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

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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