(Originally posted 25 JUL 2003 by Lynn Snyder)
18 Nov 1905
Laconia, Harrison Co., IN
William A. KINGSLEY, aged 61, died at the residence of Thomas NOON, in Boone township. He was born 13 Nov 1844 in Harrison Co., IN to Simeon KINGSLEY and Elizabeth BRANDENBURG. He was a soldier in the Civil War and served as a CPL with the 59th Reg’t Indiana Infantry from 1862 – 1865. He was married to the former Lucy Ellen ANDERSON, who preceeded him in death, as did a daughter Nellie, both in Jan of 1890. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs Jessie A. DODD, and a son Joseph A. KINGSLEY. He also leaves two brothers, Thomas F. KINGSLEY and Allen KINGSLEY, and two sisters, Mrs. Minerva H. CROSIER and Margaret M. STEEPLETON. William was laid to rest next to his beloved wife and daughter, in the King’s Cemetery, south of Laconia in Boone Township.
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