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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 20
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 21
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