Abstracted from

Concordia Blade-Empire

Tuesday, January 14, 1936

Front Page Column 2

Short Illness

Takes Life of

James Ijames

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92-year-old Pioneer in

Cloud County Was a

Veteran of the

Civil War

Fought Under Lee

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Served as the Honorary

President of Famous

Ijames  Clans in

1935

James M. Ijames , one of the best known of the remaining Civil War veterans here and a pioneer of Cloud County, died at 12:30 p.m. today at his home, 133 East Elevent Street. 

Born in North Carolina

He was born in Clarksville,N.C. May 4, 1843.  He was conscripted in the Confederate Army in 1862 after two of his older brothers had been killed at the battle of Seven Times, Richmond, VA.  He went into instruction camp at Statesville N.C. then was moved to the battlefront at Richmond.  He joined the Fifth North Carolina Regiment as a recruit at Antietam Creek, Md., seeing active service there, and fought with General Lee at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.

At Gettysburg, he was taken prisoner by the Northern forces and served at prison camps at Fort Delaware and Point Lookout.  When released he returned to his old home to find it plundered and wrecked and a prisoner who had escaped from the Confederate camps taking care of his parents.

Married in Iowa

He went to Montezuma, Ia., and there was married February 22, 1867 to Rachel Cheshire.  In March, 1871 he and his wife with their two small sons, Carry Clyde and Charles Edgar, came to Cloud County, locating on a homestead southwest of Clyde. 

Mrs. Ijames died in 1925 as the result of a fall while visiting in Grinnell, IA.  Surviving Mr. Ijames are these children: Carry Clyde of Topeka; Charles Edgar of Irvington; Willie A.  of Aurora; Alice Cyr of of Clyde; Minnie Walno of Topeka; Clara Peerce(?), Concordia and Dorothy Linsley, of Falls City, Neb.