Union Civil War Enlistments from Ipava (Fulton ... - Illinois Ancestors

Civil War Soldiers from
Pleasant Township
(Fulton County) Illinois
Updated February 2012, March 2012, May 2012—These men volunteered for the Civil
War from Pleasant Township (Fulton) Illinois. From research at the National Archives in
Washington, D.C., summaries of pension records have been included. If one of these men
is from your family and you have photographs or additional genealogical information to
include, please contact Janet Turnbull at jturnbul8@gmail.com.
Atherton, James Fletcher—Enlisted 8 August 1861 as a Private, 21 years old, in Cos. A
& H, 28th Infantry. Deserted 26 February 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Charge of
desertion removed 18 February 1913 and changed to honorable discharge. Description at
enlistment: 6’ tall, light hair; grey eyes, born in Sayreville (Noble) Ohio. Died 16
January 1920 in Morton, Mississippi.
Atherton, James Fletcher—1860 US Census, Vermont Township (Fulton) Illinois: Son of
David Atherton (42) and Mary (38). Siblings: Martha A. 15; Finley B. (14); Mary E.
(11); Nancy J. (8); Sarah L. (5); Charles (2) first child born in Illinois. [Nancy J. married
Henry Leslie, a builder of a short line railroad and lived at Gillett, Arkansas. Nancy died
1913 or 1911. In 1923 her son Luther Leslie was in Roseland, Florida. In 1923 Finley
mentioned another sister, Isadora, living in Oklahoma.]
Atherton, James F.—Civil War Pension Application, Department of Veterans Affairs, St.
Louis, Missouri: Born 13 April 1842 at Sayreville (Noble) Ohio. “I left the company at
Brownsville Texas or rather the company left me there. I was out on detached duty and
we were minding stock out on the plains some fifteen or twenty miles from the camp.
The regiment had a lot of stock, or rather the Government had a lot of stock, out on the
prairies, broken down horses and the like, and they had detailed a man out of each
company and regiment to guard this stock, and I was detailed from my company and
while on this detail my company left me, and I never got any discharge from the
company. The commander of the post gave me a certificate that my company and
regiment had disbanded and gone home to be discharged.”—James Atherton, 1913
Married:
1. Elizabeth Johnson, possibly in Louisiana; died in Natchez “soon after the war”
2. Cyntha Tadlock married 10 January 1878; died 9 December 1901
3. Maggie Susan Garner married 17 February 1903 Forrest (Scott) Mississippi
His children: Several children by his first wife, unnamed in the records, and four
children with Maggie Susan Garner: Mary Inez born 13 December 1904 and died at 11
days old; J. Collins born 9 April 1912 and died 12 April 1912; Charles Summer born 19
October 1914; and Ruby Jewel born 3 July 1918.
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Charles S. Atherton, Henry County, Iowa, 1923:
I know of the claimant as the wife and widow of my late brother, James F.
Atherton. He was the oldest of the family. His full name was James Fletcher
Atherton. He must have been 15 to 18 years older than I. I barely remember him.
He was a big man and I remember his coming home on furlough and I was
somewhat afraid of him. He never came home after the war and I never saw him,
to my recollection, but the time he came home from the army on furlough. We
lived at Ipava, Ill at the time he enlisted but later moved to Bernadotte. Father
and my brother, Finley B., were also in the army but I think not in the same
regiment with James F.
James F. Atherton did not return north after his discharge from army but some of
the family was in correspondence with him all the time. I think he fell in love with
his first wife while he was in the army and when he was discharged he remained
there and married her. I am not sure but I believe her name was Cyntha. . . . He
and Cyntha were married some place in Mississippi. Some place but in what
place I do not know. They had two children, and both the children and Cyntha
died of yellow fever, as he wrote to us. I do not know the name of the place where
they died but part of the time he lived with the first wife he got mail at Jackson,
Miss. I think he did a little farming and preaching, I think a Methodist preacher.
I was in Arkansas from about 1878 to 1880 and during that time I corresponded
with him pretty regularly. Now, I am not sure but Cyntha was the second wife.
He was married twice before he married this claimant. I do not think there was
any child by the second wife. He did not write to me of the death of the second
wife, but he did write of her death to our sister, Martha, now dead. . . . he wrote
to my son Carl Atherton, Mediapolis, Ia., and told of his marriage to this
claimant, Maggie, surname not known. He did write to me that they had a child
that was named for me, Charles. . . . I do remember his writing that the first wife
and the two children died of yellow fever and all were buried in one grave.”
Finley B. Atherton, Van Wert (Decatur) Iowa, 1923:
“James Fletcher Atherton, the soldier in the case, was about four years older
than I. We were both born in Ohio and came to Fulton County, Ill, three miles
and a half from Vermont, when I was 8 years old and we lived in the vicinity, but
closer to Ipava, to the time he enlisted. The fourth day of April, 1861, I took
James F. Atherton to Vermont, Ill. to enlist. He enlisted before there was any
fighting going on. The first time he enlisted for three months, then enlisted for
three years and again re-enlisted and I think he served in the same organization
all the time, but I never saw him after the time I took him to Vermont, Ill as I have
stated to you. I corresponded with him until the time of President Hayes’ election
and then he made me a little “huffy” and I never corresponded with him since but
one time, about 8 years ago when he wrote here and asked me to make out an
affidavit for him and I did so and that is the last I heard from him. He wrote me
from Natchez, Miss. . . .”
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Soldier was high tempered and I understood from his comrades that one of the
officers called him a vile name and that soldier knocked the officer down and left
the company, thinking he would be arrested and punished if he remained. At the
time he re-enlisted he was home on furlough but I was then in the army and did
not see him. We expected soldier to return home at the close of the war but I
suppose the reason he did not was on account of striking the officer.
He wrote me that he was married about a year after he left the army, I guess. He
wrote me that he was going to marry a girl down there and afterward wrote that
he had married her. My wife says that soldier wrote me from, Jackson, Miss and
that he told of having a wife and two children but that they all died, leaving him
all alone. Then that he married again. That I got from his parents, and wife says
the second wife died and the last wife he had was 28 years old when he married
her. . . . Wife says the first wife was Matilda Ann and that she and the two
children died. Then he married Cynthia and she died and then he married this
one, name not known.”
Floyd McDonald, Special Examiner, Pension Bureau, 1923:
“It seems that soldier came to Scott County, Miss., in about 1877, and it was then
understood that he was widower, that he had been married and that his former
wife, as well as children by this wife, had all died. He did not marry after coming
to Scott County, Miss., until his marriage to Cynthia Tadlock, on the 3 rd day of
January 1878, and they lived together until her death about December 1901, and
his next marriage was to claimant [Maggie S. Garner].”
Maggie Susan Atherton Easterling [third wife], Coopersville (Scott) Mississippi, 1922:
I was married to the soldier, February 17, 1903, by Judge McCool, at Forest,
Scott County, Miss. I was married to him under the name of Maggie S. Garner,
as this had been my maiden name. He died at our home where we were living
here in Coopersville settlement and on the farm of Mr. Gaddes, on the 16 day of
January 1920. I did not remarry after his death until my marriage to Jesse
Easterling, to whom I was married here near where we now live, in Scott. Co., on
the 16 day of December 1921. I had been married once and only once prior to my
marriage to the soldier, that to Bob Coates, in Scott Co., Miss, in about 1901, but
can not give the exact date. We only lived together for about two months and
separated and then lived apart nearly two years after I applied for and obtained a
divorce from him in Scott County, Miss.
As he [James Atherton] always told me his first marriage was to Elizabeth Crow
and was somewhere in Louisiana, but I can not remember where. I have heard
him speak of Crowville, La. I think it was along the Mississippi river that they
lived and have heard him speak about working on the river at rafting logs but do
not know where. I think solder said there was about 4 or 5 children born to
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Elizabeth while they were living together but that all of them had died and also
his wife, Elizabeth died there in Louisiana and all died with swamp fever. He left
there soon after the death of Elizabeth and their children and as soon as he had
recovered from the swamp fever, which he had at the time of death of his wife and
children and came to Scott Co., Miss., and has always lived here to date of his
death. His second wife was Cynthia Tadlock and he married her here in his
county in about January 1878, and she died in December 1901. No, he did not
have any children by Cynthia, his second wife. Soldier was living at the home of
Frank Bishop, near Morton, at the time of our marriage.
There was 4 children born to me while I was the soldier’s wife. Two are dead and
two living. The two oldest children died and the two younger are living and they
are: Charles Summer Atherton, born Oct. 19, 1914 in Hinds Co., Miss, and Ruby
Jewel Atherton, born July 3, 1918 in Scott County, Miss. Dr. Rube Baugh, of
Polksville, Miss. was with me when Ruby was born and he named her. My mother
Maria Garner and my sister Mary Herald were both with me when Charles
Summer was born.
His pension was based on rheumatism of the back and injury to his foot. “I can now
recall he was afflicted with his back in some way, and then he walked lame in one of his
feet. I have heard of … Mr. Atherton getting one of his feet cut with an axe, and I used to
laugh at Mr. Bishop for calling Mr. Atherton lame or limping Jim. Mr. Atherton has been
a man, as far back as I can remember, who was a hard worker when able, and I have
heard my husband, Mr. Bishop, say that he never knew a more willing man to work than
Mr. Atherton was. He was a poor man and no doubt had to work at times when not able
in order to make ends meet.—Ida Culpepper, 1914.
“About three years ago this winter I was fireing a dry kiln down near Pellahatcha and
while taking a plank off the ramp to pass it up one end of the plank slipped off the ramp
and struck me on the shoulder and in falling under the plank I was injured across my back
and had to throw up my job and leave, but my back had given me trouble long before
this.”—James Atherton, 1914
“I cut my foot while living with my brother-in-law, R. K. Tadlock at Homewood, Miss.
On Friday before the 4 th Sunday in May, 1889, while I was splitting rails I was cutting
with an axe and as I went to strike with the axe it caught to limb of a sapling above my
head, turned the axe in my hand and landed on my left foot and cut my big toe and first
toe next to big toe entirely off, behind the first joint, cut my second little toe nearly off. I
had the second little toe and first little toe sewed back on, losing my big toe entirely, and
the first little toe turned up at the middle joint, causing same to rise occasionally giving
me considerable trouble all the time and keeps me from work a good deal of my time.”—
James Atherton, 1913
Barber, William—Enlisted 8 August 1862 as a Private, 32 years old, in Co. F, 84 th
Infantry. Deserted 5 February 1863 at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Description at
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enlistment: 5’9 ½” tall; brown hair, blue eyes, married. Born in Freeport (Harrison)
Ohio.
Barbour, James B.—Enlisted 24 March 1862 as a Private, 26 years old, in Co. G, 11 th
Cavalry. Reenlisted at Hebron, Mississippi, on 24 March 1864. Mustered out 14 July
1865. Description at enlistment: 5’ 7 ½” tall; auburn hair; grey eyes; coachmaker. Born
21 February 1838 in Cadiz (Harrison) Ohio. Died at Burkett, Nebraska, in the Soldiers
and Sailors Home, 24 February 1917.
James B. Barbour—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Josephine V. Butehu [hard to read] in Hannibal, Missouri, 24 October 1865.
Two children died in infancy. The couple separated and were divorced 18 October 1892.
His residences since the end of the Civil War: 1865-1878 Hannibal & “St. Joe” Missouri;
1878-1880 Lenox, Iowa; 1880-1885 Plattsmouth, Nebraska; 1885-1890 Sedalia,
Missouri; 1891 Denver, Colorado; 1892 Ft. Worth, Texas; 1893-1902 Scott’s Bluff,
Nebraska; 1902-1905 Alberta, Canada; 1905 to 1913 Scott’s Bluff, Nebraska. Nearest
relative at time of death was Wilbur M. Barbour (nephew) of Scots Bluff, Nebraska.
Battin, George Washington—Enlisted 7 August 1862 as a Private, 26 years old, in Co.
B, 84 th Infantry. Transferred to US Veteran Reserve Corp on 1 October 1864 at Camp
Burnside, Indiana. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; black hair; blue eyes; blacksmith.
Born 11 December 1835 in Harrison County, Ohio. Son of Thomas and Mary (Steel).
Married Sarah Ann Chicken in Ipava on 27 February 1861. Second wife was Nancy
Pickering Willis, married 6 September 1866 in Macomb, Illinois. Died 29 August 1917 in
Adair or New Salem Township (McDonough) Illinois.
George W. Battin, Pennington Point Cemetery (McDonough) IL
Civil War Pension Application for George W. Battin, National Archives, Washington,
DC: In 1898 the following children were living: George William born 20 July 1867;
Lida (Chadderdon) born 9 October 1871; Arlie (Griffin) born 3 January 1870; Annie
Daisy (Daugherty) born 1 September 1874; Achsa (Chadderdon) born 31 October 1879.
Since the war he has lived: 1865-1866 Ipava, Illinois; 1866-1906 Table Grove, Illinois;
1906 -1917 Adair, Illinois. He suffered sunstroke during the war.
Bedwell, Benjamin F.—Enlisted 21 March 1864, 19 years old, in Co. H, 28 th Infantry,
Also served in Co. D, 151 st Infantry on 15 February 1865. Mustered out 15 March 1866
at Brownsville, Texas. Description at enlistment: 5’4 ½” tall; light hair, black eyes. Born
Morgan County, Ohio 16 January 1844. Married Nancy Isabelle Kettering on 12 March
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1868. 1 Nancy died 5 July 1911. Benjamin died 20 April 1933 at the Quincy Illinois
Soldiers Home.
Bedwell, Benjamin F.--1880 US Census for Pleasant (Fulton) Illinois: Benjamin Bedwell
(36) farmer; Nancy (32) wife; James M. (11); William J. (8); Frank C. (6); Eva (1).
Benjamin Bedwell Civil War Pension Application—National Archives, Washington, DC:
James B. Cattron testified in 1885 that Benjamin Bedwell worked on the farm of James
P. Montgomery for 3 years, and 2 years before he enlisted he worked and boarded with
Mr. Cattron. O. Garwood testified that Benjamin went to his school during the winters of
1862 and 1863.
Benjamin’s first wife was Nancy Isabell Cattron. They were married 12 March 1868 in
Ipava, Illinois. Their children: James Milton born 29 January 1869 and died 3 June 1945;
William Jesse born 24 June 1871; Frank Cattron born 31 January 1874; Eva Gertrude
born 2 September 1878; Flora Ada born 26 August 1886; Charles born 29 March 1889
and died 20 June 1910; Harry Ross born 17 June 1881; Oren Hammond born 24 January
1895.
In 1914 Benjamin was living in Table Grove (Fulton) Illinois. Married Eliza A. [no last
name] on 8 October 1917 in Macomb, Illinois. They resided at 109 South Crawford St.,
Bushnell (McDonough) Illinois. Eliza wanted her two grown sons to live with them (one
was recently released from Joliet Penitentiary). Benjamin could not tolerate two jobless
men living with them and in 1919 moved out and went to live at the Soldiers Home in
Quincy.
Belford, James H.—Enlisted 28 July 1862, 18 years old, as a private in Co. B, 84 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’ 10 ½” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born in Morgan
County, Ohio. Died 11 October 1863 of wounds received at Battle of Chickamauga on
19 September 1863.
Belless, Walter J.—Enlisted 12 August 1862, 30 years old, as a private in Co. H, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; dark hair; grey eyes; born in Hancock
County, Indiana. Transferred to Invalid Corps on 15 January 1864. Mustered out 1
August 1865 at Cairo, Illinois.
1850 Census, Pleasant, Fulton County, Illinois: Joseph Belless (49) and Catharine
Belless (51). Their children: Elizabeth (21); Walter J. (18); James (15); William (10) and
Amos (6).
Belless, Walter J.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Walter was unmarried. He had a right inguinal hernia with a tumor in the groin measuring
5x4 inches and kidney disease. In 1898 he was 5’7” tall; weighed 135 pounds, and was
67 years old. He lived in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois in 1891.
1 Bedwell Beaux and Belles, Nacogdoches, TX 1972
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Branson, Zebulon—Enlisted 15 August 1862, 44 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; light hair; hazel eyes; married; born in
Clark County, Ohio. Promoted to 2 nd Lt.
Branson, Zebulon—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois: 42 year
old farmer born in Ohio. His wife is Rachel, 40 years old, also born in Ohio. Their
children, all born in Illinois: Isaac (10); Caroline (12); Charles (6).
Branson, Zebulon—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Killed in action near Kenesaw Mountain by a gunshot wound on 27 June 1864. He was
born on 20 June 1818. Married Rachel Brancher (born 10 March 1821) in Sangamon
County, Illinois, on 6 August 1840.
Their children: Unnamed son born 14 June 1841; Caroline born 26 May 1848 and
married name of Brown; Isaac R. born 28 January 1851; Charles M. born 19 July 1853;
Zebulon S. born 25 March 1862; Mary Ann born 7 May 1842; Emily born 29 October
1843 with married name of Carter; John born 17 August 1846; Susan R. born 16
September 1855 and died 4 April 1860; and Henry C. born 24 June 1857 and died 3
September 1859.
Brick, Barton S.—Enlisted 10 May 1864 as a Private, 30 years old, in Co. B, 132 nd
Infantry. Reenlisted 15 February 1865 at Quincy, IL. Mustered out 2 January 1866 at
Columbus, Georgia. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall, brown hair; hazel eyes, married,
carpenter. Born in Hamilton County, Ohio.
Barton S. Brick Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Barton’s first
wife, Ann W. Farquer, died in February 1867. He married Annie E. Carter on 4 June
1868 in Gardner, Kansas. He lists one child born by his first wife—James F. on 4 July
1859. (It was unclear if there were other children.) Barton died on 11 January 1870 in
Black Jack, Kansas. His widow lived on an 80-acre farm, occupied as a homestead with
a mortgage of $500. She owned a cow and a calf and a small amount of household goods
in 1891. In 1892 she lived in Wellsville (Franklin) Kansas.
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Barton S. Brick, Gardner Cemetery, Gardner (Johnson) Kansas.
Courtesy of Sharyn Masters Graham
Brick, George W.—Enlisted 24 March 1864 as a Private, 17 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Mustered out 15 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Description at enlistment:
5’10” tall, dark hair, grey eyes. Born Cincinnati (Hamilton) Ohio on 7 July 1847. Died
on 12 February 1930 in LaPorte (Harris) Texas. Buried in Forest Park Cemetery,
Houston (Harris) Texas.
(used with permission)
George W. Brick, Forest Park Cemetery, Houston (Harris) TX
George Brick Civil War Pension Application—National Archives, Washington, DC: His
father was Thomas Brick, born in Vermont, and his mother was Rachael Frochours born
in Tennessee. In 1913 he wrote: “There is no church record of my birth. I do not know of
any Bible or other family record of my birth. My parents told me that I was born on the
7 th day of July 1847 in Colerain Township, Hamilton County, Ohio. My fathers name
Thomas Brick. My mothers Racheal Brick. I resided with them during years 1850 and
1860 and longer in Pleasant Township Fulton County Illinois.” George was a painter and
a paper hanger.
He married Mary Ann Clannin on 7 November 1867 in Fulton County, Illinois. Their
children: Olive Racheal (married name Morris) born 21 December 1868; Charles M. born
20 January 1871; Mary E. born 8 September 1873; Margaret J. (married name
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Thogmartin) born 13 September 1875; Samuel E. born 8 January 1878; William O. born
15 February 1880. Mary died 6 December 1880 in Jewel County, Kansas.
George’s second marriage (28 May 1882) was to Harriet “Hattie” N. Crutchfield in
Jewell, Kansas. In 1912, George stated that after the war he lived in Fulton County,
Illinois for 5 years, lived in Kansas for 15 years, lived in Saline County, Kansas for 15
years, and lived in Harris County, Texas for 15 years.
Brown, George—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 31 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; dark hair; hazel eyes; married; born in
England. Mustered out as corporal 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.
Brown, George—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
George Brown died at his home in Ipava from chronic diarrhea on 14 September 1865.
His first wife was Sophia Mabb. They were married on 5 September 1849 in Fulton
County, Illinois. After she died, he married Mary A. Clanin in Fulton County on 8 March
1855.
His children by his first wife: Mary Ann born 18 November 1850; and John born 6
August 1854. His children with Mary are: Matilda Rosely, born 2 July 1856; Hanna born
4 April 1857; Lusina Allis born 15 October 1860; George born 29 October 1862 and
William Grant born 23 May 1866.
Brown, Samuel H.—Enlisted 2 October 1862 as 2 nd Lt., 34 years old, in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Promoted to Captain 4 February 1863. Resigned on 1 April 1864. Description
at enlistment: 5’10” tall; light hair, blue eyes, married. Born in Pope Co., Illinois
Samuel H. Brown Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Suffered sunstroke while acting as an artillery guard during a march from Jackson,
Mississippi, to Camp Sherman on the Mississippi River about July 29, 1863. “. . . fell to
ground as the command was halted and were stacking arms. …we took him to the shade
where he lay in unconscious state for several hours . . .”—Deposition by George Bevard
and William Holt, 1881. When Samuel Brown went home on furlough, he saw Dr. J. T.
Ball, who stated in 1881: “He was at that time for him very feeble and I was surprised to
see him looking so used up. He had formerly been very stout and took it very rough.
Lived pretty hard, worked hard and stood the hardships of life as well as any one I ever
knew.”
He married Adaline Littleton in Fulton County, Illinois, either on April 12 or May 1,
1846. He lived in Sullivan County, Missouri, from 1857 through 1860, when he then
arrived in Fulton County, Illinois. He died 14 January 1887 of heart trouble in Mountain
Grove, Missouri. In 1888 Adaline lived in Asherville (Mitchell) Kansas. Her second
husband was Daniel Leas, who had served under Samuel Brown. When he died she
married William B. Sheldon in Lewistown on 19 March 1894. He abandoned her in
October of 1896, and they were divorced on 28 January 1899 in Fulton County, Illinois.
At the time of the divorce, he was worth $10,000. Adaline continued to live in
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Lewistown, dying there on 4 October 1919. She preferred to use the name of Adaline
Brown after her divorce.
Butler, John—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 32 years old, as a corporal in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’11” tall; dark hair; hazel eyes; married; born in
Ripley County, Indiana. Deserted June 1863 at Jackson, Tennessee.
Butler, John—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born
in Ripley County, Indiana. Married Louisa Patterson in Mason County, Illinois, on 13
September 1849. He claimed a disability of heart trouble and lameness in the hip.
Cadwallader, Jesse B.—Enlisted 28 July 1862, 20 years old, as a private in Co. B, 84 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’ 11 ¼” tall; black hair; black eyes; born in Astoria,
Fulton County, Illinois. Died 7 December 1862 at Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Cadwallader, Jesse B.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Jesse was born 7 February 1842. As he was unmarried with no children when he
died of camp fever or typhoid pneumonia at Bowling Green, Kentucky, on 20 November
1862, his father claimed his pension.
Jesse’s mother, Belinda Barrott, married John D. Cadwallader in the Friends Church of
Freeport (Harrison) Ohio. Belinda died on 10 May 1869. His father, John D.
Cadwallader, lived in Ridgeway (Harrison) Missouri. He declared that he was afflicted
with “disease of the kidneys, deafness, and the loss of one eye with a partial loss of the
other.”—1884
Richard Spurrier, a neighbor, stated that he knew John Cadawallader in the fall of 1861
and even before that time: “have known him nearly all his life and know that he was a
man of no means, never accumulated any ahead and seemed to take all his labor to keep
him in sufficient present wants. The reason I know this is that we married sisters.”—
1883
“I think I can say that the family was mainly dependent on their sons—Jesse B. and
Thomas for their support.”—Thomas G. Rook, 1884
John D. Cadawallader died by 1887.
Carithers, John B.—Enlisted 15 August 1861 as Sergeant, 22 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Promoted to 2 nd Lt. on 27 July 1862. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; brown
hair; blue eyes. Born in Fulton Co., Illinois.
Cariters, John B.-- 1860 US Census for Ipava (Fulton) Illinois: Son of Robert (44 years
old). Other family members: John (21), Mary E. (18); William (15); Eli (12) and Louisa
(6).
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Clanin, Thomas I.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 25 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; black hair; dark eyes; married; born Fulton
County, Illinois. Died 5 July 1863 at Haynes Bluff, Mississippi, of congestive chills and
diarrhea.
Clanin, Thomas I.—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois: 22
year old farmer born in Illinois. He and Sarah J. (22) have one child: Melvin (1).
Clanin, Thomas I.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Sarah J. Brown on 6 June 1858 in Fulton County, Illinois. Sarah was born in
Ipava (Fulton) Illinois in 1837. Their children: Benjamin M. born 10 April 1859 and
Oliver P., born 26 December 1860.
Sarah’s second marriage took place on 20 June 1867 to James Lindsey, who died near
Ipava on 9 May 1896. Sarah died 1 February 1922.
Collier, William—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 20 years old, in Co D, 151 st
Infantry. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Description at
enlistment: 5’8 ¼” tall; dark hair; hazel eyes. Born in Pennsylvania in 1845. Died 1899,
and buried at Ipava Cemetery, Section 16, Fulton County, Illinois.
Collier, William—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born 14 November 1845 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Married Caroline (Carrie) M. Ball
in Palmyra (Marion) Missouri on 4 August 1866. Their children: Frank T. born 7 July
1867; Dan B. born 27 October 1868; Edward L. born 19 March 1870; David W. born 10
August 1872; Fred E. born 18 January 1875; and Harry H. born 30 November 1878.
Suffered from chronic diarrhea and he effects of a severe gun shot wound of both legs at
Altoon [Allatoona] Pass, Georgia, the “buckshot remaining in his body to this day
[1899].”
He resided in Gillett, Arkansas, but died in Winchester, Illinois on 17 September 1899.
Carrie died in 1909.
Cooney, George—Enlisted 6 September 1861as a Private, 20 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Promoted to Corporal. Discharged on 4 September 1864 at Natchez,
Mississippi due to term expiration. Description at enlistment: 5’7 ½” tall, light hair, blue
eyes, teacher. Born in Huntington Co., Pennsylvania.
Cooney, George—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born 3 July 1845 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Married Martha A. Hannumm on 18 February
1864 in Fulton County, Illinois. Their children: Mare born 17 November 1871; Henry
Grant born 21 November 1864; and Carrie L. born 14 January 1882 (Mrs. Clarence B.
Strickland in 1908).
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George Cooney received a gun shot wound to the head on 5 October 1865 at the Battle at
Hatchie River, Tennessee while engaged with the enemy. He was taken prisoner after the
battle of Jackson Mississippi in 1863 and confined at Belle Island, Virginia.
He lived in Fulton and McLean counties, Illinois. He was partners with Ephraim
Edwards in a grocery business in McLean County, Illinois. George Conney died 27
August 1907 in McLean County. In 1940 Martha lived with or near her daughter Carrie,
dying in Omaha, Nebraska on 7 November 1940. Her address in Omaha was 3215
Hamilton Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
Coons, Henry—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 27 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; light hair, blue eyes; born in Indiana. Died
21 July 1921 in Marietta, Illinois, at the age of 86.
Coons, Henry—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born 25 May 1835 in Adams County, Indiana. His parents were David Coons and Sarah
Cox of Ohio. Henry married Lucy Dodge on 5 January 1872 in Fulton County, Illinois.
Their children: Emma M. born 26 December 1875 and Nellie born 20 May 1882.
Henry was wounded at the Battle of Mission Ridge on 25 November 1863. The gunshot
wound caused his left leg to be amputated between the knee and the foot.
Henry died 21 July 1921 in Marietta, Illinois. Lucy died 22 August 1925.
Cooper, Marcellus T.—Enlisted 24 March 1864 as a Private in Co. H, 28 th Infantry.
Mustered out 15 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Son of Lebin and Eleanor Ann
(Ralph). Born 10 January 1846 in Fulton County, Illinois. One of twelve children. Died 1
November 1924 at Ipava (Fulton) Illinois. Buried at Ipava Cemetery, Fulton County,
Illinois.
Cooper, Marcellus T.—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois:
Son of Levin Cooper, 53 year old farmer and Eleanor (50). Their children: Irena (21);
William (20); Macy A. or Mary A. (16); Marcellus (14); Perry (10); Philetus (7); and
Columbus (12).
Marcellus Cooper Civil War Pension Application—National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Artha I. Littleton at Ipava on 28 October 1869. Marcellus stated that he has
always lived in Ipava. Their son: William Taylor Cooper, born 12 September 1870 and
died 1968.
Rev. Marcellus T. Cooper—He was in the siege of Spanish Fort, and spent most of the
time in garrison duty, spending nine months in Texas and nine months in Mississippi.
Mr. Cooper owns 120 acres of fine farming land. For the past thirteen years he has been
engaged in ministerial work, and at the present writing [1879] is pastor of the Christian
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Church at New Howard, this state. In politics he is in sympathy with the Republican
party, and as an intelligent and kindly Christian man has won many warm friends 2 .
Used with permission
Cope, William V.—Enlisted 28 July 1862 as a Private in Co. B, 84 th Infantry. Mustered
out 8 June 1865 at Camp Harker, Tennessee. Description at enlistment: 5’7 ½” tall, light
hair, grey eyes. Born Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Cope, William V.--1860 US Census for Ipava (Fulton) Illinois: Son of Margaret J. Cope
(43). Other family members: Maria E. (19); Martha E. (17); Rachel (13) and Lafayette
F. (11).
Cope, William V.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Mary A. Frisbie or Frisby in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois on 10 October 1867.
His pension was based on asthma, a rupture of the lower abdomen, and rheumatism.
William died 19 May 1896 in Cooksville (McLean) Illinois, wounded by a knife which
severed the femoral artery. Mary died 27 November 1914.
Cramblet, Jesse—Enlisted 28 July 1862 as a Private, 29 years old, in Co. B, 84 th
Infantry. Mustered out 8 June 1865 at Camp Harker, Tennessee. Description at
enlistment: 5’10” tall; dark hair, blue eyes. Married, born Guernsey County, Ohio. Died
18 October 1882. Buried in Ipava Cemetery, Section 16, Fulton Co., Illinois.
From History of Fulton County, Illinois: 3 Jesse Cramblet, barber, Ipava, son of William
and Elizabeth C., was born in Ohio July 26 [18]33; his father died when he was young,
2 Refers to History of Fulton County, Illinois: Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and
Townships; Educational, Religious, Civil, Military and Political History; Biographies of Representative
Citizens. Charles C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879. page 493, 494.
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and he first became engineer, and in 1862 enlisted in Co. D, 84 th Ill, Inf.; served 3 years;
was in battles of Perryville, Buzzard Roost, Franklin, Nashville and many others; was
married in Ohio Oct.6, [18]52 to Elizabeth Chicken, who was born in Ohio Nov. 24,
1834.
Jesse Cramblit Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Eleanor Chicken 6 October 1853 in Harrison County, Ohio. Eleanor stated
“… my husband was of a very jovial turn of mind . . .” (1886). No children. Jesse died
18 October 1882. Eleanor died 19 April 1903.
David, Isaac—Commissioned in Co. D, 151 st Infantry on 18 February 1865, 43 years old
as Captain. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Ohio. Description at
enlistment: 5’6” tall, brown hair, grey eyes, merchant. Born in Freeport (Harrison) Ohio
24 January 1822. Died 22 February 1906. Buried at Ipava Cemetery, Fulton County,
Illinois.
David, Isaac-- Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Mary Ann Green on 18 May 1843 near Astoria (Fulton) Illinois. She died 29
December 1895. Two children were living in 1895: Ruth born 15 April 1844 and Hattie
S. Hennick born 8 February 1857. He stated that he farmed for four years after the war,
but rheumatism prevented him from continuing. He started doing clerical work.
In the matter of Pension Claim No. 695800 of Isaac David, late captain of Company D
151 st Illinois Infantry Volunteers, personally came before me Vincent M. Grewell aged
77 years whose residence and Post Office address is Ipava Fulton County Illinois, and
Daniel L. Easley aged 67 years whose residence and Post Office address is Ipava Fulton
County Illinois, well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit. That they have
been intimately acquainted with said soldier for 53 years and 55 years respectively and
they now have before them what purports to be the family Bible of Henry David and Ruth
David the parents of said soldier in which the following record of births appear:
Daniel David, son of Henry David and Ruth David, his wife was born August 11 th 1816
and died September 1, 1816
John was born September 10 th 1817
William was born December 6 th 1819
Isaac was born January 24 th 1822
Rachel was born March 4 th 1824
Daniel was born April 20 th 1826
Easley was born June 23 rd 1828
Edith Ann was born May 30 th 1831
Henry F. was born July 26 th 1833
Rees was born April 25 th 1836
Mary was born December 28 th 1839
3 Refers to History of Fulton County, Illinois: Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships,
Educational, Religious, Civil, Military and Political history: biographies of representatives citizens. Charles
C. Chapman & Co, Peoria, Illinois, 1879. page 853.
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Dobbins, John Calvin—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a musician, 27 years old, in Co.
D, 151 st Infantry. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Description at
enlistment: 5’8” tall, auburn hair, hazel eyes. Born in Illinois. Occupation: mail carrier in
Kansas City, Missouri. Married to Catherine [no maiden name]. Died Leavenworth,
Kansas on 5 November 1924.
Dobbins, John Calvin—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Born 4 November 1844 in Fulton County, Illinois, according to the family Bible.
Married Katherine Henderson Lindsay at Ipava (Fulton) Illinois on 13 November 1867.
Katherine was born in Brook County, West Virginia, to Elisha Lindsey and Elizabeth
Pennington. Her brother was Richard P. Lindsay of Sidney (Fremont) Iowa in 1924. She
also had a sister living in Chariton (Lucas) Iowa-- Sharon P. Yost--in 1924.
Their children: Fred Evert born 27 April 1872 and Bessie Aldean Russell born 21
February 1877.
John’s pension was based on rheumatism and heart disease.
In 1865 the family moved to Creston, Iowa, then 2 years at Chariton, Iowa. John was a
letter carrier. In 1924 they lived at 5317 Harrison Street, Kansas City, Missouri.
John died 5 November 1924 at the National Military Home at Leavenworth, Kansas.
Katherine died 29 October 1940 in Cambridge (Henry) Illinois. Burial at Sidney
Cemetery, Sidney (Fremont) Iowa.
From History of Fulton County, Illinois: 4 (regarding his parents)—John C. Dobbins,
retired farmer, son of Robert P. and Catharine A., was born in Ohio March 27, [18]11;
Capt. of militia in Ohio; came to Illinois in 1836 and settled in this county, has been
School Trustee and Director and Township Assessor, and connected with the U.G. R.R.
In Ohio, in 1834, he married Hannah A. Miller, who was a native of that state. They
have had 8 children; the 4 boys who are living are Robert L., John C., Abler N., and
David T. Mr. D. had 4 sons in the late war, and lost 2 of them there. He resides in
Ipava.
Dobbins, Robert L.—Enlisted 1 September 1861 as a Private, 19 years old, in Co. H,
28 th Infantry. Promoted to Corporal. Reenlisted at Natchez, Mississippi, on 15 February
1864. Mustered out 15 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Description at enlistment:
5’7” tall, brown hair, black eyes. Born in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois, on 22 November 1842,
the son of John O. and Harriett (Miller). Died 12 November 1919 in Lewistown, Illinois.
Buried in Ipava Cemetery, section 16, Fulton County, Illinois.
4 Refers to History of Fulton County, Illinois: Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships,
Educational, Religious, Civil, Military and Political history: biographies of representatives citizens. Charles
C. Chapman & Co, Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 854.
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Dobbins, Robert L.--Civil War Pension Application—National Archives, Washington,
DC: Married Barbara Ann Etnire on 9 November 1865 in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois. In
1901 Robert was a carpet weaver in Astoria. His father was John O. Dobbins, born in
Ohio, and his mother was Harriett Miller, also born in Ohio.
Easley, Daniel M.—Enlisted 15 August 1861 as a Private, 18 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Reenlisted 5 January 1864 at Natchez, Mississippi. Mustered out 15 March
1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Description at enlistment: 5’5 ¾” tall, light hair; blue eyes.
Born in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois. Died 27/28 June 1880 in Golden, Colorado.
Daniel M. Easley Civil War Pension Application—National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Rhoda June Kinsey who died on 25 November 1867; and second wife was Sarah
A. Harris, married on 27 May 1873 in Kansas. Daniel’s mother died of consumption
when he was 3 to 5 years old, and his father died of “lung trouble” at 40 years of age.
Both died near Ipava. Daniel had 3 brothers. Daniel and wife Rhoda had one child; Bina
June born 21 November 1867 (married name Hutton). He and his second wife had the
following children: Ollie G. born 17 September 1875 (married name Carson); Lora D.
born 7 November 1879; Eugene born 3 April 1874 and died 10 September 1874; and
Mary Viola born 8 October 1877 and died 15 September 1880. In 1880 Daniel went to
Colorado. After his discharge in 1866, Daniel took a trip to Canada, and in the summer
of 1866 settled in Cherokee County, Kansas.
Daniel M. Easley, Golden Cemetery,
Golden (Jefferson) Colorado. Courtesy of Scotti McCarthy
Easley, Daniel L.—Enlisted 28 July 1862 as a Private, 30 years old, in Co. B, 84 th
Infantry. Mustered out 8 June 1865 at Camp Harker, Tennessee. Description at
enlistment: 5’8” tall; auburn hair; hazel eyes, born in Freeport (Harrison) Ohio, on 27
September 1831. He had been wounded in the battle of Pittsburg Landing in April 1864.
Died 1 January 1918 at Soldiers Home, Illinois, cottage 16. Burial Ipava Cemetery
(Fulton) Illinois.
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Easley, Daniel L.--Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Mary Jane Thompson 15 March 1855 in Bernadotte Township, Fulton Co.,
Illinois by Reece Cadwalder. “During the battle of Chickamauga Tenn I contracted
disease of kidneys by carrying an overload of ammunition.” (1877). “We all had all we
could do that day on the battlefield and more to and I presume under the excitement and
hurry D.L. Easley was injured as above stated in his back” –V.M. Grewell, Capt. 84 th .
“I was never treated in hospital. I preferred to remain with my comrades when I could
possibly march.” Daniel also suffered scurvy and heart disease in addition to a severely
injured back. He had no living children by 1888. His nephew was C.B. Robinson.
Easley, John R.—Enlisted 15 August 1861 as a Private, 17 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Promoted to 1 st Sgt. Reenlisted 5 January 1864. Promoted to 2 nd Lt. 29 July
1865. Mustered out 15 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Description at enlistment: 5’6
¾” tall, dark hair, brown eyes, born in Ipava, Illinois. Died 17 April 1927 at Cape
Girardeau, Missouri. Burial at Fairmount Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Easley, John R.—Missouri Death Certificate: Address at time of death, April 17, 1927,
was North Main Street, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Widowed. Born 20 February 1844 in
Ipava, Illinois. His father was Daniel Easley, who was born in West Virginia. Died of
chronic Bright’s Disease.
Easley, Mark—Enlisted 28 July 1862 as a Private, 18 years old, in Co. B, 84 th Infantry.
Promoted to Corporal on 1 May 1864. Mustered out 8 June 1865 at Camp Harker,
Tennessee. Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall, auburn hair, hazel eyes. Born in Fulton
County, Illinois. Died 28 March 1931 in Industry, Illinois.
Easley, Mark B.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born 24 July 1844 in Farmers Township (Fulton) Illinois. Married Sarah Jane Chipman
in Schuyler County, Illinois, on 25 November 1866. Sarah was born 11 December 1848.
He claimed having had a cough and typhoid fever in the army, which led to heart disease
and rheumatism. “On November 24, 1863, Private Mark B. Easley, a member of Co. B.
84 th Reg. Ill. Vol. Inf., was ordered with the Company to cross a small body of water 60
to 80 paces in width and 3 to 4 feet deep and very cold: remaining on the opposite bank
for 3 or 4 hours in mud and water over the shoe tops. Then in the afternoon I was
ordered to take my Company with two other Companies of 84 th Regt,. and rebuild a
bridge over Lookout Creek and in this work said Private Easley was in the water quite
often and had his clothes very wet until 9 p.m. when relieved from duty to get clothes
dried. Soon after this exposure he began to suffer with Rheumatism and was excused
from duty from time to time. Again on Jany 1 st 1864 my Company was exposed to severe
storm and from that time until the time of muster out he had more or less trouble with
rheumatism. He was a good faithful soldier.”—Lemuel L. Scott, 1891
Wallace R. Knock stated, “we were boys to gether before wee went in to the Armey and
after we returned was to gether the grate part of the time at work or play up to 1868 . . .”
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Mark Easley’s children: Henry, born 27 August 1868; Emma R. born 25 April 1869 and
in 1915 was Emma France; Ida A. born 19 May 1871; Franklin born 20 February 1873
and died by 1898; Fred C. born 18 March 1874; Charles C. born 5 July 1876; Phoebe J.
born 8 August 1878; Luther M. born 20 February 1883; Gale J. born 22 November 1886;
and Ralph R. born 13 November 1892.
Photograph courtesy of Don Hengen
Mark Easley,
Farquhar, Isaiah W.—Enlisted 28 July 1862 as a Private, 22 years old, in Co. B, 84 th
Infantry. Promoted to Sergeant on 1 November 1864. Mustered out 8 June 1865 at
Camp Harker, Tennessee. Description at enlistment: 5’5 ¼” tall, auburn hair, blue eyes.
Born Jefferson Co., Ohio.
F arquhar, Isaiah W.--1860 US Census for Ipava (Fulton) Illinois: Son of Elisabeth (48);
other family members are Susannah (19); Sarah (13) and William S. (10).
Farquhar, Isaiah W.-- Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Married Mary J. Clannin 1 February 1866 in Table Grove (Fulton) Illinois. Two
children: Sarah E. born with the help of Eleanor Stropes on 18 December 1876; and
Harry born 19 February 1874.
Isaiah got a hernia in the line of duty while assisting artillery over Wild Cat Mountain in
Kentucky in October 1862. In 1866 resided in Blue Mound Township (McLean) Illinois;
1879 moved to Towanda (McLean) Illinois. Died 18 April 1888.
Fleming, Jacob—Enlisted 25 September 1861, 20 years old, as a Private in Co. G, 50th
Infantry. Promoted to Corporal, Sergeant, 1 st Lt., and Captain. Mustered out 1 May
1865. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; dark hair, grey eyes. Born in Shulesburg,
Pennsylvania. Died 20 February 1920 in Eureka, Illinois.
Fleming, Jacob—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born 2 June 1841 in Bells Mills (Huntington) Pennsylvania. Married Susan D. Hughes at
Abingdon, Illinois, on 28 January 1864. Jacob’s father was John Fleming. His brother
was William Fleming of Bloomington (McLean) Illinois. At the time of enlistment, his
post office was Ipava.
Their children: Fred E. born 13 August 1867; Joe B. born 16 February 1869; Mary E.
born 27 December 1870; Ida H. born 3 November 1872; Robert H. born April 23, 1881;
John Roy born 3 June 1877; Jessie G. born 14 November 1884; Margaret born 3 August
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1879; Bernadine born 4 October 1886; Ollie E. born 11 May 1866 and died 31 May
1866; and Charles A. born 25 January 1876 and died June 5, 1876.
The family lived in Ipava from July 13, 1865 until February 20, 1867, when they moved
to McLean County, Illinois. In September 1891 they moved to Eureka, Illinois. He
suffered from disease of the stomach and liver, and catarrh. Jacob died 20 February 1920
in Eureka, Illinois. His wife, Susan, died 8 January 1934.
Fleming, Samuel—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 20 years old, in Co. D, 15
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6 ½” tall; auburn hair, grey eyes. Born in
Pennsylvania. Died 15 April 1865 at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, of disease. Burial at
Stones River National Battlefield, site 1465, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
France, Brice H.—Enlisted 7 August 1862, 23 years old, as a private in Co. F, 84 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’5 ½” tall; black hair; hazel eyes; born in Pleasant
Township, Fulton County, Illinois. Wounded at Chickamauga 19 September 1863.
Mustered out 8 June 1865 at Camp Harker, Tennessee.
France, Brice H.—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois: Son of
Hannah France, a 44-year old farmer born in Ohio. Her children: Hosea (20); Rebecca A.
(22); William R. (24); Brice H. (21); Mary E. (16); Orvil (14); Albert R. (3); and Zack F.
(1). ). [As his father died in 1852, the two youngest may not be Hannah’s children.]
France, Brice H.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Mary Hurd in Montezuma (Poweshiek) Iowa on 31 December 1868. She was
born 22 November 1836 in Merricksville, Canada. Nelson and Theda Hurd of Webster
County, Nebraska affirmed they knew Mary since childhood.
Their children: Frank born 21 January 1870; Blanch born 21 December 1871; Beryl born
July 1874; and Jesse born 29 February 1876.
He suffered a rupture in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on 15 April 1863. “While raising a
log in building a breastwork was struck by a lever in the part of the abdomen which
immediately caused the rupture.” His left little finger was amputated on 26 June 1864 at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, as a result of the gun shot wound.
In 1867 Brice moved to Keokuk, Iowa. 1882 found them in Cowles (Webster) Nebraska.
Brice died 31 December 1906 of “heart failure due to wasting away of tissue as a result
of chronic rheumatism and two years of confinement to his bed.”—Thomas Hall, M. D.
1907. At his death, Mary had a farm of 160 acres and a small amount of household
goods. Her total income in 1906 was $50. In 1908 she stated that her total share of the
crop on the farm was: corn 120 bushels; oats 50 bushels; hay 13 tons. This equaled a
cash value of about $72.
Mary died 20 February 1920.
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France, Isaac C.—Enlisted 21 August 1862, 19 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; born in Pleasant
Township, Fulton County, Illinois. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.
France, Isaac C.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born 2 ½ miles south of Ipava (Fulton) Illinois on 9 March 1844. Married Harriet Warren
Dulseny in Sullivan County, Missouri, on 24 September 1868. Their living children in
1898: Artha Addis (or Iva) born 8 December 1869, whose married name was Walsh and
lived in Bowdon, North Dakota; Sarah C. born 31 October 1871 and died by 1915; and
Firman born 19 August 1877.
Isaac claimed the effects of chronic diarrhea gotten while in Camp Sherman on the Black
River in Mississippi in August, 1863. He injured his left leg at New Hope Church in
June of 1864, when hit by a “spent ball above the ankle making a severe but not a
dangerous wound.”—John C. Hellyer, 1898.
In 1865 the family moved to North Center, Missouri, where he worked as a mill hand for
thirty years, and returned to Fulton County, Illinois in 1895. In 1923 he and his wife
were living at the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Quincy, Illinois. “My father was
transferred from soldiers home at Quincy, Illinois to the asylum at Jacksonville, Illinois
some time during this last spring.”—Artha Walsh, 1926.
Isaac died 28 December 1927.
Isaac France’s birth information from pension file
France, Michael—Enlisted 21 August 1862, 26 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; light hair; blue eyes; married; born
Pleasant, Fulton County, Illinois. Died January 1864 of chronic dysentery in Memphis,
Tennessee. He was charged with desertion, but that was removed and changed to sick at
home.
France, Michael—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Juda Brown in Kahoka (Clark) Missouri on 21 September 1857. Their child was
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Arrilla born 6 July 1860. Arrilla’s married name was Connelly of Lynch, Nebraska in
1919.
After Michael’s death, Juda married Hosea France in Fulton County, Illinois, on 2 June
1864.
Juda listed her brothers and sisters: Mary Ann, born 1834; Sarah Jane born 5 June 1837;
Juda born 14 July 1840; and William born 1842. Her family lived in Ipava in 1850 and
1860. She lists Michael France’s aunt and uncle as Jesse France, who died 10 October
1852 and Hannah France.
Hosea France died 3 October 1916. In 1917 Juda lived at 816 4 th Avenue, Bluffs, Iowa,
and later that year in Lynch (Boyd) Nebraska. Her daughter, Arrilla, informed the
Pension Board that Juda died of an accidental death on 20 June 1919.
Juda Brown France’s gravesite, Photograph courtesy of Elaine Cecil
France, Robert—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 27 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; black hair; dark eyes; born in Pleasant
Township, Fulton County, Illinois. Deserted 27 January 1863 at Jackson, Tennessee.
France, Robert—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
His request for a pension was rejected based on the record of desertion. He appealed:
“I was taken prisoner near Jacksonville, Tennessee, on or about the 14 th day of January
1863, while out foraging; was taken to Woodbury, Tennessee, where I was paroled by
Gen. Forrest; was sent from there to Paducah, Ky and staid at soldiers home for three
weeks; went from Paducah to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; the smallpox was prevailing
at the Barracks at the time, and I was sent home for fifty days, unless sooner called for;
at the end of forty days, I was ordered back to Jefferson Barracks, where I remained until
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the middle of April 1864; was sent from Jefferson Barracks to Cairo, where I did duty
under Col. Walters, until the 24 th of May 1865, when I was dismissed from the service,
but did not get my discharge.”—Robert France, 1880
When the pension inspector asked for a character reference, one of the town doctors, Dr.
H. L. Ball, wrote: “France has a very poor reputation. He may be entitled to a pension,
but he would have to prove that he did by someone beside himself before he would be
believed where he is known.”
Robert France lived in Maukato (Jewell) Kansas in 1884, and was in Montrose (Jewell)
Kansas in 1890.
France, William Riley—Enlisted 21 August 1862, 26 years old, as a private in Co. I,
103 rd Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; born in
Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois. Died 21 January 1864 of bronchitis in a
hospital at Memphis, Tennessee.
France, William Riley—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois:
Son of Hannah France, a 44-year old farmer born in Ohio. Her children: Hosea (20);
Rebecca A. (22); William R. (24); Brice H. (21); Mary E. (16); Orvil (14); Albert R. (3);
and Zack F. (1). [As his father died in 1852, the two youngest may not be Hannah’s
children.]
France, William Riley—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: As he was unmarried and had no children, his mother, Hannah (maiden name of
Bryce from Ohio), was able to claim a pension. His father, Jesse, had died 10 October
1852, and since then his mother was dependent upon William for support. “William
worked by the month for Henry Harwick, about two years prior to entering said service,
and all his wages, except that necessary for himself, was taken up by his mother in flour,
corn, wheat, beef and other provisions. [He] hauled her wood ever since the death of her
husband. That affiant Henry at request of said William paid Dr. Ball of Ipava a bill of
$24 for medical treatment of his mother—that William worked with affiant to pay a debt
which his mother had contracted for provisions in addition to the above.”—Henry and
Sarah Harwick, 1864.
Green, Jonathan Bogue—Enlisted 5 August 1862 as a Sergeant, 21 years old, in Co. B,
84 th Infantry. Promoted to 1 st Sergeant and Sergeant Major. Mustered out 8 June 1865.
Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall, auburn hair, blue eyes, student. Born in Astoria
(Fulton) Illinois. Died on 12 April 1912 in Sioux City, Iowa.
Green, Jonathan Bogue--1860 US Census for Ipava (Fulton) Illinois: Son of Aaron
Green (47) and Mary (38). Other family members: Adolphus (4); Ethelda (2); John N.
(10).
Green, Jonathan Bogue—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: His mother’s maiden name was Bogue. Born 7 March 1841 in Ipava (Fulton)
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Illinois. Married Sallie Raymond in Champaign, Illinois on 14 June 1871. Their
children: Nathaniel Raymond born 9 August 1872; Marianne born 25 September 1874;
Josephine M. born 2 January 1879; and Fannie Jane born 28 April 1887.
In 1865 the family lived in Fulton County, Illinois, moving to Abingdon (Knox) Illinois
in 1866. They lived in Champaign County, Illinois for 27 years, and Fayette County,
Illinois for 10 years. In 1906 they were in Ramsey (Fayette) Illinois. In 1912 their
address was 2718 Jones Street, Sioux City, Iowa. He was a banker in 1904.
Jonathan Bogue Green died in Sioux City (Woodbury) Iowa on 12 April 1912. He is
buried in Champaign County, Illinois. Sallie died 1 December 1919.
Hall, Noah—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 32 years old, in Co. D, 151 st
Infantry. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Description at
enlistment: 5’7 ¾” tall, brown hair, grey eyes, blacksmith. Born in Ohio on 20 December
1832. Died 10 April 1903. Burial at Ipava Cemetery (Fulton) Illinois.
Hall. Noah--Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Rebecca Price (1835-1913) in Freeport (Harrison) Ohio, on 28 December 1854.
Their children: Emma A. Sperry born 16 May 1856; Arminda Etnire born 29 November
1859; Mary Elizabeth Connel born 12 August 1860; William Creighton born 10 August
1863; Maggie Mastin born 3 September 1869; and Jessie Kline born 19 July 1874.
Noah was a blacksmith in Ipava in 1892. On Christmas day in 1890 he suffered paralysis
of his right arm and “it is but little use to me now. Can’t walk hardly from rheumatism,
stumble over any little thing. Can’t lean over . . . Side of neck, on right side, hurts me
now [1896].” The doctor “found right arm atrophied . . . This disability is the result of a
paralysis which struck him 5 or 6 years ago while handling the hammer at the anvil. (He
has been a blacksmith.) Had to quit work.”
Hanna, Franklin—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 18 years old, in Co. D, 151 st
Infantry. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Description at
enlistment: 5’5” tall, dark hair, hazel eyes. Born in Kentucky.
Hedger, Lem—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 21 years old, as a teamster in Co I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; brown hair; hazel eyes; born in Franklin
County, Pennsylvania. Deserted July 1863 while on sick furlough.
Highland, William A.—Enlisted 28 July 1862, 32 years old, as a private in Col B, 84 th
Illinois Infantry. Description at enlistment: 6’ tall; red hair; gray eyes; married;
carpenter; born in Lessburgh (Cumberland) Pennsylvania. Promoted to sergeant
1 November 1862; to 1 st sergeant 24 October 1864.
Highland, William A.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Born in Pennsylvania. Married Harriet Elizabeth Plattner in Lansing (Ingham)
Michigan on 23 July 1853. Their children: John W. B. born 29 March 1854 in Whitley
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County, Indiana; Mary Martha born 7 December 1859; and Frank W. A. Vincent born 1
January 1862.
William Highland died of consumption at his home on 19 June 1865. It was determined
that he contracted the disease while in the army. He was given sick furlough at
Nashville, Tennessee, on 5 May 1865.
Harriet moved to Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. She died 4 December 1903.
Hillyer, Thomas B.—Enlisted 28 July 1862, 23 years old, as a private in Co. B, 84 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6 ¼” tall; dark hair; blue eyes; born Noble County,
Ohio. Transferred to VRC 28 April, 1864.
Hillyer, Thomas B.—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois: Son
of John Hillyer (45) a farmer born in Ohio, and Margaret (45) born in Pennsylvania.
Their children: Thomas (22) born in Ohio; John (18); David (16); Nancy (12) and Milton
(9).
Hillyer, Thomas B.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Married Nancy J. Hager on 15 June 1864 in McDonough County, Illinois. She died
18 September 1876 near Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois of cancer. On 28 February 1878 in
Montgomery County, Missouri he married a cousin, Mary A. Hillyer.
His living children in 1897: Mary Dowing born 22 July 1866; William Sherman born
September 1867; Cora born June 1874; Howard born June 1881; and Harry born
September 1884.
On 20 December 1862 in Nashville, Tennessee, he was “helping to throw wood on a
wagon for use in camp. I was ruptured on the right side. The regimental surgeon, Dr.
Kyles, put a bandage about my lower abdomen with some cotton next to the rupture . . .
and sent me to the hospital . . . I remained in the hospital until transfer to VRC, about
April 1864. During that stay I wore a kind of supporter by taking a suspender and
padding around the rupture (scrotal hernia). Part of the time in the hospital I acted as a
kind of nurse and waited on persons who were in a worse fix than myself. At the VRC I
was used as a nurse in hospital #2 and used as kind of an orderly to commander of the
post, Major A. Gozzum.”
In 1865 the family moved to Bushnell (McDonough) Illinois and rented a house and
taught school, Sperry schoolhouse, about 1 ½ miles south of Bushnell. He then mobbed
five miles south of Bushnell and taught at Welch Schoolhouse or Cottonwood
Schoolhouse for two terms of six months each until 1869, when he moved to Vernon
County, Missouri, and taught two schools for nine months each—Mobley School and
Hawkins School. He returned to Ipava (Fulton) Illinois in 1871 and remained there until
1877. He farmed, bought hogs, and taught school. After his wife died in 1876, he moved
to Fayette, Missouri.
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In Fayette, Missouri, he worked for D. O. Morris, who was a retail dealer in lumber.
“[He] has been in my employ constantly for 5 years. Delivers all my goods, collects
money for the same. Received and Receipts for all the express that comes to this city and
there has not appeared a discrepancy in all his transactions . . . I consider him perfectly
reliable for truth and honesty . . .”—D.O. Morris, 1888 Hillyer was an agent of the
Pacific Express Company in Fayette, Missouri in 1888.
His pension file includes names of three of his siblings: Milton Hillyer; Delilah Clannin;
and Nancy Brown.
Thomas Hillyer died 26 December 1903 in Fayette, Missouri.
Holliday, Alexander P.—Enlisted 28 July 1862 as a Private in Co. B, 84 th Infantry.
Promoted to Sergeant. Mustered out 8 June 1865. Died 5 October 1931 in Creston
(Union) Iowa.
Alexander P. Holliday, Graceland Cemetery, Creston (Union)
Iowa, Section B, Lot 95, Grave 9
Holliday, Alexander S.--Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Born in Harrison County, Ohio, on 7 January 1844. Married Matilda Bartlett at Mt.
Pleasant (Henry) Iowa, on 12 April 1871. She died 23 October 1923 in Creston, Iowa.
After the war he lived in Ipava until 1868; in Nebraska (1870-1872), Kansas; Marion
County, Iowa, from 1868-1870. He was a carpenter, painter, and paper hanger. His
children: Cora born April 1872; Amy born May 1874; Essie born April 1877; Ela born
1878; Louis born 1882; and Edith born 1885.
Holliday, John Calvin—Enlisted 21 March 1864 as a Private, 18 years old, in Co. H,
28 th Infantry. Mustered out 15 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Description at
enlistment: 5’4 ½” tall, light hair, grey eyes. Born in Wheeling, Virginia. Died in Des
Moines, Iowa on 12 June 1917.
Holliday, John Calvin-- 1860 US Census for Ipava (Fulton) Illinois: Son of Ruth and
[undecipherable]. Father is a painter. John is 12 years old.
Holliday, John Calvin—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: He used the name Calvin, according to his Iowa marriage certificate. John Calvin
Holliday was born 17 October 1847 in Wheeling, West Virginia. His father was J. P.
Holliday. John’s brother was Stanton Holliday of Union County, Iowa in 1917. His
sister was Martha Hern of Marion County, Iowa.
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Married Melisa Burt in Marion County, Iowa, approximately 9 September 1872. She was
born 13 August 1850 in Little Falls (Herkimer) New York. Their children living in
1898: William R. born 7 March 1873; Orie E. born 12 October 1874; Charley L. born 13
November 1876; Glen H. born 16 February 1887; and Lura M. born 26 January 1888.
John’s occupation was that of a “grainer.”
His pension was based on heart disease, lumbago, nervous prostration, and kidney
trouble.
From 1865 -1867 they lived in Fulton County, Illinois, then living in Marion County,
Iowa, until 1878. They were in Lucas County, Iowa until 1889, and then went to Des
Moines, Iowa. In 1917 the family lived in Des Moines (Polk) Iowa at 1174 7 th Street.
John Calvin died 13 June 1917, with burial at Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines (Polk)
Iowa.
Howard, George O.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 23 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; light hair; blue eyes; married, born in
Knox County, Ohio. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.
Howard, James—Enlisted 15 August 1862 as a Sergeant, 36 years old, in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Deserted 15 June 1863 at Jackson, Tennessee. Description at enlistment: 6’1”
tall, dark hair, blue eyes, married. Born in Licking Co., Ohio.
Howell, Nathan—Enlisted 16 February 1865 as a Private, 40 years old, in Co. D, 151 st
Infantry. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Description at
enlistment: 5’5 ½” tall, brown hair, blue eyes. Born in Ohio.
Hubbard, Amos—Enlisted 21 March 1865, 37 years old, as a private in Co. F, 58 th
Infantry Consolidated. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; black hair; hazel eyes;
shoemaker, born in New Jersey. Mustered out 20 March 1866 for expiration of term.
Hubbard, Amos—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born in Newark, New Jersey approximately 1826. He stated he was 73 years old in
1899. He was an orphan with no known relatives. He became a shoemaker.
Amos’ first wife was Catharine Hogancamp, married in New York. Their one child died
in infancy, and Catharine died in 1855. He then married the widow Elizabeth Hall
Cramblett in Freeport, Ohio. They had no children. Elizabeth died in Columbus, Ohio on
2 October 1861. His third wife was Ruth Hall, married in Morefield, Ohio on 6
November 1866. Ruth was the sister of his second wife, Elizabeth. Their two children, a
son and a daughter, died in infancy in 1868 and 1872. Amos died in Ipava (Fulton)
Illinois on 9 September 1899.
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The following year Ruth “lost her mind.” Two conservators were appointed, the last one
being Lottie Miller, her niece. Lottie seems to have treated her kindly. Ruth died 1
August 1904 at the Illinois Hospital for the Insane.
Hughes, Isaac M.—Enlisted 28 July 1862 as a Private, 18 years old, in Co. B, 84 th
Infantry. Discharged 22 January 1863 at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Description at
enlistment: 5’10” tall, black hair, black eyes. Born in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois. Also
served in Co. D, 151 st Infantry from 15 February 1865 until mustered out on 24 January
1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Died 24 September 1909.
Hughes, Isaac M.--1860 US Census for Ipava (Fulton) Illinois: He is a laborer on the
farm of Barack and Margaret Thompson, along with Edward Hughes (21); David Hughes
(18); Nancy J. Hughes (13); Frances M. Hughes (3); Jas. Thompson (15); William
Thompson (13).
Hughes, Isaac-- Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
First marriage to Martha Jane Moore on 14 August 1866. She died 26 October 1873 in
Lewistown, Illinois. Second marriage to Mariah Louisa Kimball on 13 January 1878 in
Bernadotte, Illinois. Two children were living in 1898: Flora B. Hughes Cameron, born 3
January 1869 in Ipava, Illinois; and Dora E. Hughes Gibboney born 16 February 1871 in
Ipava.
Isaac’s brother is David Hughes. Isaac was a blacksmith.
Isaac was wounded at Stone River, Tennessee. In 1862 he marched through Kentucky,
and near Silver Springs, Kentucky, had a severe attack of congestion of bladder and
kidneys—“In November or December 1862, Claimant in condition physically to do any
duty of a soldier as he verily believed, commenced a march with his company regiment
towards Nashville, Tenn; that his and fellow soldiers knapsacks contained the winter
supply of clothing; their cartridge boxes contained 40 rounds; their haversacks contained
3 or 4 days rations, all of which with their usual arms made a full load and more than
usually carried; that such march continued unceasingly, or nearly so, until 11 to 12
o’clock at night and a point near Silver Springs, Ky was reached; that of Claimants
company only two ____ officers and about six others reached the encampment; claimant
believes and avers that his disease was contracted then and there; that the next morning
after such march Claimants back troubled him seriously and that he for the first time in
his life passed bloody urine…”
After discharge, Isaac resided in Missouri, Lewistown and Bernadotte, Illinois. Isaac
Hughes died 24 September 1909 of Bright’s Disease at Bernadotte (Fulton) Illinois. He
is buried at the West Cemetery of Ipava, Illinois. His last address was RR #4, Ipava,
Illinois.
Hummel, George F.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 32 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103rd
Infantry and Co. D, 40 th Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; light hair; blue
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eyes; born in Union County, Pennsylvania or Ohio. Transferred to 40 th Infantry June 19,
1865. Mustered out 24 July 1865. Died 10 September 1910.
Hummel, George F.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Born in 1831. Married Margaret Rothrock in Lewistown, Pennsylvania on 25
September 1855. Their children living in 1898: Henry Bridg, born 1856. George
claimed a disability pension based on rheumatism, bronchitis and catarrh of the throat and
kidneys. George died 10 September 1910. Margaret lived in Webster City (Hamilton)
Iowa in 1916, dying on 11 October 1918.
Jacobs, John A.—Enlisted 15 August 1861 as a Private, 22 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall, black hair, brown eyes, born Rossville
(York) Ohio.
Jacobs, John A.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
“His father died of paralysis and I attended his mother during her last illness. She had
pneumonia.”—Dr. A. C. Hubrick, York Pennsylvania, 1885.
Married Rebecca in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. She died 1 March 1877, and is
buried at Dauphin Cemetery, Dauphin (Dauphin) Pennsylvania. He then married Elma
G. Sweitzer on 11 March 1879 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Two of Elma’s sisters
lived together at 421 Herr Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Rebecca A. Graybill and
Mary A. Ziegler.
William’s children: Ella Irene born 31 October 1869 and Laura born 30 January 1872.
He received a medical discharge in 1863 for disease of the lungs—tuberculosis of the
lower part of the right lung. William died of La Grippe on 15 May 1900. Elma died 18
August 1911.
Jamesson, James—Enlisted 31 July 1862, 39 years old, as a private in Co. H, 85 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 6’ tall; auburn hair; blue eyes; born in Harrison
County, Indiana. Discharged for disability 3 February 1863 at Nashville, Tennessee.
Jamesson, James—1860 Federal Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois:
James is 36 years old, born in Indiana. His wife is Jane or June, 33, also born in Indiana.
All their children were born in Illinois: Edward (12); Laura (11); Pamelia (7); and
Catharine (2).
Jones, George W.—Enlisted 19 October 1861 as a Private, 19 years old, in Co. G, 11 th
Cavalry. Mustered out 14 July 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. Reenlisted as a veteran on
20 December 1863 at Clear Creek, Mississippi. Description at enlistment: 5’8 ½” tall,
auburn hair, blue eyes. Died 26 February 1916 in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois.
George W. Jones--Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born “east of Bryant Ill in Buckheart” 27 March 1843. Married Sarah Jane Wallace on 3
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August 1866 in Lewistown, William Standard, Esquire officiating. She was also known
as Sarah Jane Jones and Jane W. Wallace. When George was 15 his father’s house was
destroyed by fire and the family bible burned with most of the household furniture and
effects.
Since the war they lived in Isabel and Pleasant Townships in Fulton County, Illinois.
Their children: Charles born 15 August 1867; Frank born 5 August 1870; and Richard
Herman born 30 November 1872. In the fall of 1882 he was going home from Havana
“…about 4 miles west it being after night—would say about eight o’clock—when the
team became frightened and ran away and upset the wagon and at that time I incurred the
injury of the right leg below the knee.” His right leg was broken below the knee—a
compound fracture. He told the doctor that pieces of bone came out below his knee.
Kelly, Zachariah T.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 15 years old, in Co. I, 103 rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’4” tall; light hair; hazel eyes; born Lewistown, Fulton
County, Illinois. Killed 27 June 1864 near Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia.
Kelly, Zachariah T.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: As Zachariah died unmarried with no children, his mother applied for his pension.
Henry P. Kelly and Mary Kelly were his parents. In 1881 his surviving siblings were:
Eliza J. born 1842; John B. born 1851; Mary L. born 1856 and died 1865; and Robert C.
born 1858. Zachariah was born 24 July 1847.
Henry P. Kelly was an unhealthy man, suffering from epilepsy and frequent bilious
attacks. Mary stated that people didn’t know how much her husband suffered. “Mr.
Kelly was troubled with epileptic fits when I first knew him. But had not had any now for
about 28 years. He was treated with nitrate of silver and has now a very dark bluish
color of skin as a result of treatment.”—C.B. Tompkins, M.D. 1883. “We called him
‘Blue Kelly.”—William Parkinson, 1888.
“Since the death of Zachariah, the farm has had to be rented, netting a small amount
annually and that this and small amount earned by H. P. Kelly as a veterinary doctor and
by Mary Kelly’s knitting has been the means of support since Zachariah died.”—James
Jones, 1888
When questioned about how much income the farm produced, Mary replied, “I know we
didn’t get very much. It was mighty hard scratching. There was very little left after we
paid the taxes. I tell you we all had to scratch. I shucked corn and helped stack hay,
wheat and ___ it in. I did all kinds of work about the farm except plow. I didn’t chop
wood in the woods but I did at the wood pile. I had only one son then to help me and he
wasn’t able to do anything. My children were small and my husband wasn’t able to do
much work. We lived on the farm till the spring of ’72 . . . we were not able to run the
farm any longer so we concluded to rent it and we moved to Ipava. We didn’t make
anything on the farm and some years we came out behind…we rented the farm to my son,
John Kelly”—Mary Kelly 1888.
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Henry Kelly died of pneumonia on 24 February 1888 at the age of 73.
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Letter home, Zachariah Kelly, May 30, 1863
from pension file
Kinsey, William A.—Enlisted 15 August 1861 as a Sergeant, 20 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall, brown hair, teacher.
William A. Kinsey, Civil War Pension Application for National Archives, Washington,
DC: He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Married Mary E. 1864 in
Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois. Mary died 30 August 1894. Their children: ___ McFall
born 8 August 1850; F. W. Kinsey born 8 November 1859.
During the war he was ordered to take a team of four mules and go in a company with
others 4 to 5 miles from camp and bring in a load of sutler’s goods. On return to camp
while crossing a bridge, the saddle mule in the team broke through the bridge, throwing
him onto a piece of timber, striking the small of his back. He was discharged from this
injury. Since the war he resided in Summum for 2 years, and then moved to Ipava. He
returned to farming, but found it too difficult with his bad back. He had to abandon
manual labor and in 1876 tended a small grocery store.
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Knock, Amos—Enlisted 6 August 1862 as a Corporal, 23 years old, in Co. B, 84 th
Infantry. Promoted to Sergeant 23 December 1863. Died from wounds 11 October 1864
at Battle of Chickamauga, which occurred on September 19, 1863. Description at
enlistment: 5’8” tall, dark hair, blue eyes, born Fulton County, Illinois.
Knock, (Robert) Bruce—Enlisted 1 October 1861 as a Private, 16 years old, in Co. G,
50 th Infantry. Discharged 27 September 1864 at term expiration. Description at
enlistment: 5’5 ½” tall, brown hair, blue eyes. Born in Fulton Co. Illinois. Died 16
January 1932 in Canty, Kansas.
Bruce Knock’s deposition dated 29 July 1890: I am 45 years old, Editor of the Le
Compton Ledger. I have lived here [Le Compton (Douglas) Kansas] since December 1,
1889, before that I lived at [] Montgomery Co. Kansas from 1870, before 1870 I lived in
Fulton Co. Ills where I lived from birth in 1844 except the three years I was in service.
My P.O. there was Ipavia and Bernadotte Fulton Co Ills. My self and my brother
Wallace enlisted Oct 1 1864 in Bernadotte Ills and I was discharged at Rome Ga Sept 27,
1864. My brother Wallace reenlisted and was discharged about the last of June 1865 in
Louisville Ky. I had four brothers besides myself in the army, Wallace, Jasper and myself
served in “G” Co. 50 Ills. Vols and the other two, ____ and Daniel, served in the 84 th
Ills. I had numerous cousins in the army, but none served in our company. We went in
the first call and the others followed after. [In response to a question about his brother
Wallace’s general health before enlistment] It was good as far as I knew. He was some
six years older than I. For about three or four years prior to enlistment, he farmed in
another neighborhood, but he would come home every Sunday and I thought that he was
as healthy as any one. I am sure I never heard any complaints. Our parents were very
healthy and lived to be old, my father being about 74 years old at death, and my mother
is still alive at 80 years. They were neither subject to any lung, heart, or other disease,
and all the boys were healthy when they enlisted. I know Wallace and myself were
medically examined at enlistment. We were stripped naked and passed a rigid
examination before we were accepted.”
Robert Bruce Knock’s Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC : ”My true name given me by my parents was just Bruce but in the army my
comrades would call me Sir Robert Bruce and as I rather liked the name Robert Bruce,
after my discharge I adopted the initial “R” and signed my name “R. B. Knock.” (1915).
Born 22 December 1844 in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois. His parents were Daniel Knock, born
in Delaware, and Pheobe Easley born in Newport, West Virginia. Married Evelyn
Hussey in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois 14 June 1867. She was born 11 January 1850 in
Princetown, Indiana. Her father was John Hussey; mother Elizabeth Sweney. She died
19 March 1938 and is buried in Havana Cemetery, Caney (Montgomery) Kansas.
Their children: Marion 14 April 1868; John F. 13 July 1869; Phebe J. 8 February 1871
died by 1915; Minnie E. 23 October 1873; Virginia F. 1 March 1875; Olive G. 10
December 1876; Franklin E. 8 April 1878; Irwin B. 14 November 1881; Daniel E. 24
November 1883; Ethel E. 3 April 1887; Julia D. 24 September 1888. Bruce suffered
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episodes of blindness for days at a time, and claimed they started during the Civil War.
[See obituary below] Died 16 January 1932 in Caney (Montgomery) Kansas and buried
at Havana Cemetery, Caney (Montgomery) Kansas.
Robert Bruce and Evelyn Knock
Courtesy of Scott Ferrell
Robert B. Knock Obituary—Coffeyville Journal [Kansas], 16 January 1932. Civil War
Veteran Passes—Robert B. Knock, veteran of the Civil War, passed away at his home
114 Church Street, in Caney, at 1:30 this morning. He had been in poor health for some
time and his going was not unexpected. Mr. Knock was born in Fulton County, Illinois,
in 1844. On June 14, 1867 he was married to Miss Evelyn Hussey. In 1870 R. and Mrs.
Knock came to Kansas and settled on a farm a mile and half east of Havana. Mr. Knock
was a good farmer. About 1880 or 1881 he went into the general mercantile business at
Havana and made a success of this. In 1883 he started the “Havana Vidette” the first
newspaper in Havana and operated this paper until 1888. He lived in Havana for twenty
years but has made his home in Caney nearly ten years. Mr. Knock, although only a boy,
enlisted in Company G, Fiftieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry on October 1, 1861, and
served his full enlistments. He was with Grant at Fort Henry and Donelson and at Shiloh
and Corinth. He followed Bragg to Chattanooga and later, to Atlanta, participating in
most of the hard battles of that memorable campaign. He had the measles while in the
service and had to return home when his enlistment ended because his eyes had failed
him and he was in bad health. Neither his eyes nor his health have been good since. He
had been quite poorly the lat two years and seriously ill for the past two weeks.
Surviving Mr. Knock are his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Knock, four sons: John, of Iola; Frank of
the home address; Irwin, address unknown; Daniel, Los Angeles; and six daughters; Mrs.
Mary Haas, Danville, Ill; Mrs. Minnie Campbell and Mrs. Jennie Wise, Caney; Mrs.
Olive White and Mrs. Lila Nicholson, Liberty , Kansas; and Mrs. Ethel Rabb, Turner,
Kans., and many other relatives. The funeral will be held at the Christian Church
tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 with the pastor, Rev. G. L. Eslick in charge of the church
services. The American Legion, Ernest Brown Post No 138, of Caney, will have charge
of the services at the grave. Burial will be at the Havana cemetery. Mr. Knock was a
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member of the United Brethren Church at Havana and took quite an active interest in this
work when he was able. He was also a member of the IOOF lodge of Havana. Used with
permission.
Knock, Jasper N.—Enlisted 25 February 1864 as a Private, 16 years and 11 months old,
in Co. G, 50 th Infantry. Mustered out 13 July 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. Description
at enlistment: grey eyes; dark hair, farmer. Brother to Bruce Knock. Died 15/16 May
1905.
Knock, Jasper N.—Civil War Pension Application, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,
Baltimore, Maryland: Married three times. First wife was Eliza E. Kinnette who died 11
February 1869. Married Ida May Jones of Cherokee, Kansas in November, 1871. She
died 8 January 1887. He then married Sarah Merritt on 3 February 1889 in Independence
(Montgomery) Kansas. Sarah was born 24 April 1867 in Arcadia, Indiana. Jasper was a
wagonmaker in the employ of John Foster of Cherokee (Crawford) Kansas.
His children: Orpha May born 27 July 1890 only child with wife Sarah Merritt; Harry T.
born 1868; Claude M. born 21 November 1874; Daniel C. born 20 February 1880; and
Phoebe E. born 6 April 1883.
Jasper suffered from measles at Camp Butler, Illinois, in 1864, followed by chronic
diarrhea. He died of Bright’s disease, aggravated by chronic diarrhea. Sarah died 13
November 1943.
After his Jasper’s death in 1905, Sarah married Charles Harry Hoffman on 28 January
1906. They were divorced on the grounds of cruelty and non-support in October 1932.
Obituary from South Kansas Tribune, Wednesday, May 24, 1905, page 1 (used with
permission of Judy Mayfield)—Jasper N. Knock was born in Fulton County, Ill., in 1847,
enlisted in Co. G of the Fifteenth Illinois [50 th Infantry] at the age of 15, served
throughout the Civil war, and answered the last roll call at fifty-eight, on Tuesday
evening May 16 th . He located in Crawford County in 1872, and a few years later moved
to this city where he has resided since. For a long time he was a wagon maker, but ill
health compelled him to give it up, and for three years he has been an invalid suffering
from a complication of diseases. He leaves a wife and two daughters and three sons. His
brother, R. B. Knock and sister Mrs. Campbell of Havana were frequent visitors to his
bedside and were at the funeral. The funeral was under the auspices of the Grand Army,
and Elder C. H. Jones left the general conference at Topeka to come and preach the
funeral service.
Knock, Wallace R.—Enlisted 1 October 1861 as a Private, 22 years old, in Co. G, 50 th
Infantry. Promoted to Sergeant. Reenlisted 1 January 1864 at Lynnville, Tennessee.
Mustered out 13 July 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. Description at enlistment: 5’8 ½”
tall, light hair, grey eyes. Born in Fulton Co., Illinois, on 4 October 1839. Died 30 July
1910. Burial at Ipava Cemetery (Fulton) Illinois.
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Wallace Knock Civil War Pension Application—National Archives, Washington, DC:
Five Knock brothers and 31 cousins served in the Civil War. Jasper Knock was a
younger brother who stated “Wallace enlisted in fall of 1864 and I never saw him from
that time until January 1864 when he came home on veteran furlough. Why, he seemed
to be somewhat jaded . . . and showed hard service.” Wallace had been sent to the
hospital at Evansville, Indiana. “My father went to see him there and father did not get to
see [Wallace] as [Wallace] had been removed before father reached Evansville.” After
the war in 1866 Wallace and brother William A. farmed together in Fulton County.
Franklin Easley also worked with him in 1867. A neighbor, Isaac David, lived ¼ mile
from Knock and “worked for and with him almost daily.” William was living in
Devereux (Sangamon) Illinois in 1890. Jno. Graham stated that “I knew Knock from
boyhood—we were raised together.” Henry Zoll said that he also knew him from
childhood and lived on an adjoining farm. Wallace Knock was a farrier 3 miles south of
Smithfield in 1889. Lewis Pigg was his brother-in-law.
Wallace Knock married Permelia Jane Pigg in Smithfield (Fulton) Illinois. She died on
11 February 1888. Their children: Marion born 17 April 1871 and lived in Derby,
Kansas in 1908; Mrs. Celie Gersuch born 23 October 1872 lived in Derby, Kansas in
1908; Mrs. Addie Chambers born 17 January 1875; Volie P. born 19 November 1876;
Mary Maud born 23 July 1880; Daniel Henderson born 24 November 1885; and William
Elbie born 15 January 1888.
Knock brothers. Standing left to right: R. B. Knock, Jasper Knock.
Seated left to right: Daniel, William, Wallace.
Courtesy of Scott Ferrell
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Knowles, Noah R.—Enlisted 29 March 1864 as a Private, 22 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Mustered out 15 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Description at enlistment:
5’11” tall, dark hair, hazel eyes. Born on 19 April 1841 in Laurell or New Georgetown
(Essex ) Delaware, the son of William W. and Eleanor Ann Phillips. Married Irena T.
Cooper on 19 January 1867 in Fulton Co., Illinois. Died 31 October 1927. Burial at
Ipava Cemetery (Fulton) Illinois.
Noah R. Knowles Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
He was “taken with disease of eyes while at Natchez and Mississippi.” He suffered
through his life with failing sight, and was blind as an elderly man. His child was Cora
A. born 26 January 1869. Her married name was Cora A. Porter.
Krouse, Jonas—Enlisted 21 August 1862, 31 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; light hair; hazel eyes; married, born in
Morgan County, Ohio. Deserted 30 December 1863 from parole camp at Benton
Barracks, Missouri.
Krouse, Jonas—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: He
was a teamster. He was classified as a deserter as he had never been discharged as of 30
December 1863. He stated he was taken prisoner and paroled instead of properly
discharged. In 1900 he lived in Otto (Fulton) Illinois.
Lambert, Clifford T.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 23 years old, as a corporal in Co. I,
103 rd Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; black hair; black eyes; married; born
in Licking County, Ohio. Reduced to ranks. Discharged March 1864 at Mound City,
Illinois, for disability.
Lambert, Clifford T.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Born in Knox County, Ohio. He was court-martialed for desertion. On 21 February
1863 he left the encampment at Camp Reed, Jackson, Tennessee. He was arrested 27
February 1863 on the Ohio River 12 miles below Paducah, Kentucky. He was found
guilty and fined the loss of one month and 4 days of pay.
He claimed disease of the spine, deafness, and sunstroke from a march from Vicksburg,
Mississippi to Jackson Mississippi in July, 1863.
He lived in Atlantic (Cass) Iowa.
Littleton, George D.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 26 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; married, born in
Clermont County, Ohio. Deserted July 1863 at Oak Ridge, Mississippi.
Littleton, George D.—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois: He
is a 24 year old farmer, born in Pennsylvania. His wife is Ellen (21) born in Ohio.
Emma is 1 years old, born in Illinois.
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Littleton, John M.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 19 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; light hair, gray eyes; born in Hardin
County, Kentucky. Absent sick at muster out 21 June 1865. Died 20 July 1932 in La
Porte, Indiana.
Littleton, John M.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born 4 August 1843 in Fleming County, Kentucky. Married Margaret A. Robinson in
Ipava (Fulton) Illinois on 8 June 1876. Their children: Marion Stanley born 24 March
1877; Frank A. born 11 April 1880; Archibald L. born 28 December 1883; and Mary Z.
born 2 December 1894, and whose married name was Martin and lived at 414 Allen
Street, La Porte, Indiana in 1932.
John Littleton’s disability discharge in 1865 was based on “general debility from obscure
pulmonary and heart disease with diminished capacity of the chest following typhoid
pneumonia, and chronic diarrhea.”
In 1873 he moved to Rice County, Kansas and then to Cooper County, Missouri. In 1874
he returned to Illinois, leaving again in 1875 for Olmstead County, Minnesota. In 1876
he returned to Illinois. He died at his daughter’s home in La Porte, Indiana, on 20 July
1932. He is buried in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois.
Mathews, William B. C.—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 37 years old, in Co.
D, 151 st Infantry. Born in Pennsylvania. Died 10 July 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee, of
acute dysentery. Description at enlistment: 5’5 ¼” tall, dark hair, grey eyes, teacher.
Information from History of Fulton County, Illinois 5 (regarding Mathew’s parents)—
Wm. Matthews, retired farmer, P.O. Ipava; was born in Maryland September 2, 1808,
son of Charles and Agnes M.; came to this State in 1843l was married in Pennsylvania to
Mary Hannum, a native of that State; they have had 16 children, 8 of whom are alive.
Mr. M. had 3 sons in the late war at one time: one died at Nashville. Mr. Mathews has
always been a farmer during active life.
William B. C. Mathew’s Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Married Martha R. Parry on 3 October 1860. She was born on April 5, 1840 in
Fulton County, Illinois. Their children: Harvey C. born August 1861; Laura V. born 18
December 1862; and Elmer Ellsworth born 7 December 1864. Martha married Robert
McClelland on 28 January 1877 at Monmouth, Illinois. He was a plasterer, and died 26
November 1899 in Beatrice (Gage) Nebraska.
McKenna, Edward—Enlisted 21 March 1864 as a Private, 19 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Mustered out 15 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Description at enlistment:
5’9” tall, dark hair, blue eyes. Born in Ireland. Died 4 January 1926 in Kingman,
Kansas.
5 Refers to History of Fulton County, Illinois: Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships,
Educational, Religious, Civil, Military and Political history: biographies of representatives citizens. Charles
C. Chapman & Co, Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 859.
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Edward McKenna, St. Joseph Cemetery,
New Almelo (Norton) Kansas. Courtesy of Mike McKenna.
Written about Edward McKenna by his grandson, about 1979: My grandfather, Edward
McKenna, was born April 4, 1845, near the town of Glaslough County Monaghan,
Ireland. If you have seen a picture of Castle Leslie, that is near. His mother died, and he
was brought to this country by an Aunt. His mother was Katherine Brannigan and his
father was Peter McKenna. He was nine years old when he came to this country. It took
six weeks in a sailing vessel. Seven years later, he joined Company H Illinois
Volunteers. When Company H lost so many men, it was consolidated with Company A
of the same regiment. After the Civil War, he was sent to Vera Cruz, Mexico, with his
regiment. The men and their mules were shipped on the same boat from New Orleans to
Vera Cruz. During a severe storm, the officers decided that the men would be safer
without the mules. The mules were pushed off the side of the boat. Granddad said that
the mules swam after the boat and some of the stronger for nearly a half day.
Maximillian was finally removed from the throne of Mexico. Granddad had spent most of
the time at Vera Cruz and Matamoras. Later, I saw the Cathedral and the town square on
which it was built. It looked just like Grandfather had said even to the scars of the fire
that had burned part of it 37 years before. When his term of enlistment was over, he was
sent back to New Orleans and mustered out. Besides his pay of $8 a month, he was given
his 56 caliber Spencer rifle and the mule he rode. He returned to Illinois, met, courted
and married Mary Tunney in Manitou, Illinois, on Feb. 4, 1872. To this union were born
four sons. Hugh, died in infancy; then Lawrence in 1874; Peter Henry in 1875 and John
in 1879. Hugh, Lawrence and Peter Henry were born in Illinois, and John on Section 16,
Kingman County, Kansas. The union lasted more than 50 years and was broken upon
January 4, 1926 when Edward died. Mary died at age 92. Used with permission of Mike
McKenna.
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Edward McKenna and family, courtesy Mike McKenna
McKenna, Edward—Civil War Pension Application, Department of Veterans Affairs,
Chicago Regional Office—Born 4th or 1 st of April 1845 in Truagh, Ireland. His father
was Peter McKenna. Married Mary Tunney 4 February 1872 in Manito (Mason) Illinois.
Mary was born in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland in July 1850. Their children:
Lawrence born April 1874; Peter H. born 4 December 1875; and John born 2 November
1878/79. In 1913 Edward attested, “His mother died while he was quite young and he
with an older brother came to the United States in the year 1854, and that his brother has
been dead a number of years.”
His pension claim was based on rheumatism, respiratory and heart diseases; injury to his
right leg. .” . . . right leg was broken by a horse kicking him on the leg while working in
fields raking hay.” “I had my leg injured about three years ago by an iron spur
penetrating the bone and it has been weak ever since.”—Edward McKenna,
Until 1869 they lived in Schuyler County, Illinois; then Mason County, Illinois until
1878, when they moved to Kingman County, Kansas.
Edward died 4 January 1926 in Kingman County, Kansas. Mary died 17 August 1941.
McWhirt, Cornelius Sullivan—Enlisted 14 August 1862 as a Corporal, 33 years old, in
Co. I, 103 rd Infantry. Promoted to Sergeant at Quincy, Illinois. Received disability
discharge on 15 December 1864. Description at enlistment: 6’1” tall, light hair, blue
eyes, married, carpenter. Born in Frederick[sburg] (Spotsylvania) Virginia.
McWhirt, Cornelius “Neal”—Genealogical information courtesy of Cynthia McWhirt,
2011: Born 19 September 1828 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Married Mary L.
“Polly” Johnson on 14 December 1848 in Fulton County, Illinois. She was the daughter
of David S. Johnson and Lucy E. Ellsworth. Cornelius was a carpenter, living in
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Bernadotte (Fulton) Illinois in 1850. Their children: Loami Nelson (male) and John W.
born 4 September 1850 and died the next day (burial in Fiatt Cemetery (Fulton) Illinois.)
Polly McWhirt did not survive much longer—she died on 5 January 1851.
Cornelius’ second wife was Mary L. O’Brine, married in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois on
16 August 1856. She was born on 20 July 1836 in Pennsylvania, and died 2 February
1915/16 in Pawhuska (Osage) Oklahoma. Their children: James Marion; Samuel Alvin;
Jennie Susan; Amos V. born 19 July 1867 and died 19 October 1867; and Lura Lee.
Cornelius was promoted to sergeant in November of 1862. While encamped near
Vicksburg, Mississippi, in October, 1863, he became ill and was taken to the general
hospital at Iuka, Mississippi, where he was diagnosed with heart disease. In April 1864
he was transferred to a convalescent camp at Louisville, Kentucky. In September he was
moved to another hospital in Madison, Indiana, and then in September to one in Quincy,
Illinois, where he received a medical discharge on 12 December 1864.
In 1866 he was farming outside of Macomb (McDonough) Illinois. In 1870 he was
enumerated with his brother-in-law, Joseph Carlock, in Osage Mission Township
(Neosho) Kansas. In the 1880 census he is living in Belleville Township (Chautauqua)
Kansas, as a disabled carpenter. Cornelius died 14 May 1886 in New Hartford, Missouri.
His widow moved to New Hartford around 1887. The 1910 census lists Mary with her
granddaughter, Dessie (Tripp) Roebuck in Strike Axe Township (Osage) Oklahoma.
Mary died at her son James’ home in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on 2 February 1916, of
dropsy due to a heart condition. She was 80 years old. It is the general family consensus
that Cornelius moved to Indian Territory before Oklahoma statehood, but the census
records seem to show otherwise. Marcia McWhirt says that Cornelius built houses for
the Indians and was paid for his services with horses.
Miller, Michael S.—Enlisted 26 March 1864 as a Private, 18 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Mustered out 6 March 1866 at Springfield, Illinois. Description at enlistment:
5’9” tall, black hair, black eyes. During the war he tented with Robert Dobbins. He got
camp diarrhea at Natchez, Mississippi, in July 1864 and spent 3 weeks in the hospital. He
died of a bowel hemorrhage. Born 17 July 1846 in Fulton Co., Illinois. Died 22/23 July
1899 in Pullman (Cook) Illinois. Burial at Ipava Cemetery (Fulton) Illinois.
Michael Miller Civil War Pension Application—National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Nancy K. Beers on 19 September 1867 in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois. Their
marriage certificate was destroyed in a house fire in 1877. He was friendly with Robert
T. Thomas who states he “saw him almost evry Day as we lived clost to gether labored
with him on same farm for twelve or fifteen years.”[spelling as in original]. In 1899 he
and Nancy were living in Pullman (Cook) Illinois, in 1900 she lived in Michigan City (La
Porte) Indiana. Her worldly goods consisted of 1 bedroom set worth $25 and life
insurance payments of $90 a year, less $20 a year taxes. Their children: Addie B. born
21 October 1868 and Lulu A. born 19 April 1876. Michael Miller was employed in the
security department of the PCC as a watchman in the streetcar division.
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Miner, Parkhurst Robert—Enlisted 24 July 1862 as a Private in Co. B, 84 th Infantry.
Promoted to Sergeant 24 December 1863. Mustered out 8 June 1865 at Camp Harker,
Tennessee. Born 6 February 1844. Died 27 January 1917 in Boise (Ada) Idaho.
Parkhurst Miner Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married
Elvira [Alvira] D. Smith 18 October 1865. She died 9 June 1891 in Boise, Idaho.
Married Rachel Virginia Andrews 18 November 1894. She was born 14 February 1846
in Lawrence County, Ohio. Her parents were Greenberry and Barbary Willis of Ironton
and South Point in Lawrence County, Ohio. Her siblings were Henry, William, Josiah,
Thompson, Richard, Alonzo, Jediah, Charles, Elizabeth, Polly and Julia. This was her
third marriage. Her first husband, Edward A. Andrews, died 11 September 1876 in a
workplace accident. Her first son, Charles Andrews, affirmed in 1917: “. . . at the time
of the death of Edward Andrews, my father, I was twelve years of age; I remember his
death and the circumstances attending the same; he was killed on the 11 th day of
September 1876 at LaCrosse, Wis.: at the time of his death he was chief engineer at the
White Collar Mills, owned and operated by P. S. Davidson & Co.; that the immediate
cause of his death was the explosion of two steam boilers which were used in the
operation of said mill. . . . I saw Edward Andrews, my father, when he was carried out of
the mill and to his home; that he died within a few minutes after being removed from the
wreckage.”
Her second marriage to Addison Stanley ended in divorce in 1888. Parkhurst’s children:
Dollie May born 8 December 1866; William Ross 20 September 1868; Linnie Edna 12
July 1872; Everett Andrus 11 January 1877; Charles Cloyd March 1, 1881. Rachel died
4 April 1926 in Boise (Ada) Idaho. (From a deposition by her son with her first
husband.)
Parkhurst was the sixth child of William Miner, born 4 September 1810 in Jefferson
County, Kentucky, and Phebe Ward, born 19 April 1813 in New Jersey. One of his
brothers was Timothy Graham Miner. Parkhurst died 27 January 1917 in Boise (Ada)
Idaho.
Parkhurst Miner, Pioneer Cemetery, Boise (Ada) Idaho
Obituary for Parkhurst Miner—The Idaho Sunday Statesman, Boise, Idaho January 28,
1917, page 5 Col. 2: “Parcus (sic) R. Miner, aged 72 years, died at a Boise hospital
Saturday afternoon at 12:30 o’clock after an illness of three months. Mr. Miner was born
at Table Grove, Ill. February 6, 1844. He enlisted in the 84 th Illinois volunteers in 1862.
He settled in Wayne County, Iowa, in 1866 and came to Boise in 1890. He has been an
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employee in the government service for the last 17 years, serving previous to that time as
the first adjutant in the Idaho Soldiers’ Home, and as deputy internal revenue collector
for Idaho. He was appointed Lt of Watch in the land office department at Washington
DC 17 years ago. In 1909 he was sent as deputy US marshal to northern Idaho.
He then returned to the government service and remained in Washington until two
weeks ago, when he came to Boise to see once more the members of his family. He was
a member of the GAR and the IOOF. He is survived by a widow, three sons, Ross W.
and Everett Miner of Boise, and Charles Miner of Laws, Cal., and two daughters, Mrs.
Dollie M. Andrus of Butte and Mrs. W. W. Van Dusen of Boise…..Burial will be in the
Masonic cemetery.
Montgomery, Nathaniel Patterson—Enlisted 2 October 1862 as 1 st Lt. 26 years old, in
Co. I, 103 rd Infantry. Killed 27 June 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia. Description at
enlistment: 5’11” tall, light hair, blue eyes. Born in Hillsboro (Orange) North Carolina.
Burial in Section C, Site 2276 at Marietta National Cemetery, Marietta, GA. Son of
James P. and Sarah Brower.
Montgomery, Nathaniel Patterson—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County,
Illinois: Son of James Montgomery (67) born in North Carolina and Sarah (60) also born
in North Carolina. Nathaniel is listed as a farmer, born in North Carolina.
Morrison, Casper Bowers—Enlisted 21 March 1864 as a Private, 21 years old, in Co.
H, 28 th Infantry. Mustered out 15 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Description at
enlistment: 5’5 ½” tall, light hair, blue eyes. Born April 1843 in Mifflin County,
Pennsylvania. Married Margaret E. in August 1869. 1850 Federal Census for Vermont
(Fulton) IL lists him as 7 years old living with the family of George Shaver. In 1880
census he and Margaret are living in Crawford (Crawford) Kansas. In 1880 they are in
Stone (Baker) Oregon with 3 children. 1900 living in Council (Washington) Idaho with 4
children. Died in Council, (Adams) Idaho on 9 September 1902, and buried in Winkler
Cemetery, Adams County, Idaho.
Morrison, Casper Bowers—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives,
Washington, DC: Married Margaret Lafton near Girard (Crawford) Kansas on 1 August
1869. Their children living in 1898: Annie, born 14 July 1873; J. C. born 8 August 1870;
Bell born 1 September 1878; Mary born 21 January 1880; Maggie born 22 May 1882;
and Freddie born 21 November 1898.
Casper suffered from sub-acute encephalitis in 1896 near Council, Idaho, when he was
struck on the back of the head by a horse.
In 1893 the family was living in Council Valley (Washington) Idaho.
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Casper and Margaret Morrison, Winkler Cemetery, Adams Co., Idaho
(Courtesy of Cheryl Hanson)
Morrison, George V.—Enlisted 15 August 1861 as a Private in Co. H, 28 th Infantry.
Reenlisted 1 May 1864 at Natchez, Mississippi. Killed on 20 September 1864 at
Natchez, Mississippi, while on picket guard. Description at enlistment: 5’ 4 ½” tall, light
hair, blue eyes. Born in Pennsylvania.
Morrison, James A.—Enlisted 8 August 1862, 18 years old, as a private in Co. F, 84 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’4 ¾” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born Wayne, Mifflin
County, Pennsylvania. Transferred to VRC December 1863.
Musgrove, Benjamin F.—Brother of Samuel Roland Musgrove. Son of Mary Musgrove,
born in Maryland. Enlisted 15 August 1861 as a private, 19 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8 ½” tall, light hair, blue eyes. Born in Ohio.
Discharged 26 August 1864 at expiration of term at Natchez, Mississippi.
Musgrove, Benjamin F.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: His unnamed wife died 18 June 1882 in Bushnell (McDonough) Illinois. His only
child named in the pension file was E. Abbie Musgrove, born October 1869. As an adult,
Mrs. Abbie Musgrove Shafer of Breckinridge, Missouri, wrote to the pension bureau
hoping they would have an address for her father. In October of 1891 Abbie stated that
she thought her father “disappeared in the fall of 1872—he having had some trouble with
his neighbors, it’s possible he might have been foully dealt with.”
In 1885 he was in Valley Springs (Minnehaha) Dakota Territory. He also lived in Britton
(Marshall) South Dakota for a time. He died in the South Dakota Soldiers Home on 6
April 1899.
Musgrove, Samuel Roland—Brother of Benjamin Musgrove, son of Mary Musgrove,
who was born in Maryland. Enlisted 15 August 1861 as a Private, 26 years old, in Co. H,
28 th Infantry. Also served in Co. D, 151 st Infantry as a Sergeant from 15 February 1865
to 24 January 1866 when mustered out at Columbus, Georgia. Description at enlistment:
5’8” tall, auburn hair, blue eyes. Born Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
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Musgrove, Samuel Roland—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives,
Washington, DC: Married Sarah Jane Chicken in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois on 17 January
1869. Sarah was born in Fulton County, Illinois, and was the daughter of Henry Chicken
and Elizabeth Bogue. Samuel went by “Roland.”
Their children younger than 16 in 1891: Amy born 8 March 1880 in McDonough County,
Illinois; Fred and Frank, twins born 28 June 1882; Olive born 28 December 1885; and
Homer C. born 4 July 1876.
His pension claim was based on chronic diarrhea gotten at Shiloh, Tennessee in April
1862. “During the siege of Vicksburg was taken with the liver complaint and kidney
disease and was very low till November 1863. Was taken down again at Natchez,
Mississippi, January 1864.” Samuel Roland Musgrove died 27 February 1891 in
Vermont (Fulton) Illinois. In 1890 the family was living in Champion County, Arkansas.
After this death, his widow stated: “My husband, S. Roland, left notes on persons in
Arkansas (good, bad and desperate) amounting to 314.40 Dollars and the best one
refused to pay without administration on it. I administered and the court appointed S.
Cox, J. Mershon and R. M. Miller appraisers—who appraised the personal effects at fifty
Dollars which I took at that amount as I had to keep house and since then, I have
received from Arkansas 129.30 Dollars on said Notes and I do not know how much more
will be paid. I have paid out 65.19 Dollars funeral expenses, and [unreadable] about
15.00 to 17.00 Dollars unpaid. And I have 10.26 Dollars on hand. And I occasionally
get small sums of money from my son Robert who is working out on a farm, and upon the
charity of my good neighbors and friends who take care of the widows and orphans.”—
Sarah Musgrove
Nevin, Simon—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 26 years old, as a private in Cos. D and I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; married; born in
Belmont County, Ohio on 13 April 1835. Died 20 October 1863 while at home on sick
furlough of chronic diarrhea.
Nevin, Simon—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois: 22 year old
laborer, born in Ohio. His wife is Mary (23) born in Illinois. Their unnamed male child
is 10 months old.
Nevin, Simon—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC.—
Married Mary Ann Brown on 18 August 1858 in Fulton County, Illinois. Mary was born
3 September 1835. Their children: Mary Louisa born 1 February 1861 with a married
name of Woody; and William E., born 28 December 1862 and died in August of 1865.
(Attested to by Juda France, wife of Michael France.)
After Simon’s death in 1863, Mary married James M. Hutton in Fulton County, Illinois,
on 10 November 1871. They had at least 2 children together. James died 27 July 1890 in
Gardner (Johnson) Kansas of typhoid fever. As a widow, Mary supported herself by
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taking in laundry and from funds from the County. She was on the pauper list. Mary
died in Gardner, Kansas, on 6 February 1917.
Nolan, Henry—Enlisted 15 August 1862, 24 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; brown hair; hazel eyes; born in Ohio.
Discharged March 1863 for disability.
Nolan, Henry—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born in Monroe County, Ohio. Married Emaline Hubbs in McComb (McDonough)
Illinois on 26 October 1859. She was the widow of Samuel Hubbs, who died 20 July
1853. “Emaline and Samuel moved to Lacon (Marshall) Illinois from Ohio. In 1853
were living in a log home near the cemetery in Lacon, Illinois when both got cholera.
Samuel didn’t recover and died at home in the summer of 1853.”—Mrs. Rachel Hull,
1890
From 1864 to 1873 they lived in New Buffalo or Union Pier in Berrien County,
Michigan. In 1873 they were in South Haven Township (Van Buren) Michigan.
Henry claimed heart disease caused by exposure to severe weather while guarding
prisoners at Cairo, Illinois in January of 1863. One doctor thought he had pericarditis and
rheumatism, causing heart failure. Henry died 8 December 1888. Emaline died 13
September 1914 in South Haven, Michigan.
Nolan, Thomas—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 19 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; brown hair; hazel eyes; born in Ohio. Died
February 1864 at Nashville, Tennessee, of disease.
Parkinson, Joseph—Enlisted 15 August 1862, 27 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; light hair; blue eyes; married; born in
Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio. Absent wounded at muster out on 21 June 1865.
Died 29 April 1911.
Parkinson, Joseph—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or Ohio on 5 July 1835. Married Helen M. Adams in
Fulton County, Illinois, on 10 October 1861. Their children living in 1898: Mary Bertha
Folmsbee born 18 January 1863; John Charles born 14 January 1867; and Joseph Marion
born 1 May 1870. Joseph Marion was a widower by 1927 and had 2 adopted children,
though they did not live with him. He left Columbus, Georgia after his mother died,
going to Manchester, Georgia, and then he left there.
Joseph lost half of his left foot, including the toes, due to a gun shot wound during the
war. The foot was so badly injured they had to amputate most of the foot. He used
crutches for the rest of his life.
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In 1886 the family was in Nebraska, in 1911 in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1926 Helen lived
in Lumpkin, Georgia. Joseph Parkinson died in Nebraska on 29 April 1911. Burial at
Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln (Lancaster) Nebraska.
Joseph Parkinson
Photograph by Tony & Cindy Lloyd at findagrave.com
Parkinson, Thomas K.—Enlisted 15 August 1862, 19 years old, as a private in Co, I.
103 rd Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7: tall; brown hair; hazel eyes; born Warren
(Jefferson) Ohio. Mustered out as corporal. 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. Died
5 May 1918 at Riverside, California.
Parkinson, Thomas K.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Born 27 August 1842 in Warren (Jefferson) Ohio. His parents are Thomas P. of
England and Margaret McKee of Ireland. Thomas’ brother is David Parkinson of
Sedgwick County, Kansas in 1918. Married Amanda Sophia (Sarah) Lampton in
Lewiston (Fulton) Illinois on 26 April 1866. Amanda’s sisters are Mary Lalicker of
Fulton County, Illinois and Minerva Painter of Henry County, Illinois in 1918.
Their children: Eve L. Lambert born 29 September 1867; possibly a child named Olon
born 29 December 1868; Ira Myron born 17 July 1870; Ada E. Earl born 26 December
1875; Ura B. born 16 March 1878; unnamed infant born 19 September 1880; and Guy or
Gary H. born 15 February 1883.
Thomas contracted rheumatism and eczema at Bentonville, North Carolina on 27 April
1865 “from marching through the swamps on the march from Savanna through the state
of Georgia and the Carolinas with his regiment for 2 or 3 weeks.”
Thomas died 5 May 1918 of cerebral hemorrhage in Riverside, California, where they
had lived for 30 years. He is buried at the Evergreen Cemetery, Riverside (Riverside)
California. Amanda died 22 May 1928.
Patterson, Hamilton B.—Enlisted 15 August 1862, 29 years old, as a private in Co. I,
103 rd Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; sandy hair; blue eyes; married; born
in Bullitt County, Kentucky. Discharged 27 March 1865 for disability.
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Patterson, Hamilton B.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Married Lorry Hammond at her father’s home in Ellisville, Fulton County, Illinois
on 28 September 1843. Their children: Joel F. born 7 August 1860; Laura Lucinda born
24 March 1863; Georgie born 28 September 1865; Alice born 29 January 1868; and Perry
A. born 19 May 1870.
Hamilton Patterson was involved in a “charge a Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, on 27 June
1864 on enemy’s works where within 30 yards of works struck by a musket ball in left
breast. It broke 1 rib, lowered and weakened left shoulder. Left arm no more than ½
strength and is 2/3 size of the right. Left hand had no grip. Left breast always sore at
least extension and turns blue black.”
“Gunshot wound of left breast ball entered left breast ranging downward and backwards
lodging behind 4 th intercostals space and rib from which it was evidently removed by
ploughing, had passed through 3 rd rib severing it. This region of breast has relapsed in
consequence beyond surgical remedy. His death was direct result of wound”--Joseph V.
Harris, M.D. 1878
Hamilton B. Patterson died 28 April 1875 at his home in Fulton County, Illinois, of an
abscess.
Patterson, Thomas S.—Enlisted 21 August 1862, 25 years old, as a private in Co. I,
103 rd Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; sandy hair; black eyes; married; born
in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.
Patterson, William—Enlisted 15 August 1862, 23 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born in Fulton County,
Illinois. Discharged November 1863 at Memphis, Tennessee.
Patterson, William—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois:
William is a 21 year old laborer, working on the farm of Michael Stooks.
Patterson, William—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Martha Ellen Stoops in Fulton County, Illinois on 23 October 1864. Martha was
born in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois on 4 September 1845. Martha’s parents were Michael
Stoops of Ohio and Susana Gore.
Their children: Cyrus J. born 3 April 1866 in Pleasant Township (Fulton) Illinois; and
Minerva Jane born 29 April 1868.
William was sent home on sick furlough with camp diarrhea and was unable to return to
the company.
“ . . . at the time he enlisted in the army he was then a healthy stout man—that when he
came home from the army on sick furlough about the first of October 1863 he came to
the residence of herself [Sarah Stoops] and husband Michael Stoops sick and very much
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educed in flesh—that he made their house his home as much as a year thereafter—that
he had an inordinate thirst for water—that when going to lay down of a night he would
take with him a half gallon measure of water which he would drink during the night—
that his appetite was so great he could scarcely eat food enough to satiate it—that in
addition to his camp diarrhea he was greatly distressed with an enlarged flow of urine
which would require him to get up four or five times during the night. That he made his
home with them and on their premises so that he was under their notice until his death—
that at times he would think he was better and would try to work a little but run right
down again and so got worse and worse with all the above named troubles until he died.
That it was called camp diarrhea but the affliction with his urine was greatest until his
death. That it seemed as though what the doctors gave him never affected him for any
relief. She would also say that he was so bad with what she heard was diabetes, that in
riding from her home in a carriage he would have to get out three times.”—Sarah Stoops,
1875.
William died at home in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois on 30 March 1870 of diabetes. Martha
married Eli J. Paull on 11 April 1876 and lived together until his death in Lewistown,
(Fulton) Illinois on 24 September 1901. Martha died in Knox County, Illinois on 21 July
1933.
Paul, David—Enlisted 15 August 1862, 21 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 6’1” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; born in Pleasant Township,
Fulton County, Illinois. Discharged for wounds received at Missionary Ridge 25
November 1863.
Paul, David—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
David Paul was discharged for the “loss of right leg by amputation at middle third,”
[below the knee] after being shot at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee on 25
November 1863. David never married and had no children. In 1869 he lived at Dale
(McLean) Illinois. He died 12 June 1870.
Pierce, William—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 20 years old, as a corporal in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; dark hair; hazel eyes; born Coshocton
County, Ohio. Mustered out as 1 st Sgt. 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. Died 12
March 1918 in Queen City, Missouri.
Pierce, William—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born in Coshocton, Ohio 26 January 1842. His father was from Maryland, and his
mother, Elizabeth Rampley, was from Ohio. In 1918 his sister, Eliza Beam, lived in
Adair County, Missouri.
William married Sophia Yunt in Fulton County, Illinois, on 30 September 1866.
Elizabeth was born 18 October 1843 in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois. Sophia’s brother
spelled his name “Yount,” but the rest of the family spelled it “Yunt.” One of her sisters
married Daniel Six in 1867.
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Their children: Maggie E. born 6 September 1867; Cora born 11 October 1871; Effie
born 1 December 1879; and Birdie born 11 December 1883.
William died in Queen City (Schuyler) Missouri on 12 March 1918. Sophia married
John Martin on 7 December 1921 and they separated 14 September 1922. John went to
live in Worthington, Missouri, and then to the Home for Disabled Soldiers at
Leavenworth, where he died 14 March 1924.
Porter, Abel K.—Enlisted 7 August 1862, 23 years old, as a private in Co. F, 84 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; brown hair; gray eyes; born Pleasant
Township, Fulton County, Illinois. Transferred to marine service, holding rank of Acting
3 rd Assistant Engineer in the US Navy Mississippi Squadron on USS Tug Fern attached
to USS Benton from 18 May 1864 to 4 November 1865.
Porter, Abel K.—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois: 23 year
old laborer born in Ohio working on the farm of Joseph Harwick.
Porter, Abel K.—Navy Pension File—Born 5 October 1838 in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois. His
parents were Stephen Porter and Minerva Rawley of Ohio. Married Charlotte Diver in
Cleveland, Ohio, on 14 September 1865. Charlotte was born on 6 March 1847 in
London, England. Alfred Homer Diver of Trenton (Hastings) Ontario witnessed her
marriage. Their children: Harry S. born 12 May 1868; Elizabeth A. born 11 February
1873; Emma R. born 22 June 1876 and married F. M. Stover of Ravenna (Buffalo)
Nebraska in 1933; Mabel C. born 4 April 1881; and LuLu M. born 27 May 1888.
Their residences: Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois until 1873; Table Grove (Fulton) Illinois
until 1888; Bushnell, Illinois until 1891; Quincy, Illinois until 1902; Clarksville, Missouri
until 1903; Kansas City, Missouri until 1910. After his death in 1910, Charlotte lived at
1560 Sacramento St., San Francisco, California in 1915, and with her daughter, Emma, at
615 Alba Street, Ravenna, Nebraska until her death in 1932. His occupation in 1903 was
milling.
Abel K. Porter died 16 March 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri, of pneumonia. He is
buried at the Mt. Washington Cemetery there. His occupation is recorded as a retired
traveling salesman for the J. I. Case Co. Charlotte died of pneumonia on 30 December
1932 in Ravenna, Nebraska, and is buried with her husband at the Mt. Washington
Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.
Porter, Eben F.—Enlisted 7 August 1862, 20 years old, as a private in Co. F, 84 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; brown hair; gray eyes; born Pleasant
Township, Fulton County, Illinois. Dropped as deserter 21 June 1864. Honorably
discharged 30 May 1867 to date of 24 November 1862, the date of his furlough.
Porter, Eben F.—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois: 17 year
old laborer working on the farm of John Fitzhenry (36 years old).
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Porter, Eben F.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Susan Lacey (born 10 June 1844 near Ipava) in Pleasant Township (Fulton)
Illinois on 21 December 1865. Their children: Hettie M. born 17 October 1866; Florence
C. born 18 November 1870; and Charlotte born 16 February 1873 (Charlotte
Bartholomew in 1901).
“The claimant is a big stout hearty-looking man. The deponent, R. M. Miller, informed
me that for many years after the war this claimant was looked on as a deserter—that his
name so appears in the regimental history, and that none of the old comrades would have
anything to do with him. But that after he had been pensioned and they learned that he
had secured an honorable discharge, they ‘let up on him’ and since then he has been
mingling with them, attending reunions, etc.”—Pension Bureau investigator, 1901
Eben suffered from chronic diarrhea during the war, and was given a discharge furlough
to go home. His brother-in-law, Alfred Call of Cuba, Illinois, took him home. He was
confined to his home all winter. He continued to suffer from “gastritis” during his
lifetime.
After the war he resided in Pleasant Township (Fulton) Illinois for 12 years farming; then
went to Table Grove (Fulton) Illinois to operate a milling business for 9 years.
He died 28 April 1905 at Table Grove of pulmonary tuberculosis and cancer of the
stomach. Susan died 29 April 1908.
Pratt, Henry C.—Enlisted 28 July 1862 as a Private, 18 years old, in Co. B, 84 th
Infantry. Mustered out 8 June 1865 at Camp Harker, Tennessee. Description at
enlistment: 5’5” tall, dark hair, grey eyes, farmer. Born 1 May 1844 at Williamsburg
(Brown) Ohio. Died 11 July 1928, at National Military Home at Leavenworth, Kansas.
Pratt, Henry C.--Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, D.C.: In
1921, he stated that he had been “a member of this Home [National Military Home] for
over 30 years . . . . Have been badly handicapped ever since losing my right hand and
arm, now only waiting the final call.” “My right arm was lost at Weavers farm about 4
miles southeast of Ipava, Fulton Co., Illinois in a thrashing machine while thrashing
clover on the 12 th day of November 1872, and was amputated same day by Dr. Ball,
Ipava, Illinois. My right leg was broken while driving a baggage wagon loaded heavily
with baggage at Centralia, Neweha, Kansas on the 2 nd day of May 1887—the wagon was
upset and my leg was broken below the knee . . . .”
After the war he lived in Illinois until 1886 and Kansas until 1912. He married Laura
Alice Hanna 25 October [no year] in Ipava. His wife had died by 1915. Their children:
Charles Elmer born 12 January 1868; L. H. born October 1870; James born February
1874; Frank born April 1876; Cora Alice born July 1882; Larra or Lorna May born April
1886.
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Ray, Isaac H.—Enlisted 14 August 1862 as Sergeant, 30 years old, in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Deserted 15 May 1863 while home on furlough. Description at enlistment:
6’1” tall, dark hair, blue eyes, born Orange Co., North Carolina.
Ray, Isaac H.—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois: 28 year
old farmer born in North Carolina. His wife is Tanesha (29) also born in North Carolina.
Their children: Janny (4) born in North Carolina; Julia (2) born in Illinois; and James (8
months).
Reese, George Whitefield—Enlisted 1 September 1861 as a Private, 21 years old, in Co.
H, 28 th Infantry. Discharged 4 September 1864 at expiration of term. Description at
enlistment: 5’5” tall, brown hair, blue eyes, school teacher. Born near Fairview
(Gurnsey) Ohio on 17 October 1838. Died in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois on 31 October
1919.
George W. Reese Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Anna Amanda Bonhan 25 December 1866 in New Philadelphia, Ohio. She died
10 September 1893. Their children: Edwin P. born 3 November 1867; Mary K. and Burt
P. (twins) born 29 April 1869; Phillip F. born 4 February 1873; George W. Jr., born 7
June 1878; Mildred C. born 3 August 1881. All born in Ohio. On April 6, 1862, at
Shiloh, Mississippi, he was wounded in the right hand by buckshot passing through the
third finger at the knuckle rendering the finger stiff and standing at an angle of 90
degrees. Since then the finger was useless and much in the way of working. He “was not
treated in Hospital for this wound, not deeming it necessary to do so. I dressed it myself.
There were hundreds of others who were at that time more severely wounded.”
Unfortunately for him, his sister, Mrs. Clara A. Roberts, testified in 1908 that he actually
hurt the finger in Ohio after the war. He admitted that he made up the story to get a
pension. He worked in lumber yards, was a timekeeper on the railroad, and did odd jobs
of all kinds.
After the war he resided in Newtown, Ohio; 1868 in New Philadelphia, Ohio; October
1873 moved to Westchester, Ohio, and in April 1884 moved to Lewistown, Illinois.
He presented a copied page from the family bible, which was destroyed in 1888, stating
that he was the eldest son of A.T. and Mary Reese, and was born on Wednesday, October
17 th A.D. 1838. A.T. Reese was the son of Solomon and Ann Houston Reese, and was
born September 24, 1806. Mary Gamble, wife of A.T. Reese, was born July 3 rd 1813.
A.T. Reese and Mary Gamble were married March 27 th A.D. 1836.
Roberts, Garrett—Enlisted 13 August 1861, as a private in Co. H, 3 rd Cavalry.
Discharged for disability at Rolla, Missouri.
Ross, Nathaniel—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 32 years old, in Co. C, 151 st
Infantry. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Description at
enlistment: 5’5” tall, light hair, blue eyes, wheelwright. Born in Ohio.
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Ross, Nathaniel--1860 US Census for Ipava (Fulton) Illinois: Naomi, wife (25); William
M., (5); Eugene (3); Martha L. (2), Samuel Ross, (23) a teacher.
Smith, Robert W.—Enlisted 21 August 1862, 21 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born in Fulton County,
Illinois. Deserted July 1863 from Haynes Bluff, Mississippi.
Smith, Robert W.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois on 2 November 1840. He enlisted 23 July 1861 and
transferred to the Navy on 29 January 1862. He deserted the Navy on 4 July 1862.
Enlisted in Co. I, 103 rd Infantry on 21 August 1862 and deserted 20 June 1863.
In June 1862 he was shot in the left leg between the knee and ankle near Woodville
Landing, Arkansas, while on leave of absence issued by the Captain of Gunboat Cairo
(Mississippi Gunboat Flotilla). He was captured by General Price’s men and paroled at
Homerville, Arkansas.
Robert married Catherine Jackson in Mason County, Illinois, on 13 July 1870. Their
children: William M. born 11 November 1870; Ida May born 12 April 1874; Charles L.
born 1878; and Catherine V. born 1894.
He resided in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois until 1880. Moved to Dover (Kingfisher) Oklahoma
Territory in 1890. In 1912 his address was 1397 West 58 th St., Los Angeles, California.
In 1914 his address was 255 North 7 th St., San Jose, California.
Snider, Orvill—Enlisted 21 August 1862, 18 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born in Pike County,
Illinois. Killed 25 November 1863 at Missionary Ridge.
Snider, Orvill—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Orvill and his brother, William H. Snider, were both killed on 25 November 1863 at
Missionary Ridge. Their mother, Dinah Haffield, died 29 September 1863. She married
their father, Simon J. Snider of Joplin (Jasper) Missouri on 30 December 1830 in
Clermont County, Ohio. The other children of Dinah and Simon were: Zachery T. and
Winfield S. (twins) born May 1848; Amanda J. born 3 June 1851; and Ephus M. born 4
February 1855.
When the elder Simon “fell dead in Barry County, Missouri, December 1, 1882” [Noble
Gaines, 1883], his son Simon P. applied for the pension, as his brothers were his main
source of support: “I have been more or less dependent ever since I was thirteen years
old, my health being very bad on account of losing one of my limbs my right leg by hip
joint disease when only thirteen years old.”—S. P. Snider, 1883.
Sturgeon, Simpson—Enlisted 22 July 1861 as a Private, 20 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Died 3 May 1863 at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri. Description at
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enlistment: 6’ 1 ½” tall, black hair, hazel eyes. Born Sangamon Co., Illinois. Buried in
Ipava Cemetery (Fulton) Illinois.
Thomas, Erastus L.—Enlisted 1 September 1861 as a Private, 19 years old, in Co. H,
28 th Infantry. Promoted to corporal. Discharged 4 September 1864 at expiration of term
at Natchez, Mississippi. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall, light hair, hazel eyes, born
Fulton County, Illinois. Died 12 June 1927 in Quincy, Illinois. Brother of Robert T.
Thomas.
Thomas, Erastus L.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Born 22 April 1842 in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois. Married Jane Dixon in Aledo
(Mercer) Illinois on 15 July 1873. She died in 1881. They had no children, but Miss Ella
Brick of Canton, Illinois, was his niece. Erastus claimed rheumatism of his back,
shoulders, and left knee.
He lived in Bushnell, Illinois from 1864 to 1868; Gardner, Kansas from 1868 to 1870;
Osborne (DeKalb) Missouri from 1870 to 1907; and from 1907 he lived at Quincy,
Illinois, in the Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home.
Thomas, Robert T.—Enlisted 1 September 1861 as a Private, 23 years old, in Co. H,
28 th Infantry. Reenlisted 5 January 1864 for 3 years at Natchez, Mississippi. Mustered
out 15 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Description at enlistment: 5’8 ¾” tall, red
hair, blue eyes. Born in Fulton Co. Illinois on 8 October 1838. Married Elizabeth A.
Koons (1843- 27 May, 1909) at the Hotel Standard House in Lewistown on 18 September
1867. They had twins who died on 16 May 1868 and 4 June 1868. Thomas died 22
December 1915 in Astoria, Illinois. Burial at Ipava Cemetery (Fulton) Illinois. Brother
of Erastus L. Thomas.
Robert T. Thomas Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
At Mobile, Alabama got rheumatism and chronic diarrhea the summer of 1865, which
affected his spine and kidneys. He weighed 168 pound at enlistment and at discharge
weighed 86 pounds.
He and Elizabeth had 3 children living in 1895: Etta M. born 18 July 1869; Arzwla born
18 December 1871; and Mary E. born 24 January 1876. After the war he lived in
Missouri for 1 ½ years, in Nebraska for two years, and the rest in Fulton County, Illinois.
As an older man he lived with his daughter, Emma, in Astoria. On October 1, 1915, he
was robbed of his pension papers and $20 or $25 by two young pickpockets at a railroad
passenger depot in Canton, Illinois. He died a few months later, on 22 December 1915.
Thompson, Isaac—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 20 years old, in Co. D, 151 st
Infantry. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Description at
enlistment: 5’4 ½” tall, auburn hair, hazel eyes. Born 20 September 1834, Harrison
County, Ohio. Died in Moro, Oregon, on 22 July 1924.
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Thompson, Isaac—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
“… latter part of the month of March 1865 while at Dalton in the State of Georgia, and
while in the line of duty and without fault or improper conduct on my part and while
making a night march through the railroad tunnel at Tunnel Hill in the State of Georgia,
I received a serious bruise and injury to the left leg by a fall on the railroad . . . injury
was proved to be permanent . . .” [1885] He fell through a railroad bridge spraining his
left ankle, bruising the tibia and knee of the same leg, and was unfit for duty for two
months.
Married Mary Ann Easley 22 May 1856 in Ipava by John Lewis, Justice of the Peace.
The marriage was recorded in their bible. She died 4 March 1909. On his application on
June 19, 1898, he wrote “The old gall [let’s assume he meant “gal”] is living and 64 years
old.” Asked the names of his living children in June of 1898, they were: Elwood born 18
January 1861; Jessie B. born 10 February 1863; Richard Easley born 20 March 1867;
Bertha Adella born 26 March 1870; Vincent G. born 3 August 1873; Aaron born 29
November 1876; Florence Edith born 24 February 1859; and Sarah Elizabeth born 5
March 1857.
“I will ad a fiew lines here my wife Mary Ann Thompson Died March 4 1909, with
Brights Diseas and since her Death I have lived a lone, her and I lived to gether 52 years
9 months and 10 Days.” [March 20, 1915; spelling as in original]
In 1910 he broke his hip. 1911 he is living in Trout Lake (Klickitat) Washington. 1920
finds him a resident of Moro (Sherman) Oregon, living with his daughter and son-in-law,
Neil McDonald.
Thompson, James Mendenhall—Enlisted 21 March 1864 as a Private, 19 years old, in
Co. H, 28 th Infantry. Mustered out 15 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Description at
enlistment: 5’5” tall, sandy hair, grey eyes. Born in Morgan Co. or Harrison Co., on 4
January 1845. Ohio. Died 8 October 1912. Burial at Leon Cemetery, Butler County,
Kansas.
Thompson, James M.--Civil War Pension Application—National Archives, Washington,
DC: James’ parents were Barak Thompson and Elizabeth Mendenhall, both born in
England. James married Mary Ann White at Ipava on 25 May 1871. Their children:
Eurana [] born 30 May 1872; Lillie born 3 August 1874; Luvada born 24 September
1879; John W. born 8 August 1881; Maggie born 19 August 1883.
During the war James was treated for sore eyes. After the war he engaged in the
hardware and tin business because the sun hurt his eyes while farming. His sister-in-law
was Mary Jane Easley.
Thompson, John S.—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 23 years old, in Co. D,
151 st Infantry. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Description at
enlistment: 5’ 6 ¼” tall, light hair, hazel eyes. Born 12 May 1841 in Morgan County,
Ohio. Died 2 July 1921 at Ipava, Illinois.
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Thompson, John S.-- Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Married Amanda Elizabeth Harwick 19 February 1866 in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois.
She died 14 September 1914. Their children: Mary Jane 25 November 1867; Susie Alice
26 August 1869; Elmer Barie 21 September 1871; Thomas Jefferson 2 November 1873;
Ella Ann 10 October 1875; Carrie Mattie 9 September 1877; Starlie Aron 9 February
1881; Ida May 9 October 1883; Nellie Persina 7 June 1886; Lizzie Bell 5 March 1888;
Myrtle Mytilda and Harry Worth (twins) born 14 January 1891; Johnny Lee 4 April
1896.
On June 20, 1865, while standing guard on a platform at the railroad depot at Adairsville,
Georgia, he was either pushed off the platform by John Ingram or was pushed off by
comrades who crowded the platform. He fell on iron nails of the railroad track and
injured his back. He slowly improved over the next three weeks until a march in July
1865 to Cartersville, Georgia, when Isaac Hughes had to carry John’s knapsack and gun
the entire distance.
1865 to 1890 resided in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois; 1890 to 1912 in Friend (Saline) Nebraska.
Died 2 July 1921 in Bernadotte (Fulton) Illinois.
Todd, Robert James Neomia—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 18 years old, in
Co. D, 151 st Infantry. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Description
at enlistment: 5’10 ½” tall, brown hair, dark eyes, mason. Died 23 March 1913 in
Youngstown, Ohio.
Todd, Robert J. N.-- Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born 4 March 1847 in Illinois. His father was also named Robert, and was born in Ohio.
Robert J. N. Todd married Mary E. S. McBrayer, but they were divorced in 1891 in Knox
County, Illinois. She lived in Atlanta, Illinois, in 1932. They had no children.
He married Agnes Bridget Carr on 11 February 1892 in Galesburg (Knox) Illinois. She
was born 9 September 1865 in Boston, Massachusetts. Their children: George E. born 8
November 1892; Agnes Viola born 14 October 1894.
Robert suffered a partial loss of hearing due to a heavy cold gotten by marching in rain,
sleet, snow between Nashville and Murphysboro, Tennessee.
From Deposition of Agnes B. Todd (wife), at Youngstown (Mahoning) Ohio, 1926: My
maiden name was Agnes Bridget Carr, born September 9, 1865, in Boston, Mass.,
daughter of Ellen and Martin Carr, and they came from England to America about 2 years
before I was born. We lived in Boston until I was about 4 years old, and then my parents
came here to Youngstown, Ohio, and they remained here until their death after I was
married. I lived with my parents until I was married. I became acquainted with soldier
through correspondence. He got hold of my name and address in some way, unknown to
me, and wrote to me from the home of his sister, Mrs. Sarah A. Hanes then the wife of
Sam Hanes, in Galesburg, Ill., and I was in correspondence with him some months and
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ecame engaged to him through correspondence, and he invited me out after I arrived
there. We were married at the home of Rev. Stertevant, and the niece of Mr. Todd, Alice
M. Hanes and the housekeeper for Rev. Stertevant, were witnesses to our marriage,
February 11, 1892. I lived with soldier in Galesburg, Ill until spring of 1894, when we
moved to Oneida, Ill., nearly 2 years. Then moved to Chillicothe, Ill., nearly a year.
Then we moved here to Youngstown, Ohio, and continued to live here until the death of
soldier, Mar 23, 1913, and I have lived in this city ever since his death . . .
. . . and his first wife was Mary McBrayer. I do not know where he married her,
but think he lived with her at Atlanta, Ill., and I heard she deserted him, and he got a
divorce from her. Soldier had tole me he was a widower before our marriage, and I had
supposed his first wife was dead until after our marriage when some of our neighbors told
me he had been divorced from his first wife . . . . He had brothers Moses and Josiah I
know are dead, and he had brothers Frank and Alonzo living the last I knew of before the
World War was the last I knew of them. I never saw Frank and do not remember where
he lived, but Alonzo Todd, lived in Galesburg, Ill, when I lived there with his daughter
Mable . . . . Josiah had a son Johnathan Marion Todd, who lived with his aunt Mrs. Sarah
A. Hanes. Soldier had a sister Mrs. Laura Weeks . . . . He had other sisters, Melissa, and
Zella, and another sister whose name I do not remember. Melissa was the wife of
Marshall Bruner, living in Galesburg, Ill, and afterward moved to Chicago, Ill . . .but he
was a traveling salesman. . . . I have two brothers and two sisters living. Brother Peter F.
Carr, prospector, last known address, Tonopaugh, Nev. . . . Brother Martin Carr, this
city, 516 Wilkinson Ave.. Sister Ellen, called Nell, wife of John P. Sheridan, a business
agt. for some labor unions, in Cleveland, Ohio. Sister Mary wife of John McLaughlin,
this city . . . “
Todd, Josiah W.—Enlisted 8 December 1861 as a Private, 17 years old, in Co. G, 11 th
Cavalry. Reenlisted 20 December 1863 at Clear Creek, Mississippi. Mustered out 14
July 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall, dark hair, grey
eyes, wagon maker. Born in Illinois. Brother to Robert J. N. Todd, above.
Todd, Josiah W.--Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married
Mary Louisa Shusher or Slusher on 19 November 1868. She died 13 January 1887 in
Atlanta, Illinois, on TB. Burial at Atlanta Cemetery. They apparently had four children,
the youngest was Harold Todd, born in Atlanta, Illinois, on 30 May 1885. Josiah was a
wagon maker.
Josiah W. Todd died in Edwards (Peoria) Illinois 21 August 1898 by an overdose of
laudanum administered himself but not with suicidal intent, stated the coroner of Peoria
County, Illinois.
Harold was given to the guardianship of Martha Starr in 1898.
Underwood, Jacob—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 24 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; black hair; hazel eyes; born in Carter
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County, Kentucky. Discharged November 1863 at Memphis for disability. Died 13
January 1892 in Ipava (Fulton) Illinois.
Valentine, Miller—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 24 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’11” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born in Monmouth
County, New Jersey. Mustered out 21 June 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Warfield, Andrew—Enlisted 15 August 1862, 33 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; brown hair; hazel eyes; married; born in
Lacon County, Ohio. Absent sick at muster out on 21 June 1865.
White, Jacob C.-- Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 18 years old, in Co. D, 151 st
Infantry. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Description at
enlistment: 5’ 4 ½” tall, auburn hair, grey eyes. Born in Virginia.
Wileman, Abner G.—Enlisted 4 August 1862, 36 years old, as a private in Co. B, 84 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’11” tall; light hair; blue eyes; married, born in stark
County, Ohio. Killed at Battle of Stone River 31 December 1862.
Wileman, Abner G.—1860 US Census, Pleasant Township, Fulton County, Illinois: 35
year old farmer born in Ohio. His wife is Margaret (30) and their children are: Louisa
(10); Arthusa (8) and Jane, 3 months.
Wileman, Abner G.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington,
DC: Married Margaret Hoopes in Fulton County, Illinois, on 9 March 1850. Their
children: Louisa born 29 November 1850; Mary Jane born 18 September 1860/61; and
Emelin (Emma) born 21 January 1862. In 1887 Mary Jane testified that Louisa was 36
years old, Emma was 24; Mary was 26; Arthusa born July 1852 had died by 1887.
S. H. Thomas wrote to the Pension Board on Margaret’s behalf in 1863:
“They are all poor, very poor; this one is really destitute and was not long since
at my office inquiring “how long will they be sending me my dues!” In view of the
coming winter and her destitute children she wept bitterly; said that she must suffer if it
did not come. I paid out of my own pocket the $1 for her certified copy of the marriage
record not expecting to ever get a cent in return; and now your order compels her to go
to the county seat (20 miles), take two friends with her as vouchers, which will cost her
no less than $3, employ a shark (attorney) to do her writing and then pay an infamous
Copperhead Judge to administer the oaths or abandon all hope of getting any thing in
lieu of the support of the husband and father before he gave his life on the battlefields.
Many destitute women have had to wait long for their dues (back pay, bounty, etc) and
the traitorous Copperheads have in every instance made them believe that the
government will ___ them; we have striven to keep them in good heart. How long we
shall succeed is yet to be seen. In some of these cases the nearest relatives living are
Villainous Copperheads. One of these women walked 15 miles because there are men
near me who could vouch for her, and not one of them can get to a Judge without
traveling 15 to 20 miles.”
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Margaret died 27 December 1893, as reported by J. A. Hoopes, executor of her estate.
His letterhead showed him as the proprietor of Ipava Mills, dealer of flour, feed, seeds,
grain, etc.
Wiley, Jesse W.—Enlisted 1 September 1861 as a Private, 25 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Discharged for wounds 24 July 1862 at St. Louis, Missouri. Description at
enlistment: 5’7 ½” tall, black hair, brown eyes. Born 28 March 1836 in Pennsville
(Morgan) Ohio. Died 20 October 1926 in Osborn, Missouri.
Wiley, Jesse W.--Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Suffered a gunshot wound at the battle of Pittsburg Landing on 6 April 1862. The ball
entered the lower part of the calf of his right leg. He married Amanda A. Miller on 16
April 1863 in Lewistown, Illinois. Their children: Ema born 27 October 1863; Sherman
R. born 4 March 1865; Joseph Wilmer born 24 March 1867; Clara L. born 23 December
1869; Mattie M. born 27 May 1872; and Jessie M. born 1 June 1877. In 1904 Jesse was
living in Osborn (Dekalb) Missouri, dying there on 28 October 1926. He had also lived
in Ipava and Carthage, Illinois.
Wilkins, John W.—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 18 years old, in Co. D, 151 st
Infantry. Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia. Description at
enlistment: 5’5 ½” tall, light hair, blue eyes. Born in Illinois. Died 24 April 1914 in
Quincy, Illinois, at the Soldiers and Sailors Home, Cottage 151, Quincy, Illinois.
Wilkins, John W.--Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born 1 March 1846 in Fulton County, Illinois. No record exits of his birth. In October
1871 he married Mary Ann Harman. No children were living in 1898. Lived in Fulton
County since the War, and in 1912 was living in Summum.
Wilkins, Ralph—Enlisted 15 August 1861 as a Private, 23 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’4 ½” tall, brown hair, brown eyes, married. Born
in Clay Co., Indiana.
Wilkins, William C.—Enlisted 15 February 1865 as a Private, 18 years old, in Co. D,
151 st Infantry. Absent sick, no discharge given on June 13, 1865. Also served in Co. A,
10 th Missouri Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’3 ½” tall, light hair, blue eyes. Born
in Illinois. Died 13 January 1921 in Soldiers Home in Quincy, Illinois.
Wood, Aaron—Enlisted 14 March 1864 as a Private in Co. H, 28 th Infantry. Mustered
out 6 March 1866 at Brownsville, Texas. Description at enlistment: 5’ 11 ½” tall, light
hair, hazel eyes. Born in Jefferson County, Ohio.
Wood, Aaron-- Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Rebecca J. McCamant on 24 June 1869 in Fulton County, Illinois. In 1905 their
address was RFD#1, Golden (Jefferson) Colorado. Aaron’s father was born in
Pennsylvania, and his mother’s maiden name was Mendenhall. Aaron died on 11
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November 1905 of TB in Gibson (McKinley) New Mexico while traveling back to
Colorado. He is buried in Golden Cemetery, Colorado. He was 56 years old. He was the
brother of Oliver Wood. Friends living in Golden Colorado: John C. Davidson and
Charles H. Easley.
Affidavit by Steve Cadwalader of Lawson, (Clear Creek) Colorado, dated 11 January
1898:”I was in the Golden thread mine at the time that the box of giant caps exploded
and I ran out of the mine as soon as I heard the explosion and found Mr. Wood standing
up leaning against the side of the blacksmith shop. His face was cut in a dozen places and
covered with blood. I took him to my house and wash the blood from his face and took
him to the train and sent him to Idaho Springs to the doctor.”
Wood, Eli—Enlisted 15 August 1861 as a Private in Co. H, 8 th Infantry. Killed 6 April
1862 at Shiloh, Tennessee. Description at enlistment: 6’1” tall, brown hair, blue eyes,
cabinetmaker. Born in Morgan Co., Ohio. Burial site 1974 Shiloh National Military
Park, Shiloh, Tennessee 38376
Wood, Oliver—Enlisted 1 September 1861 as a private, 23 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Reenlisted as Veteran Volunteer 5 January 1864 at Natchez, Mississippi,
Became a Hospital Steward 14 July 1865. Mustered out 15 March 1866 at Brownsville,
Texas. Born 14 August 1840 to Josiah and Lydia (Mendenhall) in Morgan County, Ohio.
Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall, brown hair, black eyes, cabinetmaker. Died 2 October
1921 in Ipava, Illinois. Burial at Ipava Cemetery (Fulton) Illinois.
Wood, Oliver-- Civil War Pension Application—National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Sarah Elizabeth Farquhar in Ipava on 4 April 1867. She died in October 1881.
Their children: Joseph Russell, born 30 March 1868 in Ipava—eventually owned
furniture, carpets and rugs store in Ipava; Ann Elisabeth born 11 January 1870; Mary Eva
born 19 August 1872; Katharine Worrell born 13 November 1874 and died 29 November
1949; Florence Emma born 17 February 1877; Sussanna F. born 7 July 1879.
Oliver was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh when he was “struck with a spent ball on
larynx and prominent bone of neck.” He was a cabinetmaker. He was “accidently
killed,” but I found no details on this fact.
Wren, James O.—Enlisted 21 August 1862, 18 years old, as a private in Co. I, 103 rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; brown hair; hazel eyes; born in Piatte
County, Ohio. Discharged for disability March 1863.
Yost, Elijah M.—Enlisted 1 September 1861 as a Private, 22 years old, in Co. H, 28 th
Infantry. Received disability discharge 22 October 1862 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Description at enlistment: 5’4” tall, dark hair, black eyes. Born in Mifflin Co.,
Pennsylvania, on 4 August 1835.
Yost, Elijah M.-- Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Married Mary M. Tidrick, 28 March 1868, at Brown Hotel by a Presbyterian preacher in
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McComb (McDonough) Illinois. Their children: Ella C. born 1870; Zulema E. 1872;
John M. 1875; Nora C. 1878. After the war he resided: Missouri 5 to 6 years, 1880 in
Chambersville (Dade) Missouri; then Kansas. Died 1 September 1919 at Chetopa
(Labette) Kansas, at the Western Branch Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
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