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

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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