SGT John C. Applebee
1844 - 1924
Co. G, 52nd Illinois Infantry
CW
John C. Applebee was born January 20, 1844, in Elgin, to Gilbert and Elizabeth (Crabtree) Applebee.
By 1850, the family was farming in Barrington.
John C. Applebee was with the Illinois 52nd Infantry Regiment (also known as the Lincoln Regiment) from the time it was organized at Geneva, Illinois on November 19, 1861 to the end of the war. He was discharged at Chicago, Illinois, on July 12, 1865, attaining the rank of Sergeant. The Regiment took a prominent part in the Battle of Shiloh, losing 170 killed, wounded and missing out of 500 who entered the battle. They also participated in the Siege of Corinth, the Central Mississippi Campaign], the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea, and the Campaign of the Carolinas.
Applebee married Sarah J. Sweeney on November 12, 1867, in Lake County; they raised four children to adulthood on a farm in Barrington.
After his wife’s death, he was occupied as a carpenter in Kane County, before retiring to live with his son there.
Sergeant John C. Applebee died September 25, 1924, in Elgin, and is buried with his wife and parents in Evergreen Cemetery in Barrington.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution