Henry P. Minton, Frank Minton, and Stella Minton were all teachers living at this address in 1904.
Henry P. Minton, 90, one of the few surviving veterans of the Civil War, died at his home, 823 Irvine Ave., on Sept 5, 1928. Funeral services were held at the home Thursday afternoon at 2:30 with interment following at the Greenwood cemetery. Mr. Minton enlisted in Company A, Eighth regiment of the Peoria cavalry on August 16, 1861. He saw much active service in the fight for the Union and was given an honorable discharge September 14, 1864. He married Mrs. Mattie Minton in December of the same year.
Mrs. Martha E. Minton, wife of H. P. Minton, passed away Feb 5, 1922. Mr. and Mrs. Minton had made their home at 823 Irvine Avenue over the past 20 years. During the past several years, Mrs. Minton was confined to her home by ill health the majority of the time. Mrs. Minton is survived by her husband, a Veteran of the Civil war and a member of the local post of the G. A. R., a daughter, Stella, who has made her home with her parents while teaching in this vicinity, a son, Ernest who lives at Ventura, Iowa, and several other children living in California.
“We stopped at the Minton house on Ninth and Irvine. The same old frame house is still standing, but has been all boarded up for many years. What a shame! It had so much charm. At that spot was the pot at the end of the rainbow for me – the cuckoo clock. How I loved that little bird! Poor Grandmother! I would always make her late getting home from there, begging just one cuckoo, please Grandma.”
The Mintons were an old couple. She was a plump lady and Mr. Minton was frail looking; both had pure white hair. They had one daughter, Stella. She had black hair with corkscrew curls. She let me play with her doll and the trunk full of doll clothes…. After Stella grew up, she wrote stories and sold them. She never married and lived on in the house after the old folks died. Then she sold the house and left. (Memories of Alice Cameron Bowers, North Country, 1989)
Stella Minton appears to have moved between 1942 and 1946. The house was listed as vacant from 1956 to 1982 in the city directories.