Watkins Cemetery
Muscatine County, Iowa

Civil War Veteran
Absalom D. Ames, 16th Iowa Infantry Co. E, Age 22. Residence Muscatine, nativity Ohio. Enlisted Feb. 16, 1862. Mustered Feb. 25, 1862. Missing in action and taken prisoner July 22, 1864, Atlanta, Ga. Mustered out Aug. 10, 1865, Davenport, Iowa.