Obituary of George E. Waggaman
Civil War Veteran

Source:
Nashville Journal,
Nashville, Illinois
January 17, 1918

George E. Waggaman   Another veteran of the Civil War has answered the last roll call. George E. Waggaman of Washington, D.C., formerly a citizen of Nashville and a member of this Post, passed away on December 17, 1917, in his seventy-second year. His mortal remains rest in the beautiful National Cemetery at Washington among thousands of comrades there to await the resurrection morning. His spirit communes with kindred spirits in the Great Beyond. Our deceased comrade was a true and faithful member of this Post, ever interested in its welfare and in advancing the spirit of true comradeship among the soldiers of the Civil War. He loved his country, not only ready to do, but if necessary to give his life for it. The wound on his body gave ample evidence of his intense patriotism, and that he was of the highest type of true American citizenship. To his relatives we tender our heartfelt sympathy. “Soon we'll all be gone, Dropping from the ranks, Falling into line, One by one.”

Nashville Post No. 419   George Elliott Waggaman was born in Beverly, Ohio, as the son of the late Rev. John Calhoun Waggaman and Mary E. Waggaman of Nashville. He gained his education in the public schools and Monmouth College, which he was attending at the time of his enlistment in the Union army. He was wounded at Allatoona Pass, Ga., being shot in the chest, and after his recovery was transferred to Co. G, U.S. Invalid Corps at Rock Island, Ill. In 1869 he was married to Catherine L. Kearney of New York. She passed away Oct. 29, 1901, and he was again married in 1903 to Mary Havener of Virginia, who survives him. One son, John Waggaman of California, and two daughters, Miss Mae Waggaman and Mrs. J.E. Giles of Washington, D.C., two sisters, Mrs. Virginia E. Marlin of East St. Louis and Mrs. Iris E. Roth of Colorado, also survive him.   Deceased removed to Washington, D.C., from Nashville in 1892 and entered the employ of the government in the Interior Department, where he remained until a week before his death. Although a sufferer for many years with the bullet wound in his lung, he never complained and his death came as a great shock to his family.