Birth 6 October 1875 in Hastings Dakota Co. Minnesota
Death 7 November 1918 in Chester, Liberty, Montana
Download Dennis Storres’ Life Overview (pdf)
Application to War Dept for a military gravestone
Spanish American War Veteran
A search of US military records for Storres brought up this application to the War Department for a gravestone. On first glance, I saw that Dennis Storres, my father’s great Uncle, died in 1918. I thought, “Oh, so he died in WWI.” A closer look shows that he was not a WWI vet but was a veteran of the Spanish American War. Dennis Storres was living in Montana at the time of his death. My father, Dennis Warren Angland, was named after him.
There is a book about the 15th Minnesota Infantry. Dennis Storres is listed as having been in a private in Company “E” at time of muster out at the end of the war. The book tells of a typhoid fever outbreak at camp in St. Paul and of a mutiny involving 50 or so men. The war ended before the 15th was called over seas. This is notable as there is a family story around a pocket watch with a dent in it that was to have shielded Dennis from a bullet. My brother Tom has that pocket watch. Dennis Storre’s gravestone has him as Col. Dennis Storres, Date of death, Nov. 7, 1916.
Click for larger image
-
- From Story of the 15th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, by T. A. Turner
Fascinating. So, have you found any indication of what he was doing in Montana or who the woman is who made the application for the gravestone? I suppose those discoveries would be harder to make.
I haven’t had time to look into it further yet. A search for the woman who made the application will be the next thing. I’m guessing it was his daughter. It will be fun to take this further and maybe make a connection with some distant cousins.
Turns out, his widow Louise submitted the request for the grave stone. The 1930 census has her living in Chester and remarried to Hugh Cargill. Her two sons, John and Joseph from her marriage to Dennis Storres are living with them.
Sheila, my father Dennis Warren Stores was a twin. His twin sister was Louise, so they the twins were named after their Grandparents. : ). P.S. I knew that STORRS was the original name, but I’ve never seen it spelled STORRES? Mark Stores
Hi Mark,
How great to make a connection to the Stores side of the family. This is exciting!
Having twins run in the Store’s family line. Barbara (Stores) Hendrix had twins. My grandmother was one. The other died in infancy. My Mother miscarried twins and my brother’s wife bore a twin who’s sibling was aborted early in the pregnancy.
I will have to look and see where I got the Storres spelling from.
I have pictures of Elizabeth (Stores) Lynch taken during a visit to my father’s family in Chokio, MN in the early 1900s.
We visited Montana a year ago, see my section titled 3043 Miles in a Model A. It would have been so much fun to visit you.
We are heading out this morning to a weekend gathering at a remote lodge in Ely, MN. I look forward to learning more from you about the Stores family in Montana when we get back home.
Please email me at sheila@chibardun.net.