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From the Malvern Leader, Malvern, Mills County, Iowa 
Thursday November 4, 1937 (pages 1 and 8)
Death Comes to Hon. Elisha Starbuck at His Home Oct. 29
Civil War Veteran and Dean of County Bar Passes
Final rites for one of Mills County's remaining Civil War Vets were performed Sunday when services were held for Hon. Elisha Starbuck at the home of his daughter, Mrs. M. J. Williams, in Glenwood. Mr. Starbuck was in his 98th year and death followed a brief illness shortly after midnight Thursday.
Mr. Starbuck kept in full possession of his faculties up to the time of his death. Thursday afternoon he had strolled about the lawn of his home in west Glenwood where he had resided for nearly 75 years. He became ill in the evening but did not appear critically so until after midnight when he sank into a deep sleep from which he did not waken.
Dr. Long from the Glenwood Congregational church and a long time family friend conducted the funeral services which were held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. A delegation of American Legion members attended the services in uniform, taking their places in the north parlor of the home where the flag draped casket stood, the Legion flag placed on its standard at the foot of the casket and the American flag on the standard at its head. Mary Evlyn Logan played a melody of Civil war day airs preceding the service and a male quartet composed of W. H. T. Wellons, W. H. Rodabaugh, Ben Eaton and Whitney Gilliland sang "Tenting Tonight" and "Abide with Me."
A beautiful and appropriate tribute was paid Mr. Starbuck in Dr. Long's funeral discourse in which Dr. Long stated that Mr. Starbuck's life had been a life of service as a soldier, a citizen and a father. He retained his devotion to the simple Quaker faith inculcated in his life by the early teaching in his family home, and he will long live in the memory of all who knew him by reason of his friendly interest in his fellowmen.

Through his persistent efforts to acquire knowledge and his desire to be of greatest service to the world,
Mr. Starbuck realized his ambition of rising from a country school teacher to a place of honor in his profession of law. Glenwood members of the bar, N. S. and C. T. Genung, Carl and Kenneth Cook, H. M. Logan, Whitney Gilliland, W. H. T. Wellons and Harry Hoffman were honorary pallbearers. The American Legion men served as an escort of honor as the body was taken to the Glenwood Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Clifford Williams, John Crookham, Joe Crookham, Jim Crookham, Leonard Dean and W. L. Daniel. Those in charge of flowers were Mrs. Leonard Dean, Mrs. Jay Tice, Mrs. Whitney Gilliland, Mrs. Edwin Carter and Miss Josephine Daniel. Serving as ushers at the service in the Williams home were Mrs. T. Q. Records, Mrs. Harry Pike, Mrs. Roy Haney and Mrs. C. E. Dean and Mrs. Leonard Dean.
At the cemetery an impressive American Legion service was given by B. N. Maxwell who at its conclusion took the America flag, sent by the United States government, from its place over the casket and presented it to the family as a token of remembrance of appreciation of the government for the service rendered by their illustrious father. A firing squad of six Legionnaires fired the honorary salute of three volleys. The bugler sounded taps and as the body was slowly lowered to its last earthly rest the bugler's echoes came back softly from a distance.

The final obituary was read:
Elisha Starbuck was born at Barnsville, O., April 9, 1840 of Quaker parents. His ancestors settled on the island of Nantucket, Mass., in 1660. The family moved to Ohio in 1801, settling in Belmont County, where Elisha was born. In 1852 he came with his parents to Clark County, Ia., where they located on a farm near Osceola.

Educated in the common schools Mr. Starbuck began teaching at the age of 18. He enlisted in Co. K, 39, "Iowa Infantry," in the fall of 1862 participating in the battles of Dalton, Resaca, Sanke Creek Camp, Altoona and others. He was captured at Parker Cross Road and exchanged after eight months in a military prisoner camp. He was promoted to orderly sergeant and served on important detached duty. July 5, 1865 he was mustered out at Washington after the Grand Review and in the fall of the year returned to Iowa.
He taught school at old Pacific City, three miles west of Glenwood, and resumed the study of law. Admitted to the bar in Mills County in the spring of 1866 he began the practice of his profession in Glenwood. He served four years as county attorney.
On Oct. 1, 1866 he was married to Miss Sarah DeLashmutt, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter DeLashmutt who had settled near Pacific City in 1860. The young couple made their home one mile west of the Glenwood square where were born their three daughters and where Mr. Starbuck has resided for 71 years.
Mr. Starbuck is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Gertrude (M. J. Williams), Mrs. Essie Follett and Mrs. Frances Crookham; by five grandchildren, Clifford Starbuck Williams, Gertrude Colby, Joe Carter Crookham, John Starbuck Crookham, and James Frances Crookham; six great grandchildren, Margaret Gertrude Williams, Marshall James Williams, Charles Colby, Frederick Colby, Frances Crookham and John Starbuck Crookham and by numerous nieces and nephews. 

Birth	9 Apr 1840	Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio
Marriage	14 Oct 1866	Mills County, Iowa - Sarah Louisa DeLashmutt
Census (family)	30 Jul 1870	Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa - Sarah Louisa DeLashmutt
Census (family)	9 Jun 1900	Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa - Sarah Louisa DeLashmutt
Census (family)	5 May 1910	Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa - Sarah Louisa DeLashmutt
Census (family)	13 Jan 1920	Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa - Sarah Louisa DeLashmutt
Death	28 Oct 1937	Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa
Military Service - Civil War		Grand Army of the Republic
Burial		Glenwood Cemetery, Mills County, Iowa

Spouse	Sarah Louisa DeLashmutt (1846 - 1929)
Child	Gertrude Starbuck (1870 - 1948)
Child	Mary Esther Starbuck (1872 - )
Child	Sarah Frances Starbuck (1874 - 1944)

Father	Elisha Starbuck (1800 - 1886)
Mother	Mary Plummer (1809 - 1882)

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