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wnai more man a year of war, a bullet wound, and months in a war prison camp failed to do, the infirmities of ageaccomplished Thursdayas Lima lost her last surviving Civil War veteran. John A. Ream is dead, the News wrote Dee. 30, 1943. “The son of Joh and Lydia Bresler Ream, he was born in 1843 on the banks of Sugar Creek in Allen County. When he was 3 his mother died and his father took him to Springfield where he lived with an aunt. Six years later his aunt also died, and his father, w ho had remarried, broughtueweese s won*Ream, Amherst was longgone. South W'trsaw, w hich stood on the south bank ot tn*- Auglaize River near the intersection of Schooler and Warsaw roads about two miles northeast of the site of Amherst, was still in existence in 1935.On his 99th birthday on April 14, 1942, whileAmerica was embroiledin World War II, the News again interviewedReam at the home of his youngest son, C.B. Brooks” Ream who lived in the family farm on the southeast corner of Amherst and Teamin a uiiir 3AUU1JM1 uuring which his left elbow w as shot away. He was taken to a hospital at Lynchburg, Virginia,where he was attended Confederate doctors and1 „ittV I 11* UK* UK , twainlived with his niece, Emma Crumrine. at 1032?hes Ave., was interviewed LimaSee VETERAN 2A flourish from the Civil War era
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The Lima News
Lima, Ohio, US
Wed, Oct 14, 2015
Page 21
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