McPherson Post 33 joined May 24, 1884
Appears to have transferred (not mentioned - possibly to Kansas) with his 2nd term GAR membership in 1896

Wife - Agnes (Stephensen) Cole 1845 - 1926

Enlisted Private, Company M, 1st Missouri Regiment, Light Artillery
Mustered in June 25, 1860, at Chicago, Illinois, with Company M
Mustered out August 23, 1865, 1st Lieutenant, Company A, 1st Missouri, Light Artillery

Elisha & Agnes owned and lived on the farm currently owned by the Evelyn Hacker family (2013) which is at 32193 Hawthorne Avenue southwest of Templeton.

Born in Naples, New York
Died in Paola, Kansas
Son of Ezra and Eliza (Barbour) Cole
Children: Louis, Alice, Katherine, Robert, Florence, Lucy

Elisa Cole
July 23, 1897
Manning Monitor

ELISHA COLE IS DEAD.
A Former Well Known Resident or This Vicinity Passes Away at His Home in Kansas. His Remains will Arrive Here Tonight.

A.T. Bennett received a message yesterday noon announcing the death of Mr. E. Cole at his home near Paolo, Kansas, and that the remains would be shipped to Manning. They will arrive here this Friday evening over the Milwaukee and will be met and taken charge of by McPherson Post, G.A.R., of which the deceased had for many years been a member. The body will be kept here until tomorrow morning, when it will be conveyed overland to Templeton where interment will take place. Further details are not obtainable at this time.

For twenty-six years prior to a year ago last spring, when he moved to Kansas, Mr. Cole resided six miles southeast of this city, in Eden Township. Besides the wife, five children: one son and four daughters survive him.

Obituary.
July 23, 1897
Mr. Elisha Cole died at Paolo, Kansas, July 22, 1897. Funeral services were held there the morning following, and then the remains were shipped to this city, arriving here on the evening of the 23d. Saturday morning the remains, in charge of McPherson Post, G.A.R., and followed by immediate relatives and a few friends, were conveyed to Templeton, where interment took place at eleven a.m.

Mr. Cole was born in Ontario County, N.Y., in 1838, and removed in 1844 with his family to Dodge county, Wisconsin, where he resided until 1860, then enlisting in the Regular Army. In 1861 he was transferred to the Volunteer Army, becoming Orderly Sergeant of Company A, First Missouri Light Artillery, and he continued in the service until the termination of the war. Then returning to his old home in Wisconsin, he was married in 1867 to Miss Agnes Stephenson. In 1868 he moved to Tama County, Iowa, and in 1871 he and his family removed to Carroll county, settling upon the farm in Eden Township owned by him at the time of his death, and, which he occupied until March, 1896. He had been in poor health during the past few years, an old army wound giving him much trouble. Thinking a change of climate might be beneficial, he moved to Paola, Kansas, about a year ago, but instead of getting better he became gradually worse, the complication of troubles causing intense suffering during the last few weeks of his sickness.

Mrs. Cole, a son and four daughters survive and it is thought the family will make their future home in Carroll County, near their many and old time friends.

August 13, 1897
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
McPherson Post, at a special meeting, passed the following resolutions of respect:
WHEREAS, It has pleased Almighty God in his inscrutable providence to remove from our midst. by death, our comrade and brother Elisha Cole, therefore be it
Resolved 1st, That in the death of our Comrade we recognize the loss of a good and faithful soldier of the Republic, a warm personal friend and a tried and true patriot.
2nd, That society has lost a good and loyal citizen, his family a loving husband and a kind father.
3d, That we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved wife and children of our deceased comrade, and while we commend her and them to our God who hath promised to be a husband to the widow and a father to the fatherless, we also pledge them the benefits of our order.
4th, That these resolutions be published in the Manning MONITOR and a copy of the same be transmitted to the family of the deceased.
D.W. SUTHERLAND, Post Commander. J.L. HALL, Adjutant.

Note Manning Cemetery tombstone records: Elisha Cole, 1838-1897; 1st Lieutenant Company A Missouri Light Artillery.