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Jabez is listed in Find A Grave #10523440. He died on 18 January 1898 at 2:15 a.m. from cancer at his family's home at 313 Penny Street, McKeesport, Pa. He spend his whole life in this vicinty, living for many years at Camden. He was a riverman all his life and was well known in Louisville, Cincinnati and in most of the river towns. He was a member of the Masters' and Pilots' association of Pittsburgh and of Allegheny Lodge No. 375. F & A Masons and Vigilant circle, No. 141, Protected Home Circle. He is survived by a wife, one son, John S. and four daughters, Sadie, (Mrs. William Menke, of Homestead), Laura, Minnie and Mabel. (see 18 Jan 1898, McKeesport Daily News obituary).

He was interred at Richland Cemetery, Dravosburg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. Plot: Section A, Lot 298.

He was said to be one of six Union soldiers to carry President Lincoln from Ford's Threatre to the Peterson house afer President Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth.

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