Greenfield Argus 11/16/1906
Milton Alexander Kinkead died at his home in Springfield, Ill., November 13, 1906, aged sixty-five years, four months and one day.
The funeral was held at the family residence yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Chaplin Stevenson, of the G. A..R. post of that city and Rev. J. E. Rogers, officiating. The members of Springfield post, of which the deceased was a member, attended in a body. Interment in Oak Ridge cemetery.
Mr. Kinkead had been ill for several months with cancer of the liver and his death was not unexpected. He had been a resident of Springfield for the last thirteen years. He was born July 12, 1841, in Manchester, Ill. He was an orphan at the age of three weeks and was reared by an aunt. He removed to Greenfield, Ill., at the age of sixteen years and there engaged in farm work and also secured a position as a clerk in a store.
At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in Company D, Fourteenth Illinois volunteer infantry, commanded by Captain Bryant, of Greenfield. He served only a few months, being discharged on account of sickness. At the close of the war, together with Captain Bryant, he engaged in the grocery business at Carrollton. Later he returned to Greenfield, where he pursued the same business. He married Cassandra Saxton in 1864. During his residence in Springfield he had been engaged in traveling for wholesale firms located in Alton, and he followed this vocation up to the time of his illness.
Mr. Kinkead is survived by his wife, four daughters, Mrs. S. E. Skidner, Mrs J. E. Schwartzott, Miss Minnie Kinkead, all of Springfield and Mrs. F. L. Mills, of Streator; four sons, Howard and Guy Kinkead of Springfield, W. A. Kinkead of this city, and Arthur Kinkead, of Irving; also a brother Dr. A. G. Kinkead, and a sister, Mrs Rebecca Mays, both of this city.
Submitted by: Tom Saxton