Don Carlos Buell (1818 - 1898)

Born 23 Mar 1818 in Lowell, Washington, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Hunter) Buell — married 19 Nov 1851 in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri

Died 19 Nov 1898 at age 80 in Airdrie, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Don Buell is Notable.

Maj. Gen. Don Buell served with the United States Army during the Mexican-American War
Service Started: unknown
Unit(s): 3rd Regiment of Infantry
Service Ended: unknown

Don was a son of Salmon A. Buell, son of Salmon Buell, and Eliza Buell, daughter of Timothy Buell. He was the grandson of Judge Salmon Buell of Cayuga County, New York. Don was living in Lawrenceburgh, Dearborn, Indiana, with his uncle, George P. Buell, when he was accepted to West Point in 1841. He died in 1898 in Kentucky.

Marriage

Don married Margaret Hunter Mason in 1851.

I hereby certify that on the 19th day of November 1851 in the city and county of St. Louis, Mo. Don Carlos Buell and Margaret Mason were united in holy matrimony according to the law of the State of Missouri and the rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church by ...(copy is too dark to read)^[1]

Civil War

Brigadier general, Vol-May 1861

Major General, Vol-March 1862

Commanded

Department of the Cumberland and the Ohio, November 1861

Obituary

GENERAL BUELL DEAD.

Veteran of Mexican and Civil Wars Succumbs to Long Illness.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL

Rockport, Ky., Nov. 19. - General Don Carlos Buell, one of the conspicuous military officers of Kentucky, died at his home, Airdrie, in this (Muhlenburg) county, after a long illness. He had for several weeks been aware that the end was near and had made all arrangements for the disposition of his effects, even expressing the wish that his remain be buried in St. Louis.

General Buell was 80 years of age and a native of Ohio. He graduated from West Point in 1841. He served in the Mexican and Civil Wars, in the latter being chiefly noted for his work in Kentucky, where, after the war, he laid aside his sword and became identified with this State as a permanent resident. He was a Democrat in politics and was Pension Agent at Louisville during Cleveland's first term.

General Buell passed quietly away at 3 o'clock this afternoon, the end having come slowly, and all being prepared for the final dissolution. Airdrie is some distance in the country from here and details will hardly be received to-night. It is presumed the body will be prepared for immediate shipment to St. Louis, after brief services at the home, but nothing can be learned until to-morrow.

Sources

1. ↑ Missouri Marriage Records, St Louis. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. ancestry.com

• Find A Grave: Memorial #8602
• Don Carlos Buell Wikipedia entry.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZL-YNB : 9 November 2014), D C Buell in household of James F Draper, St. Louis, ward 3, St. Louis, Missouri, United States; citing family 1277, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• 1870 Federal Census; Household of Genl D. C. Buel; Paradise, Muhlenberg, Kentucky Roll: M593_490; Page: 559B; Image: 486; Family History Library Film: 545989
• 1880 Federal Census; Household of D. C. Buell; Paradise, Muhlenberg, Kentucky; Roll: 435; Family History Film: 1254435; Page: 174B; Enumeration District: 140; Image: 0555
• History of the Buell Family in England: From the Remotest Times; available through Google Books
• Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
• Great Civil War Heroes and their Battles, Edited by Walton Rawls, page 36-38.