The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Wednesday
April 16, 1919
Page 1
Column 1DON CARLOS SALISBURY.
Don Carlos Salisbury died at his home in Ferris, Ill., April 6, 1919, aged 77 years, 5 months and 11 days.
He was born in Plymouth, Ill., Oct. 25, 1841. At 9 years he was left an orphan by the death of his father and was brought up by his cousins, Barnett and Maria Wooley of Colchester, Ill. He became a member of Capt. Smith's cadets at Middleton, now Fandon, in McDonough county, and enlisted with that cadet company in Co. G. 16th Reg. Illinois Volunteers, and served three years and a month, during which service he led a charge on a confederate fort, capturing their flag personally, the flag being now on exhibition to his credit with other captured flags of the Civil War in the flag museum in Springfield, Ill. He suffered injuries in the Civil War which were permanent and made him helpless for the last five years.
After the war he toured the west and returning married Sibian Wyman of Fountain Green, who survives him, with five children and eight grandchildren. The children are Herbert S., of Kansas City; Mrs. J. E. Dean and Albert, of Carthage; Dr. Emma H. S. Peterson of Chicago and Mrs. W. E. Monfort, of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Don C. Salisbury held various township offices in Fountain Green, Pilot Grove, Carthage and Rock Creek townships, was secretary of the Burnside Lodge of Masons several years, and a staunch member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was an Elder in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, his mother, Catherine Smith Salisbury, having been the sister of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, the founders of Nauvoo. When Brigham Young usurped all authority in the Church, and disorganized it she together with the other sisters, brothers and widow of Joseph Smith refused to receive Brigham's false doctrines of polygamy, and remained in Illinois, at the time of the migration to Utah.
Don C. Salisbury's grandfather, Gideon Salisbury, was a soldier in Col. Graham's New York Regiment in the American Revolution. His great grandfather, Solomon Mack of Connecticut was in Israel Putnam's company in the French and Indian War, and afterwards in the Revolution. His great grandfather, Asahel Smith, was a Massachusetts captain at the battle of Lexington in 1775, and Asahel Smith's father was Samuel Smith, chairman of the Topsfield, Mass., tea company and member of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775.
Other ancestors of his were in the Pequot War and King Philip's war, and were Puritan and Scotch Covenanter founders of the New England Colonies.
He was a good neighbor, a progressive citizen and beloved by all who knew him.
