County, Iowa, in 1868. To this union three children were born. Dr. Carlisle of Diagonal, Iowa, and Mrs. Gail Gurtner of Denver, Colorado, one child having died in infancy. He was married again in 1904 to Mrs. Fannie Martin who, with his two children remain to mourn the loss of a kind husband and loving father. The entire community where he has lived for many years think of him as a personal friend and his relatives and near neighbors, those who knew him best, will long remember the pure life that was lived among them, and we of a younger generation with deep gratitude in our hearts, stand with bared heads and tear-dimmed eyes as one by one the Old Guard marches by into that Great Beyond. Let us resolve to keep alive in memory their deeds of valor for feedom's cause by placing the choicest flowers on their graves. Funeral services were held at Illinois City, and the remains were brought to Wapello Monday and buried in the cemetery there. Wapello Republican, Thursday, May 29, 1919