Henry Applegate

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• Voress Number: 1D1A2E1
• Residence: 1850, Harrison Township, Owen County, Indiana, USA
• Occupation: 1870
• Residence: 1870, Wright Township, Wayne County, Iowa, USA

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HENRY APPLEGATE, This honored veteran of the Civil war resides in Moore, and has been actively associated with its welfare for the past decade. Inh his career he has haed many adverse circumstances to contend with, and yet has conquer4ed each obstacle, if of the kind that can be overcome, bearing the rest with fortitude worthy of emulation. All credit is due him for the part which he played in the years of our country’s peril, when, leaving his young wife anmd home and all his business interests he went to fight for the land of his love, giving almost five years of his early manhood to the holy cause.
In following the history of Henry Applegate, it is learned that he is a son of Henry and Nancy (Hancock) Applegate. His mnother died in Indiana when he was two and a half years old, leavinbg a little one, now Henderson Applegate, of Grand Island , Neb. The father married again, and took his two boys to Lucas county, Iowa, in 1852, where he bought and entered some land, and became a farmer of that region. Hentry Applegate was born in Owen county, Ind., October 16, 1840, and in his boyhood hyad but limited educational advantages. At fourteen he commenced working in earnest, and during the winters attended school. Possessing a voice of more than the ordinary kind, he cultivated it after he had grown to manhood, and for sometime taught vocal music.
February 12, 1860, Henry Applegate and Miss Mary J. Chapman of Wayne county, Iowa, were united in marriage. She is a mnative of Putnam county, Ind., and a daughter of Isaac M. and Catherine B. (Pennebaker) Chapman, who removed to Iowa when she was eighteen months old, and there she was reared to womanhood.
In August, 1861, Mr. Applegate enlisted in Company I, Eighth Iowa Infantry, and was first under fire at Warsaw, Mo. Altogether he participated in nineteen of the important battles of the war, including Pittsburg Landing, Vicksburg campaign, Spanish Fort, and Fort Blakeley. The exposure to all kinds of weather brought on rheumatism and other illnesses, and for a short time he was in the hospital at Hamburg, and again one near Vicksburg. When campaigning in the neighborhood of Memphis, he was captured by Forrest’s Cavalry and was sent to Cahaba, Ala., there kept a prisoner for six weeks. Though his clothing was often pierced by bullets and his escapes were innumerable, he served throughout the war without being wounded. On account of poor health, he was on detatched duty for some time, serving as a clerk in the Freedman’s Bureau at Montgomery, Ala., and also in the government employ as a detective, in the interests of the same bureau. He was not discharged from the service until April 19, 1866, about a year after the war had closed.
Returning to Iowa, Mr. Applegate purchased one hundred twenty eight acres of land in Wayne county, and proceded to develop the tract, which was in a wild condition. In 1871 he went to Saline county, Neb., where he took up a homestead, and continued to cultivate the place until he came to Oklahoma, in decem,ber 1891. Building a hotel in Moore, he named it the Iowa Hotel in honor of his boyhood’s home state. He sytill owns the building, and fo9r several years conducted the hotel, which has long been considered one of the best in this county.
In everything tending towards the advancement of his community’s interests, Mr. Applegate has been an active worker. Popular in the Republican party, he has twice been a nominee for the legislature. The first time, when the election returns showed that he lacked but nine votes of victory, he had been laboring under a disadvantage, as, on account of illness in his family, he had been unable to canvas or aid his ownh cause in any manner. In 1804, when he was known to comparatively few of the voters of this congretional district, his opponent was elected by seven votes majority. For six years he was commander of Moore Post No. 17, G.A.R., and is now acting as its chaplin. Sionce his seventeenth year he has been an active member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and ever since leaving the army has been a great worker in the Sunday-school. He has been associated with the Mission Board, and has organized many schools. For years he was superintendent of Sunday-schools and has long been township president of the work engaged in here. Besides, he is moderator of the Baptist Association and has acted in this capacity for several years.
Though they have no children of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Applegate have been loving parents to seven little ones, two of whom the regularly adopted. Little Frankie Moser Applegate died at the age of three years and seven months. Mattie B. Applegate became the wife of Kenneth McLennan, of Moore township, and has five children as follows: Bessie, Angus A., H. Russell, Gladys, and Ersa A.

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Farmer

Henry married Mary J Chapman 12 Feb 1860, Wayne County, Iowa, USA. Mary (daughter of Isaac M Chapman and Catherine B Pennebaker) was born Jul 1844, Putnam County, Indiana, USA; died 29 Sep 1910, Moore, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Voress Number: 1D1A2E1A
• Residence: 1870, Wright Township, Wayne County, Iowa, USA

Mattie — Kenneth McLennan. [Group Sheet]

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• Voress Number: 1D1A2E1B