From the Boone County Recorder, September 29, 1897, Local News of Burlington [courtesy of Philip Naff, Indianapolis, IN]:

"In the death of Mr. Albert Corbin, of Bellevue, on the 21st Inst., the county lost another good citizen. Mr. Corbn had an extensive acquaintance in the county and sorrow will enter the heart of each. He was a man of convictions upon every question, and was outspoken in his advocacy of that which he believed to be right, and there was no deception in his composition. He was a soldier in two wars, having served his country in Mexico, and when the rebellion broke out he espoused the cause of the Southern Confederacy, and was soon among the ranks of the those who marched and fought beneath the stars and bars, remaining at the front until the last hope of sucess faded away. Albert Corbin was a native of this county, and was one of her gallant sons. He was a member of the Sardis Baptist Church at Union, and was a firm believer in the doctrine enunciated by that church, and as long as his health permitted he was one of the most punctial attendants of the membership. A widow, three daughters - Miss Amelia, Mrs. Orlando Snyder and Mrs. D. M. Snyder - and two sons, M. J. and Benjamin Corbin, survive Mr. Corbin. The burial took place from the residence, last Thursday afternoon, after a brief religious service conducted by Rev. T. L. Utz, a neighbor and friend of the deceased, and friends from nearly every neighborhood in the county were present to accompany the remains to their last earthly abode."
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[From Jack Rouse, The Civil War in Boone County, KY, 1996, pp. 129-130.]

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