Jackson County OR Archives Obituaries.....Klippel, Jacob April 16, 1917
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Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Monday, 16 Apr 1917, p. 6, c. 2
Following a serious illness of three weeks Jacob Klippel a well known Medford 
veteran of the Civil war, who was the first man to enlist in the state of 
Illinois at the beginning of that war, died at his home in this city Monday 
morning. The funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock 
at the Weeks & McGowan chapel. The Masons and G. A. R. will have charge and 
Rev. J. C. Rollins will officiate. The burial will be in the Odd Fellows' 
cemetery at Jacksonville. 

Mr. Klippel who was 78 years old and a bachelor is survived by a number of
nephews and nieces in Portland and Medford. He had resided in Medford for
10 years and for 35 years in Oregon. He enlisted for three years at
Springfield, Ill., July 25, 1861, in Co. I, Seventh Illinois Infantry. In
December, 1863, he re-enlisted and served until the war's end, when he was
mustered out as corporal.

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