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

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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