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Civil War Soldiers from Union Township, including Avon, (Fulton County) Illinois

August 2013, November 2014—These men volunteered for the Civil War from Union 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.

Aringdale, Francis—Enlisted 20 August 1862, 22 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; dark hair; black eyes; born in Newark (Licking) Ohio. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.

Aringdale, Francis—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 1 November 1840 in Columbus (Licking) Ohio. Married Lucy Wilson 24 May 1866 in Macomb, Illinois. Lucy died 8 September 1907. Their children: Marshall Sherman born 12 May 1866; Mahala Josephine born 5 September 1869; Frank born 28 January 1872; and J. Wilson born 5 November 1874.

“I knew Francis Aringdale when he was a boy 16 years of age. When I became acquainted with him I lived in Greenbush Township, Warren County, Illinois. He lived there with his father about 6 miles from me. His father had a threshing machine and Francis Aringdale used to work with his father for a number of years.”—Isaac Morgan, 1894

“I knew Francis Aringdale before he enlisted. He was living with his mother. He married a niece of mine. He worked for others. He was really a hard working young man before enlistment. Aringdale married my niece after he returned from the army, although I believe they corresponded together while he was in the army.”—A. P. Potter, 1894

“During the years 1857, 1858, and 1859 I lived at the edge of Warren County, Illinois. My PO address was Avon, Illinois. I lived with my parents in Greenbush Township. During 1860 -1861, I lived with my parents in Union Township, Fulton County Illinois and Avon was our PO address. . . . My parents are dead. My brother J. B. Aringdale lives about 2 ½ miles south of Hermon, Illinois. My brother Charles lives near Columbus City, Louisa County, Iowa. My brother James lives in Appaloosa County, Iowa. My brother George is in Nebraska.”—Francis Aringdale, 1893

Sarah Allen (Mrs. John Allen) of Crawfordsville, Iowa is his sister. Francis and William M. Reed were good friends during the war. They were from the same neighborhood and Reed kept an eye out for Aringdale. Reed read Francis’ letters to him and wrote letters for Francis. They tented together and shared their troubles with each other. “Henry Haney, Francis Aringdale, Christopher P. Fisher, John Hartley and I were close friends and messed and tented together.”—William M. Reed

A bullet entered the back of his arm and exited through his forearm at the Battle of Missionary Ridge on 28 November 1863. From the field hospital he was furloughed home for three months

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and then joined the regiment at Scottsboro, Alabama. “. . . at first when I commenced to make out papers for a pension I did sign by mark, but that I have now learned to write my name and that I write my name to all papers signed by me now.”—Francis Aringdale, November 2, 1900

Aringdale lived in Avon and Ellisville after the war. In 1906 he was in Centerville, Iowa. He died 1 October 1919. Aringdale, Francis—Obituary, Avon (Fulton) Illinois, publication unknown: Francis Aringdale, an old resident of Union township and a veteran of the Civil War, died Wednesday morning, October 1, 1919 at 9:30 o’clock, at the home of his son, Sherman, in Avon, after a brief illness. Just one week before his death he returned from a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Sherman Struble, at Sheldon, North Dakota. The following day he suffered a slight stroke of paralysis from which he rallied nicely, but on Saturday morning he had another stroke, more severe and remained unconscious until his death on Wednesday morning. Francis Aringdale, son of John and Mahala Aringdale, was born near Newark, Ohio, November 1, 1840, and died in Avon, Illinois, October 1, 1919 aged 78 years and 11 months. At the age of nine years, he moved with his parents to Fulton county, Illinois, locating on a farm near Canton. After some changes they located on a farm in the eastern part of Union township, now owned by R. S. Ewing, where he grew to manhood. In August 1862, he enlisted in Co. B, 103d Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served until the close of the war, being honorably discharged at Louisville, Ky., in September, 1865. On May 24, 1866 he was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Wilson, who was born in New Jersey, March 24, 1844. To this union four children were born, namely, Marshall S. of Avon, Mahala Josephine, wife of Sherman Struble of Sheldon, North Dakota, Frank, who died November 17, 1848 at Cincinnati, Iowa, and John W. who resides on a farm east of Avon. There are fifteen grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. He is also survived by four brothers and one sister, namely, James of Cincinnati, Iowa, John of Osceola, Iowa, Charles of Columbus Junction, Iowa, George of St. Augustine, and Mrs. Rebecca Bancroft of Brighton, Iowa. His companion died September 8, 1907 after which time he retired from active farm life and has made his home with his children. In politics he was a supporter of the Republican party and in religious belief was in harmony with the teachings of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a companionable and well informed man, observing the world from a wide range, and retaining strong faith in the goodness of mankind. [Missing] Methodist church at 3:00 o’clock, Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. T. W. Thompson of Kirkwood, formerly pastor at Avon, assisted by the Rev. L. J. Sailor, who succeeds Rev. Thompson as pastor of the local church. There was a large attendance, among the number being many of his old friends from the country east of Avon. Nine comrades of the Civil War were present. The sermon by Rev. Thompson was well suited to the occasion. The singing was by a quartet, composed of Rev. and Mrs. L. J. sailor, Miss Lucretia Staggs and Ernest Baker, with Miss Ethel Nance presiding at the organ. The selections were “When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder,” “There’ll Be No Dark Valley,” and “Under His Wing.” At the close of the services the remains were laid to rest in the family lot in the Avon cemetery. The casket bearers were three brothers, James, John and Charles, and three grandsons, Lloyd and Glen Aringdale and Ernest Struble.

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Frank Aringdale Barbour, Robert—Enlisted 2 May 1864, 19 years old, in Co. C, 138 Infantry as a private. Mustered out 14 October 1864 in Springfield, Illinois. Description at enlistment: 6’ tall, brown hair; gray eyes; farmer. Born in Brookville, Indiana. Died4 August 1918.

Barrett, Edward Porter—Enlisted 10 September 1861 as 2 Lt. in Co. G, 50 Infantry. Promoted to 1st Lt. in Co. G 103 Infantry, 34 years old. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; brown hair, gray eyes; married, carpenter. Born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. Barrett, Edward Porter—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Susan Perses Hildreth of Chesterfield, New Hampshire, on 27 July 1848 in Battleboro, Vermont. Susan died on 17 April 1913. Their children: Jennie A. Johnson born 1867, and O.H. born in 1861. Edward suffered a hernia caused by a spent ball at Ft. Donelson. He also lost his teeth from scurvy.

“About ten days after their marriage, I went to live with them and have resided with them ever since until Mr. Barrett died last April, with the exception of one year.”—Ellen A. Rycum, Susan Barrett’s sister, 1894. “I was well acquainted with Edward P. Barrett in his younger days, as he lived in my father’s family when he was a boy.”—Sarah J. Rixford, 1898.

In 1894 Charles lived in Holden (Johnson) Missouri. “. . . although having been in business and trade for this time, he has laid up nothing for his widow having had unlucky investments.”—B.F. Bowen, 1894.

Edward died 21 April 1894, with burial at Holden Cemetery. Susan Barrett died 17 April 1913.

Bays, Levi B.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 35 years old, as a private in Co. I, 72 Infantry. Promoted to Corporal 20 September 1862. Mustered out 7 August 1865 at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall, black hair; hazel eyes; married; mechanic. Born Hardin County, Kentucky.

Bays, Levi B.--1860 U.S. Census, Avon, Fulton County, Illinois: Levi Bays is 31 years old, a shingle maker, and was born in Kentucky. Lydia, his 26 year old wife, was born in Tennessee. Their children: Clara 6, William 4, Albert 3, and George 2, all born in Illinois. Also living with them is Jacob Schenk, a 24 year old shingle maker and his wife Mary, 22 years old. They have a

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6-month old daughter, Anna. [see Jacob Schanck’s listing for an interesting story.] Elizabeth Edwinson (24) a seamstress, is also living with the Levi family.

Bays, Levi B.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Lydia A. Edmondson in Knox County, Illinois, on 11 November 1852. John W. Bays of Abingdon (Knox) Illinois is his brother. He owned a photography business because he was sickly and could no longer work as a carpenter. His disability pension was based on chronic diarrhea, catarrh of bladder; apoplexy attack on 24 November 1880 which led to paralysis. Another doctor diagnosed him with diabetes, which led to a recurrence of cerebral hemorrhage. Levi B. Bays died in Lewistown, Illinois, of paralysis on 28 August 1881. Burial Oakhill Cemetery, Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois. Bishop, Ira E.—Enlisted 6 May 1864, 18 years old, as a private in Co. E, 138 Infantry. Mustered out 21 June 1864 in Springfield, Illinois. Description at enlistment: 5’4” tall; light hair; gray eyes; born LaHarpe, Illinois.

Bishop, James—Enlisted 6 May 1864, 45 years old, in Co. E, 138 Infantry. Mustered out 14 October 1864 in Springfield, Illinois. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; black hair; gray eyes; married; carpenter. Born Derham, Canada.

Bishop, James—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 3July 1819 in New York and moved to Hancock County, Illinois in 1839. Married Scharlotte Jane Arnold on 26 January 1845 in Stark County, Illinois. Scharlotte was born in Athens County, Ohio, on 23 April 1823, and she went to Hancock County, Illinois in 1844.

Their children: Rufus Roe born 28 April 1860 and living in Oakland, California in 1929; and Ira born 1846. James and Ira enlisted together. James came down with cholera at Leavenworth, Kansas, and was discharged. The record indicates that Ira was discharged too and told to escort James home.

James was shot by parties unknown in September 1883 and died from his wounds on 14 or 26 December 1883 in Hebron, Nebraska. He is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Hebron (Thayer) Nebraska. Scharlotte died 11 July 1892 in Denver, Colorado, and is buried at Riverside Cemetery.

Blain, John H.—Enlisted 19 September 1861, 19 years old, in Co. G 50 Infantry. Reenlisted as a veteran at Decatur Junction, Alabama. Description at enlistment: 5’11” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; born in Muskingum (Waukesha) Wisconsin.

Blain, John H.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: John married three times, the first in Leavenworth (Kansas) in February 1860; the second in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1871; and the last in Minnesota. He failed to give the names of his wives in the pension application.

At Shiloh, Tennessee, on April 6, 1862, he was shot in the upper right arm and left thigh. Terry McGhee took him to the hospital at Shiloh, and eventually he was admitted to the hospital steamer “Empress.” Apparently recovered, on 5 October 1864 “he received a glancing musket ball to the top of his head at the Battle of Altoona, Georgia, while in the rifle pit just on the west side of the deep cut repelling a Rebel charge, knocking him senseless.” He also became partially

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deaf from the concussion.

In 1885 he resided in Quincy (Adams) Illinois; 1898 in Cottage 4 of the Soldiers Home in Quincy, Illinois; and in 1889 in Colorado City, Colorado. He was admitted to the Jacksonville Hospital for the Insane in November 1868 and stayed through 13 May 1869. The doctor who treated him stated that “poor health for 3-4 years and the condition of his physical health no doubt caused his mental alienation. He was discharged improved but was not considered well.”—H. A. Gilman, Iowa Hospital for the Insane 1886. In 1903 he was declared insane and was a resident of the Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville, Illinois. He died 31 March 1909.

Boyles, William Neeley—Enlisted as William Neeley 26 December 1861 as a private, 19 years old, in Co. D, 12 Cavalry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; brown hair; black eyes; married; born in “America.” Deserted 10 May 1862 at Camp Butler, Illinois. Enlisted 6 March 1865 and discharged 5 March 1866. He enrolled under William Neeley for the $400 bounty.

Boyles, William Neeley—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 5 January 1844 in Scarlett County, [?] Illinois. Hiram Boyles of Hennessey (Kingfisher) Oklahoma in 1895 is his brother. William suffered from dysentery, malarial fever, and “bladder gravel,” at Montgomery, Alabama. After 1865 William Neeley lived in Macomb, Illinois; Memphis, Missouri; Phillipsburg, Kansas; Brownsville, Nebraska; and Burlington (Kit Carson) Colorado.

Brant, Daniel S.—Enlisted 17 November 1861, 18 years old, as a private in Co. I, 11 Cavalry. Reenlisted 20 December 1863 at Clear Creek, Mississippi. Mustered out 30 September 1865 in Memphis, Tennessee. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; dark hair; blue eyes; born in Pennsylvania.

Brant, Daniel S.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 20 April 1843 in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. Married Martha LeGay in Atchison, Kansas on 11 January 1867. Their children: Nellie born 20 October 1867; Charles W. born 24 June 1874; Carrie E. born 10 June 1876; and Blanch Gay born 4 June 1882.

They lived in Canton and Farmington (Fulton) Illinois until July 6, 1883 when they moved to California. In 1885 they were in Riverside, California, and by 1888 were in Santa Ynez (Santa Barbara) California.

Daniel Brant died 17 February 1920, with burial at Santa Barbara Cemetery.

Brott, Albert—Enlisted 8 March 1865, 18 years old, as a private in the 83 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’4 ½” tall; light hair; hazel eyes; born in Illinois. Died 5 February 1912 in Viroqua, Wisconsin.

Bybee, Charles H.—Enlisted 1 January 1864, 20 years old, in Co. G, 50 Infantry. Deserted 23 February 1864 at Quincy, Illinois.

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Bybee, Charles H.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Charles was born in 1844 to James and Catherine Howard Bybee, who were married in Harris Township, Fulton Co. Illinois on 9 November 1842. Catherine divorced James for cruelty in 1845, and James died in 1857. Catherine used her maiden name of Howard. Samuel Howard stated that Catherine was a lady of good standing. “She has no means of support except what she earns by washing.”

Charles was sent home on a 30-day furlough with chronic diarrhea. His mother later stated that “he was unable to return, not having means to go to his regiment, he went out with the 14

th Iowa.” He was charged with desertion on 23 February 1864. He enlisted at Grinnell, Iowa, for one year on 5 September 1864, and was wounded at Ft. Davidson, Missouri, on 27 September 1864.

On 24 November 1864 he died of a gunshot wound of the hip received in the battle of Pilot Knob, Missouri. The charge of desertion was not removed because more than 4 months had elapsed between the date of desertion and the date of enlistment under another name of “Henry A. Clem” of Co. D, 14

th Iowa Infantry. Carr, Isham R.—Enlisted 16 December 1862, 24 years old, in Co. K, 16 Cavalry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; light hair; light eyes; married, born in Beardstown (Cass) Illinois. Prisoner of war.

Compton, Jonathan J.—Enlisted 24 September 1861, 43 years old, in Co. G, 50 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8 ½” tall; black hair; hazel eyes. Mustered out 27 September 1864. Born 17 January 1818.

Compton, Jonathan J.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Julia A. Taylor in Jamestown, New York, on 9 April 1840. Julia died 13 May 1913. They raised a large family, but the names of the children were not included in the pension file.

“He was troubled by rheumatism in legs and back and also was troubled very much with weakness or difficulty of the chest. So much so that he was often excused by this deponent from duty and was generally assigned to lite duty, by reason of his grit he kept with his command.”—1888 by Selah W. King, late Captain, Co. G, 50 Illinois Infantry. Jonathan also served as an ambulance driver and had daily duty as Col. Baines’ hostler.

Jonathan died of heart disease 21 May 1887. Burial Avon Cemetery, Fulton County, Illinois.

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Jonathan J. Compton, Avon Cemetery (Fulton) Illinois

Courtesy of Janine Crandell at www.illinoisancestors.org/fulton

Converse, Mervin B.—Enlisted 10 September 1861, 21 years old, as a sergeant in Co. G, 50 Infantry. Appointed sergeant major on 5 May 1862 and transferred to non-commissioned officer staff. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; dark hair; hazel eyes; school teacher; born in Alexandria (Licking) Ohio. Promoted to 1 Lt. of Co. G, 50 Infantry. Resigned 25 August 1864. Reenlisted as a Quartermaster of the 50 Illinois on 9 March 1865 and served until 13 July 1865. Died 10 January 1921 in Springfield, Illinois.

Converse, Mervin B.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 8 October 1839 in Alexandria (Licking) Ohio, he married Sarah Jane Bowman in Springfield (Sangamon) Illinois in December 1864. He moved to Springfield in 1865, and Sarah Jane died there on18 November 1869. His second wife was Emily Jane Watson of Springfield, married 22 December 1870. Before enlistment he taught school, clerked in a store, and worked as a carpenter.

Mervin’s children: Helen Gertrude, born 9 August 1867 and Elizabeth Jennie, born 25 August 1869. Both daughters were unmarried and living with Mervin in 1915.

In 1914 he lived at 1227 South Sixth Street, Springfield, Illinois, dying there on 10 June 1921.

Coy, Henry M.—Enlisted 8 March 1865, 35 years old, as a private in the 83 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; black hair; black eyes; engineer; born in New York. Mustered out 11 May 1865 in Springfield, Illinois.

Coy, Henry M.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: “After my return home I found my family all broke up and from that time till 1873 or 4, I had no permanent

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abiding place.” Married Elizabeth Ann and were divorced in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois in 1870. Married Sarah Elizabeth Scott on 18 October 1886. His children: William E. born 15 July 1862 and of Rudd, Iowa as an adult; Lulu Reeves born on 4 November 1868 and living in Montrose, Iowa. His other child was Minnie Sprague, born 28 November 1872 and the wife of V. W. Sprague of Portland, Oregon in 1897.

Henry’s residences: 1894 Montrose, Iowa; 1899 Portland, Oregon. He worked in a stave mill in 1878.

Currier, Granville H.—Enlisted 1 April 1862 and discharged 23 October 1862 in 12 Cavalry. Enlisted as a corporal, 4 May 1864, 22 years old, in Co. D 137 Infantry. Mustered out 24 September 1864 at Springfield, Illinois. Description at enlistment: 5’ 3 ½” tall; dark hair; hazel eyes; born Clark County, Indiana.

Currier, Granville H.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 7 January 1842 in Elkhart, Indiana, the son of William Currier of Canada and Rebecca Chatterton. Married Phebe D. Hulbert on 13 November 1865. Phebe was born 2 December 1843 in Huron County, Ohio.

Granville Currier was taken prisoner while in action at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia on 14 September 1862 and was paroled. He contracted intermittent fever which developed into epilepsy from exposure while on duty.

Before enlistment he had been a blacksmith. In 1904 he was a merchant in Prescott (Adams) Iowa. At his death on 14 December 1906 his real property was valued at $8000 with a rental value of $50 per month. He owned $4800 in mortgages. Buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Prescott, Iowa. Phebe died 3 December 1916.

Cutler, Leonard W.—Enlisted 30 May 1864, 18 years old, as a private in Co. C, 138 Infantry. Mustered out 14 October 1864 in Springfield, Illinois. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; light hair; gray eyes; born in La Porte, Indiana. Died 21 April 1924 Abingdon, Illinois.

Davis, William H.—Enlisted 12 May 1864, 19 years old, as a private in Co. C, 138 Infantry. Mustered out 14 October 1864 in Springfield, Illinois. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; dark hair; black eyes; born Union County, Illinois.

Davis, William H.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Nancy M. Simmons 2 September 1868 in Monmouth, Illinois. Their children: Ethel born 17 September 1881; William E. born 2 September 1883; and Verna L. born 2 October 1888. William Davis died 16 August 1893 in Avon, Illinois.

Druce, Charles M.—Enlisted 20 November 1863, 18 years old, as a private in Co. K, 12 Cavalry.

Druce, Charles M.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married (unnamed) 23 December 1868. His child is Florence J. born 28 April 1873. Charles Druce died 19 June 1877 in Avon (Lake) Illinois, from lung disease as a result of measles during the

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war. His widow remarried on 27 April 1881. Fielding, Edward—Enlisted 5 December 1863, 21 years old, as a private in Co. C, 59 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; light hair; gray eyes; born in England. Killed at Kenesaw Mountain on 27 June 1864.

Fielding, Edward—1860 Federal Census, Fulton County, Illinois: Edward is 18 years old, born in England. His sisters, Mary (12) and Sarah (11), both born in Illinois, are living with the family of Andrew Maholland of Ireland.

Freeborn, John Fremont—Enlisted 14 August 1862 as a corporal, 30 years old, in Co. I, 72 Infantry. Reduced to ranks 9 October 1863. Discharged for promotion at Vicksburg, Mississippi on 1 March 1864. Description at enlistment: 5’ 11” tall; light hair; blue eyes. Died 11 December 1864. Burial Avon Cemetery, Fulton Co., Illinois.

Photograph courtesy of Janine Crandell at www.illinoisancestors.org/fulton

Freeborn, Porter-Enlisted 14 August 1862,28 years old, in Co. I, 72 lnfantry. Reduced to ranks 9 October 1862. Description at enlistment 5'10" tall; dark hair; blue eyes; born A s h l a n d County, Ohio. Died 12 November 1864 at Vicksburg, Mississippi, of disease.

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Porter Freebom, photograph courtesy Janine Crandell www.illinoisancestors. org/fulton

Giles, D. E.—Enlisted 25 May 1861, 22 years old, as a private in Co. C, 17 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10 ½” tall; blonde hair; blue eyes; born Bethany (Genesco?) New York.

Glass, Uriah J.—Enlisted 20 August 1862, 25 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6 ½” tall; dark hair; gray eyes; born in Licking County, Ohio. Wounded 27 May 1864 and absent at muster out as a corporal. Died 25 February 1917 near Fredonia, Kansas.

Glass, Uriah J.—1860 Federal Census, Deerfield Township (Fulton) Illinois: Son of Samuel and Margaret Glass. Samuel is 54 years old, born in Maryland. Margaret is 31. Uriah is 24 years old and born in Maryland. His siblings are Deborah (16); John (13) and Susan (6), all born in Illinois.

Glass, Uriah J.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 14 October 1836 in Carroll County, Maryland. Married Eliza Jane Henderson in 1868 and were divorced 25 February 1891 in Fulton County, Illinois. Married Mrs. Adaline (Addie) Shrader Wiley in Fredonia (Wilson) Kansas on 12 June 1892. Her first husband was Jones R. Wiley, who died in Fredonia, Kansas in 1889. Uriah’s children: Emma D. born 4 January 1870 in Cuba (Fulton) Illinois; William H. born in Cuba (Fulton) Illinois on 30 October 1873; and Elbia Randolph born 4 April 1884.

Wounded near New Hope Church, Dallas, Georgia on 27 May 1864 by a shot to the right leg, about 2 ½ inches above the patella.

In 1885 he lived in Winfield (Cowley) Kansas; 1887 in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois; and 1907 in Fredonia (Wilson) Kansas, where he died on 25 February 1917.

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Goodspeed, Henry Stephen—Enlisted as a 2 Lt. in Co. I, 61 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; attorney at law; born 30 April 1838 in New York. Promoted to Captain, 25 years old, at Devalls Bluff, Arkansas. Term expired 24 March 1865. Died 30 December 1915 in Danville, Illinois. Burial Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago,Illinois.

Goodspeed, Henry S.—1860 Federal Census, Avon, Fulton County, Illinois: Henry is the son of Stephen Goodspeed (51) born in New York with an occupation of dry good merchant. His mother is Jane (46) also of New York. His siblings: George (20) a clerk and Thomas (17). Two women work as domestics for the family. Henry is 22 years old and a lawyer.

Goodspeed, Henry Stephen—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 20 April 1838 in Glen’s Falls, New York to Stephen and Jane Goodspeed. Thomas W. Goodspeed, a Chicago clergyman and registrar of the University of Chicago in 1912, was his brother.

Married Indamora Warring in the 1860s and were divorced. Their daughter, Mary, died when she was two years old. Married Albina E. Stark in 1879 in New York City. Albina died August 1898. Their children: Henry Stark born 1880; Gertrude Cliff born 1881; and Jessie L. (a child by Albina’s first marriage to unnamed).

Henry got malarial fever at Snyder’s Bluff, Mississippi in July 1863, and suffered from yearly attacks which confined him to his bed from 1880. He stated that he had brain trouble from the malaria and excessive doses of quinine.

In 1865 his occupation was a New York City book publisher. In 1913 he resided at the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Danville, Illinois.

Gorham, Eli S.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 24 years old, as a private in Co. I, 72 Infantry. Promoted to sergeant 27 September 1862 and 1 sergeant 5 March 1864. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; born in Illinois.

Grow, Asa Kinne—Enlisted 4 August 1861 as 2 Lt. Co. C, Engineer Regiment of West Missouri Vols. Discharged 19 August 1861 at St. Louis, Missouri. Enlisted 1March 1862 as a Sergeant in Co. B, 1 Reg’t Missouri Engineers. Discharged 1 November 1864. Enlisted 8 March 1865, 30 years old, as private in Co. 5, 1 US Army Corps. Discharged 8 March 1866. Description at enlistment: 5’7 ¾” tall; light hair; blue eyes; soldier; born in New York. Died 6 January 1918 at National Home, Danville (Vermillion) Illinois. Burial at Danville National Cemetery, Danville, Illinois.

Grow, Asa Kinne—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 7 December 1834 in Richford (Tioga) New York. Married Martha Malvina Mings in Monmouth (Warren) Illinois on 13 January 1859, who was born in St. Augustine (Fulton) Illinois on 1 August 1839.

Their children: Inez Ardell born 8 November 1859 (wife of C. W. Dunn of Quincy, Illinois); Earl Wilson born 15 February 1868; Harriett Edna born 4 August 1872; and Platt Farrington born January 1861 and died 1862. Martha and Asa Grow separated in February 1887 but were not divorced.

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“. . . did not support his wife and for that reason she was obliged to become separated from him. Their last home was in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but they were both later in Alton, Illinois for a short time. He visited her last in Avon, Illinois about the year 1890. The cause of the final separation was due to the fact that he failed to support his family and she was obliged when able to support herself and one child.”—Mary Head, 1918 In 1881the middle finger of the right hand was disabled by a dog bite in Denver, Colorado. It happened “on the premises of Patrick Rowe in Denver, Colorado. I was passing to the rear of the house on the said premises when I was seized and bitten by the watch dog.” He lost the use of his hand. In 1889 the thumb on the right hand was “disabled by a felon.” He was also deaf in one ear since 1868. He broke his right arm in 1899. In 1902 he went to live at the Soldiers Home in Quincy, Illinois.

Asa K. Grow died 16 January 1918 in the Soldiers Home at Quincy, Illinois. Martha died 9 August 1927.

Asa Kinne Grow, Photograph courtesy of S. Dunn

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Asa Kinne Grow,photograph courtesy of Coan.net

Hartson, James—Enlisted 18 October 1861 in Co. D, 55 Infantry at Liverpool as a private. Discharged at Pittsburg Landing (also known as Shiloh) for disability on 31 March 1862. Enlisted at Avon 5 May 1864, 34 years old, as a private in Co. E, 138 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; light hair; light eyes; married; born in Oxford, Canada. Mustered out 14 October 1864 for rheumatism.

Hartson, James—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 5 May 1830. His first wife, Susan, died. He then married Sarah E. Mace on 29 September 1909 in Fulton County, Illinois. Sarah was the widow of John Mace, who died 16 December 1902.

James suffered from rheumatism caused from exposure while on a steamboat going from St. Louis to Paducah, Kentucky in February 1862. He also suffered from heart disease and Bright’s disease.

In 1890 the family lived in Cuba (Fulton) Illinois; 1891 in Fiatt, Illinois; and in 1892 in Fairview, Illinois. James died 22 October 1911 in Canton, Illinois. He is buried at Fiatt Cemetery.

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James Hartson, Fiatt Cemetery

Photograph courtesy Janine Crandell www.illinoisancestors.org Head, William—Enlisted 25 May 1861, 25 years old, as a private in Co. C, 17 Infantry. Discharged 10 November 1862 at Bolivar, Tennessee, for typhoid dysentery. Description at enlistment: 5’ 8 ¾” tall; brown hair; black eyes; born Hector (Tompkins) New York.

Head, William—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Died in Boliver, Tennessee of typhoid on 14 November 1862, while he was out of the service. He was the son of John J. Head and Rhoda Barker Head, who were married 25 March 1824 at McIntyre Settlement, Tompkins County, New York. Rhoda died in Avon (Fulton) Illinois on 5 March 1884. John died in 1892. Bettriah Sanford of McDonough County, Illinois, was Rhoda’s sister in 1885.

William’s father was awarded the pension after Rhoda died, as he was very old, had a hernia which made him unfit for farm labor, and had two daughters with epilepsy. Their “quite frequent fits require attention of the father a great amount of the time. His wife was an invalid.”

William helped support the family, even though there was another son with a family of his own. The sisters were Mary W. born 8 June 1844 and Hattie H. born 15 June 1846. William “worked out by day work and by the month and worked land on shares, living at home with the family . . . and would in my judgment amount to more than $12.00 per month.”—Clark Lindsey, 1876.

He “worked for me in the employ of the coal company at stone cutting in 1859 and 1860 thereby earning $1.10 per day, which earnings were taken home to support his mother . . . his earnings were worth as much as $15 per month . . . Head continued to work by the day and month and worked land on shares until enlistment . . . wages were worth $12.00 per month.”—John W.

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Tharpe, 1876 He gave his mother $50 when home on his first furlough. He worked land for Ira Woods prior to enlistment. In 1858 William worked in the oil works near Avon, Illinois. James D. Mantania said that William purchased shoes and boots for his family.

Hendricks, James Monroe—Enlisted 1 November 1861, 18 years old, as a musician in Co. D, 64 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born Hendricks County, Indiana. Reenlisted 31 December 1863, 20 years old, as a private in Co. D, 64 Infantry. Veteran appointed principal musician 1 March 1865. Mustered out 11 July 1865. Died 10 July 1928 in Galesburg, Illinois.

Hendricks, James Monroe—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 4 February 1844 in Hendricks County, Indiana, the son of Thomas A. Hendricks and Mary Burke, both of Kentucky. Brother to John T. Hendricks, below. Married Barbara A. Beam in Warren County, Illinois on 29 August 1865. Their children: Alice L. born 22 September 1866; Mary J. born 17 October 1869; Fannie E. born 9 January 1873; and Lelia L. born 17 November 1880. All were married by 1899.

While on fatigue duty and assisting in unloading heavy timber from a large wagon at Glendale, Mississippi about 10 May 1863 to build a stockade, he was knocked off the wagon, fell 8 to 9 feet, breaking his left arm through the elbow when he struck the ground. By 1865 there were running sores from the instep of his foot up the inside of his leg to the hip. In 1924 he suffered a stroke, which left him partially blind.

He was a justice of the peace for 40 years. He died of hemorrhage of the brain on 10 July 1928,

with burial at Avon Cemetery (Knox) Illinois. His death certificate lists him as Major J. M. Hendricks. Barbara Hendricks died 4 April 1929.

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James Monroe Hendricks, Photograph Courtesy of Bill Mast

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James M. Hendricks, photograph courtesy Bill Mast

Hendricks, John T.—Enlisted 21 February 1864 as a private, 18 years old, in Co. D, 64th Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born in Hendricks Co., Indiana. Mustered out 11 July 1865 as a musician. Died 10 May 1915 in Pe Ell, Washington.

Hendricks, John T.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 2 August 1846 in Hendricks County, Indiana. Married Austa Anna wheeler in Crawford County, Kansas on 22 December 1868. Austa was born 8 October 1840 in La Porte County, Michigan. Their children: Hattie A. born 30 March 1876 (married name Craton in 1916 from Pe Ell, Washington); William born 2 April 1870; Anna M. born 3 September 1871; Mary A. born 4 November 1873; and Daisy L. born 27 April 1879.

At the battle of Dallas, Georgia in June 1864, he suffered a hernia while he and his brother James carried a heavy man, who was wounded, from the field.

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In 1887, James Hendricks stated: “near Peach Tree Creek, Georgia, brother John had sunstroke. Was marching at his side when seeing him about to fall—myself and one other comrade took hold of him and led or partly carried him to a spring of water where we bathed his head and worked with him for several hours . . . . Occurred while a portion of the force was marching from right to left wing of the army. The roads … were very dusty and weather exceedingly warm—had to place him in ambulance. He was sent to hospital, but never able to return to the company.”

In addition to sunstroke and resulting lifelong vertigo and head pains, John suffered from rheumatism of his right arm and “could not chop good with an axe.”

From July 1865 to fall of 1866 they lived in Warren County, Illinois; then Kansas for 10 years, in 1876 they moved back to Illinois; 1879 moved to Lewis County, Washington.

In 1880 he worked for Omer Manermann in the hayfield and had to quit work because of the heat and dizziness. John rented land from Omer, and Omer would help John on his claim.

John T. Hendricks died 10 May 1915 in Pe Ell, Washington. Austa died 1 May 1931. They are buried in the St. Joseph Cemetery (Lewis) Washington.

Austa Hendricks, wife of John T. Hendricks Photograph courtesy of Helen at findagrave.com

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John T. Hendricks Hobbs, Lyman Scott—Enlisted 7 May 1864, 45 years old, as a private in Co. C, 138 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; black hair; black eyes; married; laborer; born Vergennes, Vermont. Mustered out 14 October 1864.

Hobbs, Lyman Scott—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in “American Vermont.” Married Mrs. Harriet M. Holton in Berwick, Illinois on 27 October 1855. Her first husband, Chauncey Holton, died in March 1853. Lyman Scott Hobbs died 26 September 1891 in Warren County, Illinois with burial at Monmouth Cemetery.

Hollister, Hiram F.—Enlisted 2 August 1864 as a private, 18 years old, in the 47 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6’ tall; brown hair; dark eyes; born in Fulton Co., Illinois. Transferred to Co. C as consolidated. Died 26 April 1917 at the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Quincy, Illinois.

Hollister, Hiram F.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 13 January 1845 in Avon (Fulton) Illinois. Hiram’s brother was Perez G. Hollister.

Married Helen Roy McLaren on 29 January 1867 in Prairie City (McDonough) Illinois. Helen was born in Washington (Guernsey) Ohio on 15 September 1846, the daughter of George and Mary McLaren. Helen was one of a large family— her siblings: Annie Cordelia, Mary, Crawford Gilbert, Sarah Esher, George Beaumont, Samuel Wright, Elizabeth, Birch, Emily Blesset, and William Birch. In 1860 they were living in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois.

Hiram and Helen’s children: Clarence Ward born 11 March 1868; Fred Bone born 12 January 1874; Della V. born 6 May 1876; Mary Zenaide born 6 August 1879; Warren Scott born 10 November 1881 and living in Kankakee, Illinois in 1918; Blanch Louise born 25 April 1883 and died by 1915; and Mabel Francis born 30 September 1886 and died by 1915.

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His invalid pension was based on chronic diarrhea, indigestion, nervous prostration, spinal congestion from the “enforced use of unwholesome food (musty sow belly) [leading to] diarrhea [which] became chronic September 1864 at Memphis.”

In 1897 his family lived in Iroquois County, Illinois. In 1909 they were in Fruita (Mesa) Colorado. Hiram died 28 April 1917 in Quincy, Illinois, at the Soldiers Home. Helen died 12 October 1925.

Hoyt, Abraham—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 25 years old, as a private in Co. I, 72 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; black hair; blue eyes; married; born in Fulton County, Illinois. Killed in a charge made by regiment on rebel rifle pits at Vicksburg, Mississippi, 22 May 1863.

Hoyt, Abraham—Civil War Widow’s Pension File, National Archives Washington, DC: Married Sophia Hall 3 December 1857 in Fairview (Fulton) Illinois. She was born 15 May 1840 or 1847 in Somerset Co., New Jersey. Their children: John Marian born 11 November 1858 and Mary Elizabeth born 28 August 1861.

Sophia’s second husband was Josiah M. Wiard, married in Avon (Fulton) Illinois on 6 January 1869. He died 7 January 1890 in Kenoma, Missouri. They had at least one child, Fred.

Her third husband was Nicholas K. Snyder of Teagues (Webster) Missouri. She was living in Barton Co., Missouri when they were married 2 May 1900. He died 9 April 1902 in Kenoma, Missouri. In 1912 Sophia was living at 1311 East 9

th St., Kansas City, Missouri. She stated that she “possessed no property personal or real and that I am a cripple and unable to perform any daily labor, and that I am dependent on my children.” She died 7 December 1922.

Jennings, George W.—Enlisted 24 September 1861, 28 years old, in Co. G, 50 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 6’1” tall; brown hair; gray eyes; liveryman. Discharged 17 June 1862.

Jennings, George W.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in Pennsylvania. Married Mary Ann Parker in Avon (Fulton) Illinois on 5 February 1860. She was born 30 December 1840 in Indiana. At the battle of Ft. Donelson, Tennessee on 4 February 1862, he contracted “erephritis and spinal irritation” which eventually led to heart, lung, and liver disease and rheumatism. George W. Jennings died 8 May 1902 of paralysis in East St. Louis, Illinois.

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George W. Jennings, Avon Cemetery Photograph courtesy Janine Crandell www.illinoisancestors.org/fulton

Johnston, Robert F.—Enlisted 7 March 1865, 21 years old, as a private in Co. A, 7 Cavalry. Description at enlistment: 5’ 9 ½” tall; brown hair; grey eyes; born in New Jersey. Mustered out 4 November 1865 as a corporal at Nashville, Tennessee.

Johnston, Robert F.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: A typed transcription of the family births from an American Bible Society Bible from 1856 was in the file:

Sarah Jane McCormick born August 10, 1842 Hannah McCormick born February 29, 1844 Mary Matilda Elizabeth McCormick, born January 25, 1846 James McCormick, born February 13, 1848 Margaret Ann McCormick, born March 6, 1850 John McCormick born March 14, 1852 Martha Susanna McCormick born June 11, 1854 Ellen McCormick born October 12, 1856 Eliza Frances McCormick born September 25, 1858 George McCormick born October 3, 1860 William Alexander McCormick born November 26, 1862 Isabella Bell McCormick born February 21, 186__

Marriage record shows that Sarah J. McCormick married Robert F. Johnston on November 23, 1865

Jones, Isaac Newton—Enlisted 1 November 1861, 18 years old, as a corporal in Co. D, 64 Infantry, also known as the Yates Sharpshooters. Description at enlistment: 6’ tall; brown

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hair; hazel eyes; born in Fulton Co., Illinois. Died 20 February 1922 in Hollywood, California. Jones, Isaac Newton—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 9 June 1843 in Avon (Fulton) Illinois. Married Delcenia Desdemona Stoakes in 1867. She died in Aurora, Nebraska in 1907.

He then married Dr. Cora Carpenter White in 1911 in Los Angeles, California. She was a medical doctor. His residences since 1865 were Roseville, Illinois; Des Moines, Iowa; Aurora, Nebraska. In 1922 his address was 1441 Fairview Ave., Hollywood, California. Isaac Newton Jones died 20 February 1922.

Kent, James—Enlisted 6 August 1861, 36 years old, as a private in Co. H, 2 Cavalry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; auburn hair; blue eyes; married, born in Marion Co., Ohio. Died of disease 18 November 1861 at Paducah, Kentucky.

Kent, James—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Jane Luckenbill on 16 March 1853 in Marysville (Union) Ohio. Her brother is Matthew Luckenbill of Liberty County, Nebraska in 1895. She and James had no children.

After his death on 11 November 1861 from typhoid fever, she married A. D. Safford in DeWitt County, Illinois on 11 February 1863.

Lake, William B.—Enlisted 25 May 1861, 42 years old, as a private in Co. C, 17 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’ 10 ½” tall; light hair; blue eyes; married; born Sergeantsville (Hunterdon) New Jersey. Died at Cape Girardeau, Missouri 7 October 1862 of chronic diarrhea.

Lake, William B.—Civil War Widow’s Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Died of either “chronic diarrhea” or “epleptis fit” at Cape Girardeau. He was born 13 November 1820, son of Arthur Lake. Married Sarah Jones, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Jones, in Baptist Town (Hunterdon) New Jersey on 5 March 1842. Their children: Seneca S. [son] born 8 July 1843; Mary E. Hall born 15 July 1846; (in 1887 living in Lebanon (Smith) Kansas); George J. born 26 July 1849 in Huntingdon, New Jersey; William Wilbert born 16 January 1859 and died 20 March 1863.

Sarah next married Jacob Lahman 10 September 1865 in Green Bush (Warren) Illinois. He died 17 October 1901. He is buried in Greenleaf Cemetery (Warren) Illinois.

Mantania, James D.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 35 years old, as a 1 Sergeant in Co. I, 72 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; light hair; blue eyes; shoe maker; born in New York. Reduced to sergeant 19 September 1862, and to private 1 December 1862. Promoted to corporal 20 April 1863. Mustered out 31 May 1865.

Mantania, James D.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Olive B. Head in Mecklenburg, New York, on 15 January 1850. He was wounded in the right foot, lost his big toe, which disabled him for walking to a great extent, in Vicksburg in May 1863. “I worked for James S. Mantania at the boot and shoe business from the time he returned home from the army.”—W. J. Mantania, 1886.

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James D. Mantania died in San Diego, California, on 23 August 1880, caused by “gastralgia and liver disease in the army from malaria and eating impure food, which led to obstruction of gall ducts and caused his death.”—Olive Mantania, 1885. Olive died in San Diego, California, in December of 1909.

McBride, Andrew J.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 19 years old, as a private in Co. I, 72 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; black hair; black eyes; born in Tippecanoe Co., Indiana. Promoted to corporal 27 October 1863. Slightly wounded at Spanish Fort, Alabama, on 29 March 1865. Mustered out 7 August 1865.

McBride, Andrew J.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Married Sarah, who died 18 September 1895. Married Catharine A. Garver on 10 June 1897 in Champaign County, Illinois. His children: Elise F. born 19 October 1871 and Walter R. born 6 December 1883.

Lived at Farmer’s City (DeWitt) Illinois in 1883. Andrew died 11 April 1905.

Andrew McBride, photograph by Cheryl Behrend Mings, Joseph Wesley—Enlisted 1 November 1861, 18 years old, as a private in Co. D, 64 Infantry. Born1843. Description at enlistment: 6’ tall; black hair; black eyes; born in Fulton County, Illinois. Mustered out 24 December 1864 as a corporal. Son of Joseph Mings and Harriet Davis. Died 17 April 1916. Burial Prairie City Cemetery, Prairie City (McDonough) Illinois.

Mings, Joseph Wesley—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 1 September 1843 in Avon (Fulton) Illinois. Enlisted as Wesley Mings because as a boy he liked the name Wesley better than Joseph and after discharge wrote his name as J. W. Mings. Married Mary Elizabeth Carr in McDonough County, Illinois, on 6 August 1872. Their children: Judd C. born 7 November 1873 and living in Prairie City, Illinois in 1916; Mable E. born 24 December 1874; Rollin D. born 7 May 1878; Leona born 24 November 1882; and Maude Muller born 17 March 1884 and went by M. Maud Stewart in Galesburg, Illinois in 1916.

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Joseph Wesley Mings lived in Warren, McDonough, Fulton, and Knox counties in Illinois. Died 14 April 1916 of cancer of the liver. Mary died 17 February 1926.

Moore, David—Enlisted 23 August 1861, 18 years old, as a private in Co. E, 33 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 6’ tall; auburn hair; blue eyes; born in Carroll Co., Ohio.

Morris, Edward—Enlisted 25 May 1861, 24 years old, as a private in Co. C, 17 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; auburn hair; blue eyes; born Albany, New York. Discharged 3 May 1862 in Pittsburg, Tennessee by order.

Morris, Edward—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in Albany, New York. He was unmarried and had no children when he died on 18 July 1906 at the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Quincy, Illinois.

His application for a disability pension was for an accidental gunshot wound of the left wrist. He stated he was inside his regimental camp lines near Cape Girardeau, Missouri, sitting on a pile of rails when a bullet came from some other camp, probably the 11 Missouri Infantry, but not sure of the source. The 11th had just returned from battle and were discharging their guns. However, his pension was rejected as one affiant wrote the injury was actually received in a drunken brawl in town and not in camp. In addition, Edward Morris claimed two or three different versions of the story.

Morris, Michael—Enlisted 7 May 1864, 18 years old, as a private in Co. C, 138 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’3” tall; brown hair; gray eyes; born Canton (Fulton) Illinois. Mustered out 14 October 1864. Enlisted in the 83 Infantry on 1March 1865 and transferred to 61 Infantry on 26 June 1865. Discharged 8 September 1865.

Morris, Michael—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 16 July 1844. In 1885 Michael moved to Lincoln County, Kansas where he met his future wife, who arrived from Sweden that year. Married Clara Matilda Peterson in Lincoln County, Kansas, on 22 March 1886. Michael and Clara were married at the same time and place as her sister Louisa and her husband, August Lundstrum. Mary Bernhardt-Links is another sister.

Their children: John born 8 February 1887; Golden born 6 March 1888; Joseph born 21 June 1891; and Rosey (Rosa) born 11 May 1893.

Michael Morris claimed eye disease, rheumatism, and chronic diarrhea from his experience in the War. By 1880, “he was nearly blind in one eye. It was difficult for him to see at all, both eyes were running. I asked him what causes his sore eyes and he told me that it was caused in the army by being overheated and catching cold, and neuralgia.”—C.C. Lyons, 1880. A doctor wrote that he actually had granulated eyelids.

The Pension Bureau often required applicants to travel to a doctor for a medical examination. Here is a letter written by Michael Morris on February 26, 1902:

Dear Sir. I thought I would write you a few lines to let you know that I did not go to Woodward. It is about a hundred miles from here and the railroad is 45 miles from here, and the

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roads are very rough and bad and there hant no section lines laid out so I could not get there to be examined, and there hant a bridge in the county and the Canadian river is to cross and it is dangerous to cross in the winter and there is no place along the road to stop at night and I am not able to sleep in a wagon. So I will just return the papers and if you can continue them on until August I will try to get up there if I can.

Yours Truly, Michael Morris, Hamburg, Okla. Michael Morris died 24 August 1902 of appendicitis at home in Day County, Oklahoma. The family arrived in Oklahoma Territory in 1901. At his death, Mary’s assets amounted to 3 horses, valued at $75; 1 wagon valued at $10; furniture valued at $5; and land valued at $10. They had a claim of 160 acres with 30 acres barbed wire fenced and cultivated. Clara married Charles A. Nelson in Lincoln County, Kansas on 16 December 1903.

O’Connell, Richard—Enlisted 1 February 1862, 40 years old, as a blacksmith in Co. G, 12 Cavalry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; dark hair; gray eyes; married, blacksmith, born in Ireland. Discharged for disability 18 March 1864.

Olson, Peter—Enlisted 15 December 1863, 33 years old, as a private in Co. I, 102 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’ 7 ¼” tall; sandy hair; blue eyes; born Sweden. Transferred to Co. B, 16 Infantry.

Olson, Peter—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in Sweden, married Anna Anders in Wataga (Knox) Illinois on 9 March 1858. Their daughter, also named Anna, was born 13 October 1869. He died at Rock Island County Poor Farm on 21 May 1882 of “apoplexy (suddenly).” His wife predeceased him on 7 March 1875.

Palmer, Frederick R.—Enlisted 12 August 1862, 29 years old, as a private in Co. H, 83 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; born in Broome County, New York. Died 25 November 1862 at Ft. Donelson, Tennessee.

Palmer, Frederick R.—1860 Federal Census, Fulton County, Illinois: Frederick is 27 years old, born in New York. His wife is Rebecca, 24, born in Ohio. They have a four month old son, William. Lewis and Martha A. Palmer were present at his birth.

Palmer, Frederick R.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Rebecca Ann Spencer in Fulton County, Illinois on 1 July 1855. Their child: William M. born 13 August 1860. Frederick Palmer died at Ft. Donelson hospital on 25 November 1862 after 2 months of chronic diarrhea.

Rebecca married Henry Garrard on 2 September 1865. Henry’s first wife, Alcinda, died in Hermon (Knox) Illinois 11 November 1862. In 1876 Rebecca and Henry Garrard lived in Bower’s Mills (Lawrence) Missouri. Their children: Joseph M. born 21 July 1866; Thomas C. born 1 October 1868; Levi C. born 25 October 1870; Eunice M. born 28 October 1872; and Lena May born 1 February 1875. Henry Garrard died 1 September 1877 in Bower’s Mills.

“[Rebecca] has a small dwelling in Bowers Mills, Missouri which was recently purchased for her by her sons. She has no visible means of support but is kept by her sons aiding her and she has no

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income from any source.”—Thomas J. Holland, 1897. Porter, George W.—Enlisted 8 March 1865, 16 years old, as a private in Co. F, 83 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’5 ¾” tall; brown hair; gray eyes; cooper; born in Illinois. Transferred to Co. G, 61 Infantry.

Porter, George—1860 Federal Census, Fulton County, Illinois: George is the 11 year old son of David Porter (48) born in Maryland, and Lydia (46) and born in Ohio. George’s siblings: Sarah (18); Thomas (15); John (8); (all born in Ohio); and Cathrine (5) and Charley (2), both born in Illinois.

Porter, Julius P.—Enlisted 8 March 1865, 44 years old, as a private in Co. F, 83 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; brown hair; gray eyes; cooper; born in Ohio or Henderson County, Illinois. Transferred to Co. G, 61 Infantry. Mustered out 8 September 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.

Porter, Julius P.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, D.C.: Married Henrietta Mark in Huntington Township (Ross) Ohio on 4 January 1844.

“[We were]. . . detailed as guards on a forage train going out from Clarksville, Tennessee about 15 miles—filled wagon beds with barrels. We rode on them best way possible—road very rough and was hard to stay on the wagon.”— George W. Porter, 1887

“In getting out of a government wagon the team started suddenly and threw me astride of the end board crushing my left testicle and injury to my back and hip.”—Julius Porter, 1887. This accident left him with a hydrocele of 4 ½” diameter.

Julius Porter moved from Fulton County, Illinois in 1865 to Carlisle (Warren) Iowa, and then to Republic County, Kansas in 1878. In 1887 he lived in Concordia (Cloud) Kansas. He died 26 April 1890 of heart disease.

Parkin, William H.—Enlisted 5 May 1864, 21 years old, as a private in Co. C, 138 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; light hair; light eyes; born Macedonia, Illinois. Mustered out 14 October 1864.

Parkin, William H.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 16 October 1843 in Macedonia (Hancock) Illinois (now called Webster). Married Minerva Jane Hollister in Avon (Fulton) Illinois on25 January 1872. No children. In 1891 they lived in Good Hope (McDonough) Illinois, and in 1915 were in Galesburg, Illinois, where he died 27 December 1915.

Pincott, Daniel W.—Enlisted 1 December 1863, 18 years old, as a private in Co. B, 33 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’3” tall; dark hair; hazel eyes; born in New York. Transferred from 72 Infantry 17 July 1865. Mustered out 24 November 1865 at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Pool, Thomas—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 29 years old, in Co. I, 72 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 6’4” tall; brown hair; grey eyes; married; born in Indiana. Promoted to corporal 19

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April 1863; promoted to sergeant 29 October 1863. Mustered out 7 August 1865 at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Died 29 March 1927 in Avon (Fulton) Illinois.

Pool, Thomas—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 31 March 1823 in La Porte County, Indiana to John and Elizabeth Pool. Married Charlotte Leeper in Fairview (Fulton) Illinois on 15 January 1857. Their children: Cary S. born 14 October 1859; Lawrence J. born 4 January 1862; Effie born 28 April 1866; Janette (Nettie) born 22 September 1868; Alma born 5 August 1871; and John H. born 15 October 1875.

His pension was for chronic diarrhea, rheumatism, and gallstones. At the age of 90 he was 6’ 4 ¼” tall and weighed 206 pounds. Thomas Pool died in Avon (Fulton) Illinois in 1927. Charlotte predeceased him on 6 April 1912.

Obituary for Thomas’ father, John Pool: (From the Avon Sentinel) courtesy of Janine Crandell at www.illinoisancestors.org/fulton: John Pool was born March 9th, 1806, in Cable Co., West Virginia, and died May 7th, 1895, near Avon, Fulton Co., Ill., aged 79 years, 1 month and 28 days. When a young man he emigrated to Richmond, Indiana. At this place he was married to Miss Elizabeth Fulton, January 28th, 1830; removed from there to Michigan in the same year. He joined the Christian Church in 1831, then came to Illinois and settled in Fulton Co., in 1843; joined the Dunkard or German Baptist Church in May, 1848. (Fulton County Ledger, May 21, 1885, submitted by Judy Churchill)

Porter, George W.—Enlisted 8 March 1865, 16 years old, as a private in Co. F, 83 Infantry. Transferred to Co. G, 61 Infantry on 30 June 1865. Description at enlistment: 5’ 5 ¾” tall; brown hair, grey eyes; cooper; born in Illinois.

Porter, George W.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 19 September 1849 in Olena (Henderson) Illinois. Mrs. Ellen Branen was one of his sisters. Married Lizzie C. Clarke in Des Moines (Polk) Iowa on 1 July 1885. They had two children: George C. and then Jessie E., who was adopted. In 1910 they lived in Indianola (Warren) Iowa. George Porter died 4 November 1910. His invalid pension was based on heart disease and numbness of his ankles and feet.

Ransom, Andrew Jackson—Enlisted 10 September 1861, 36 years old, as a private in Co. F, 50 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; auburn hair; blue eyes; married; merchant; born 6 August 1835 in New York. Appointed quartermaster sergeant and transferred to non-commissioned staff 1861. Discharged for disability 15 July 1862.

Died 8 July 1890. Burial Brooken Cemetery, Brooken (Haskell) Oklahoma.

Ransom, Andrew Jackson—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in Courtland County, New York. Married Martha A. Barnes in Fairview (Fulton) Illinois on 30 August 1857. Their children: Noah Almerin born 20 December 1859 and Minnie M., born 24 April 1862, both in Avon (Fulton) Illinois.

He was discharged for chronic bronchitis and hemorrhage of the lungs, which rendered him unable to work until he died. He believed this was caused by extraordinary exposure in the

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line of duty at Hannibal, Missouri, in October of 1861. Andrew Ranson died in Avon on 19 February 1867 from tuberculosis. In 1886 Martha lived at Yates Center (Woodson) Kansas.

Andrew Jackson Ransom, Photograph courtesy of MilleBelle of findagrave.com

Riucott, Daniel W.—Enlisted 1 December 1863, 18 years old, in Co. B, 72 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’3” tall; dark hair; hazel eyes; born in New York. Transferred to 33 Infantry SO 113 HQ 16 AC July 24, 1865.

Rose, Birney—Enlisted 2 May 1864, 20 years old, in Co. C, 138 Infantry as a private. Also served in Co. D, 70 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; black hair; black eyes; collier, born Halfboy, Illinois. Mustered out 14 October 1864. Born 2 December 1845 and died 2 February 1877 in Memphis, Missouri. His twin brother, Cyrus, died in Lake County, Illinois, at the age of 8.

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Birney Rose, Avon Cemetery

Photograph courtesy Janine Crandell www.illinoisancestors.org Rose, Felix W.—

Rose, Felix W.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 10 August 1840 in Morgantown, Indiana. Married Elizabeth Teatsworth on 11 December 1866 in Peoria County, Illinois. Their children: George Clide born 13 November 1867 and Mabel R. born 6 November 1869.

Felix’ pension was based on a lame back and kidney trouble. The family lived in Fulton County, Illinois, until 1867 when they moved to Peoria County, Illinois for 15 years. They then went to Fremont County, Iowa. In 1926 the address was 109 W. Thomas Avenue, Shenandoah (Page) Iowa. Felix died on interstitial nephritis on 20 November 1923.

Rose, Silas Nathan—Enlisted 2 May 1864, 32 years old, in Co. C, 138 Infantry as a sergeant. Also served Co. D, 70 Infantry and Co. D, 7 Cavalry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; black hair; black eyes; married; mason; born Florence (Oneida) New York on 25 March 1832. Mustered out 14 October 1864. Died Memphis (Scotland) Missouri 22 September 1898.

Rose, Silas Nathan—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Sarah J. Moore, who died 27 May 1857 in Iowa. Married Elizabeth Hubbard 13 April 1859 in Kirksville (Adair) Missouri. Elizabeth was born in Memphis Missouri, on16 February 1841. Their children: James H. Rose born 31 August 1884 in Eldersburg (Scotland) Missouri; Hattie L. Bowman who lived at 707 S. Cicero Avenue, Chicago, Illinois in 1921. In 1861 Silas was a plasterer and a bricklayer; and later became a mason.

At Avon, Illinois he enlisted in the 70 Illinois Infantry in May 1862 and mustered out 22 October 1862. Reenlisted 2 May 1864 in the 138 Illinois Infantry and discharged 14 October 1864. Reenlisted as a private in Co. D, 7 Cavalry on 24 March 1865, and was discharged 4 November 1865. He stated that he enlisted in the 7 Cavalry because he was about to be drafted “and I was determined not to be in the service as a drafted man.”

Silas N. Rose died 22 September 1898 at Memphis (Scotland) Missouri. Elizabeth Rose died 25 April 1921 of heart trouble.

Suffered from liver complaints stemming from chronic diarrhea at Camp Butler in 1862. He died

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of chronic hepatitis, which was misdiagnosed during his lifetime. In 1880 the family moved from Avon (Fulton) Illinois to Missouri. In 1898 they resided at Sand Hill (Scotland) Missouri. In 1911 their address was Keokuk, Iowa.

Silas N. Rose, Photographs courtesy of Jenepher Homer Rose, William Hamilton—Enlisted 2 May 1864, 25 years old, as 2 Lt. in Co C., 138 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; brown hair; black eyes; married; miller, born in Vernon, Illinois. Mustered out 14 October 1864. Died 4 May1916 in Avon (Fulton) Illinois.

Rose, William Hamilton—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 25 September 1838 in Vernon (Lake) Illinois, the son of Roswell Rose and Elizabeth Ingraham of New York. Married Harriet A. Stevens in Waukegan (Lake) Illinois on 31 December 1859. Harriet was born 3 March 1842 in Annville (Oneida) New York. Their children: Frankie (female) born Lake County, Illinois on 28 November 1861 with married name of Lee in 1915; Florence born in Avon (Fulton) Illinois 7 July 1867 with married name of Mings in 1915; and Nellie M. born in Avon (Fulton) Illinois on 24 April 1872, with married name of Cline in 1915.

He suffered from chronic rheumatism of his back and left shoulder and heart disease. William Rose died 4 May 1916 of arterio sclerosis and nephritis hypertrophy of the heart.

Rose, William Hamilton-- Illustrated History of Illinois, History of Fulton County, Pages 1075-1076 (Courtesy of Jenepher Homer): Son of Roswell and Elizabeth (Ingraham) Rose. Brother of Harriet Geraldine, Havilah R., Cyrus, Silas, Nathan and Birney. Husband of Harriet Ann Stevens. Father of Frankie A., Florence Minnie and Nellie V. Rose.

The family of which W. H. Rose is the sole survivor has been substantially identified with the

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State of Illinois ever since its establishment this side of Lake Michigan in 1836. That year witnessed the arrival, in the then small and muddy hamlet of Chicago, of Roswell Rose, who was born in Oneida County, N.Y., February 2, 1801, a son of Phineas Rose, who carried a musket in the Revolutionary War. Roswell Rose came to Chicago well prepared to share the uncertain fortunes of the infant community basking under the frowning walls of Fort Dearborn. He had been educated by his mother, a woman of strong character and scholarly attainments, and he had learned to know men through his work as an educator for a number of years. As an aid to self-support he had learned the carpenter's trade, and, before coming west, had risen to considerable prominence as a builder and contractor in Buffalo, N.Y. He remained but a year in Chicago, being tempted by the inducements offered in the country to land purchasers, more especially in a section twenty miles northwest of Chicago. For six years he lived on and improved his farm, and then moved to Waukegan, which was then donning a spirit of municipal importance, and offering a prolific field to men apt with the use of tools. He erected the first mill in Waukegan, as well as private and public structures, and in 1850 came to Fulton and Warren Counties, and purchased a half-interest in a mill on Swan Creek, formerly owned and improved by John and Riverus Woods. In the fall of the same year he brought his family from Waukegan and located on what is known as the Saunders farm, on the northeast quarter of Section 13, Greenbush Township, which had a log house and a few minor improvements, the house having been built in 1838 by Loren Woods. Three years after his arrival the house was replaced by a somewhat pretentious frame building, on the south side of the creek and near the mill, which continued to be his home for the remainder of his life. His mill became one of the interesting enterprises in the community, and, operated for the first time with his partner, Riverus Woods, in 1851, it did a large business with the surrounding country, farmers bringing their products from a distance of twenty-five to thirty miles. The capacity of the mill often was sorely taxed, and many times its patrons were obliged to stay in the neighborhood and wait their turn for several days. Swan Creek in the early days supplied sufficient power for the operation of the mill, but with the influx of settlers its flow was diminished, and steam was resorted to. The transition was no less picturesque if more expeditious methods, but in the minds of the older generation at least, the drowsy hum of the busy old mill remains a quaint and interesting recollection. Its history was scarred with an element of tragedy, however, for on September 5, 1867, Mr. Rose was caught in a part of its machinery and instantly killed, and thus the old management had passed away, for the other partner, Riverus Woods, had responded to the call of the inevitable the year before. The wife of Mr. Rose formerly was Elizabeth Ingraham, of Oneida County, N.Y., and she became the mother of six children. She died November 29, 1870, a few years after the death of her husband, R. Rose. Harriet died near Santa Ana, Cal., September 21, 1898, at the age of seventy-one, having married a Mr. Nichols; Havilah R. Rose died in Avon August 11, 1900, at the age of seventy years; Silas N. died at Memphis, Mo., September 22, 1898, at the age of sixty-six years; Cyrus, twin of Silas N., died in Lake County, Ill., at the age of eight years; Birney died in Avon February2, 1877, at the age of thirty-one years; and W. H., the only survivor, is a resident of Avon, Ill.

W. H. Rose was born on a farm in Lake County, Ill., in September, 1838, and was educated in the Lake County and Avon public schools. He was twelve years old when his father moved to Avon to engage in milling, and he continued with his father in the mill until the latter's death, and then operated the mill on his own responsibility until disposing of it about 1869. He then bought a farm near Avon, of 180 acres, and now owns three farms in Warren County. About five years ago he traded some of his country land for his present home in Avon, and at present employs his leisure in looking after his country and town interests.

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A predilection for public affairs has drawn Mr. Rose into many county enterprises of a political, business and social nature. A staunch Republican, he has served as Supervisor, member of the Village Board, and member of the School Board which constructed the public school building. He was one of the organizers and chief promoters of the Fair Association, about thirty years ago, and served as its President. His life experiences have included a military service of six months during the Civil War as a Lieutenant in Company C, One Hundred and Thirty- Eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. For the past forty-five years he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in religion is a Universalist.

The marriage of Mr. Rose and Harriet A. Stevens, of New York, occurred in Waukegan, Lake County, Ill., in 1860, Mrs. Rose being a daughter of Almon Stevens, a native of New York, and a farmer of Lake County. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rose: Mrs. Frankie Leigh, Mrs. Florence Ming, and Mrs. Nellie Cline- the first two of Avon, and the last named of Abingdon, Ill. Mr. Rose is a man of character and purpose, and of unquestioned integrity. His life has been a busy and well directed one, and from both a character and material standpoint, may be accounted a successful one.

William Hamilton Rose Photographs courtesy of Jenepher Homer

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William Hamilton Rose, Avon (Fulton) Illinois Courtesy of Jenepher Homer

Ross, Felix W.—Enlisted 4 May 1864, 23 years old, as a private in Co. D, 137 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’ 8 ½” tall; dark hair; blue eyes; born Morgan Co., Indiana. Mustered out 24 September 1864. Died 20 November 1923 in Shenandoah, Iowa.

Ross, Felix W.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 10 August 1840 in Morgantown, Indiana. Married Elizabeth Teatsworth (born Fulton County, Illinois on 28 January 1845) on 11 December 1866 in Peoria County, Illinois. Their children: Clide born 13 November 1867 and Mabel R. born 6 November 1869. Felix and family lived in Fulton County until 1867, Peoria County for 15 years; and then Fremont County, Iowa. In 1926 Elizabeth’s address was 109 W. Thomas Avenue, Shenandoah (Page) Iowa.

Felix’s disability pension was based on a lame back and kidney trouble. He died of interstitial nephritis on 20 November 1923. Burial Rose Hill Cemetery, Shenandoah (Page) Iowa.

Rowe, James J.—Enlisted 21 June 1864, 34 years old, as a surgeon in 138 Infantry. Mustered out 14 October 1864.

Rowe, James J.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 20 February 1830. Married Mary J. Cutler in Avon (Fulton) Illinois on 4 October 1860. Mary was born 12 June 1849 in Crown Point, Indiana. Their children: Leonard D. born 30 March 1862; Lena born 30 September 1868; Jesse born 28 February 1870; and Marie born 27 February 1873. James J. Rowe died in Abingdon, Illinois, on 29 February 1908.

Schanck, Jr., Jacob Brimfield—Enlisted 25 May 1861, 25 years old, as a private in Co. C, 17 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9 ½” tall; black hair; black eyes; married; born Hopewell (Mercer) New Jersey. Discharged 29 April 1862 at Shiloh, Tennessee, for chronic diarrhea.

Enlisted 14 August 1862 in Co. I, 72 Infantry and discharged 29 October 1864. Promoted to 1 Sgt 19 September 1863 and to 1 Lt 29 October 1863. Enlisted 13 February 1865 in Cos. F and

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A, 2 US. Vet. Vols. Discharged 3 February 1866. Schanck, Jr., Jacob Brimfield—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in Hopewell, New Jersey. Married Mary J. Edmonson in McDonough County, Illinois, on 27 March 1859. Mary was born in Fulton County, Illinois on 1 March 1838. Their daughter was Anna Steinhardt born 2 February 1860 and living at 1248 Early Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

“He came home after his final discharge about the 1st of March 1866, and left home again April 9, 1866. I have never seen him since. There was no legal separation, he never applied for or received a divorce. . . . When he left home it was understood that I was to join him he went away to find employment and a permanent home for his family. We had no quarrel of any kind at this the time he left home, but some days prior to the time he left home I learned by interception or rather, finding in one of his coat pockets a letter from a young lady in New Home, Connecticut signed herself ‘Phillipa.’ When I questioned him about the matter, he explained to me that while the last military organization to which he belonged i.e., Hancock’s 2 US Vet Col was stationed at New Home Conn just prior to this discharge, he was taken sick, and this young lady in question nursed him. That when he left her she said she was going to write to him and I guess she kept her promise. A little later on I found in one of his pockets a letter he had written to her. If they had been prospective husband and wife the letters could not have been more loving and affectionate. My recollection is that she was ignorant of the fact that he was then a married man. I remember that in the letters she addressed to him she made this remark ‘I cannot see how I can wait until June to see you.’ In his reply he stated ‘Don’t worry about not seeing me. I will be with you long before the first of June. I have a little business to transact here, then will go to Chicago and get some money, then contact you.’ I questioned him about the matter and he said ‘Oh, it does not amount to anything. She simply fell in love with me while nursing me and that is all there is about it.’ . . . The truth of the matter is I was innocent and unsuspecting, and had all the confidence in the world in him. And when just before he left me he told me always to address him under the name of Michael Harrison, I did not then suspect anything. He wrote to me every week, sometimes I received two letters per week and wrote to him regularly and always addressed the letter to Michael Harrison. When he left our home at Avon, Ill. April 9, 1866, he went to Chicago, from Chicago to Redwing Minn, then to Buffalo, NY, from Buffalo to New York City, then to Galveston, Texas. Arrived there sometime in April 1867. He wrote home from Galveston every week, and in the last letter I received from him dated I think about the 18th of August 1867, he informed me that he was making all arrangements for me to join him at that place, and stated in his next letter he would send me money to pay my way to Galveston. He was employed by William Hendley & Co. and the next information I have of my husband was from the senior member of the firm Mr. William Henley that was that Mr. Schanck was dead. I knew from the tenor of his letter the he thought I was Mr. Schanck’s married sister. I cannot know how he got that impression; he knew him only as Michael Harrison and knew that he had written to me under my correct name. He never intimated that he had a wife with him; or that he was living with anyone as his wife. . . . I inserted an advertisement in one of the Galveston papers some few years ago asking for names of those who knew him; and received several letters in response—one from A. B Crane in which he stated that he was acquainted with my husband and knew at the time that he was going under an assumed name. Also had a letter from the party who nursed him in his last sickness. . . . My husband’s parents lived at Woodville, N.J. They are long since dead. Don’t know that he has any brothers or sisters living. He had one brother that I knew of. He is dead. His people all lived at or near Woodville, N.J. but I do not know the names of any now living. “—Mary Schanck, 1894

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Jacob Brimfield Schanck, Jr. died of yellow fever in Galveston, Texas, on 28 August 1867. He was 30 years old. One of his coworkers wrote: “he sometimes worked in Union soldiers pants. He had yellow fever and recovered of it and went to work, but took a relapse and died in 1867. He used to sleep in the warehouse on the wharf. None of the fellow workers remember him having a wife.”

The pension examiner stated his opinion: “I suspect it will appear that he actually abandoned claimant and was remarried with the New Home woman. There is no testimony to show that such is the case.”

Jacob Brimfield Schanck, Jr., from Pension File, National Archives

Courtesy Janet Turnbull Shaffer, Robert—Enlisted 8 March 1865, 32 years old, as a private in Co. H, 83 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9 ¼” tall; black hair; black eyes; born in Pennsylvania. Transferred to Co. I, 61 Infantry. Died 14 December 1908 in Shelby, Iowa.

Shaffer, Robert—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 6 November 1832 in Blair County, Pennsylvania. Married Elizabeth Fouts in Ellisville (Fulton) Illinois on 28 February 1854. Their children: A. F. born 27 February 1855 and resided in Crawford County, Kansas in 1897; L. E. Evans born 18 February 1857 and lived in Shelby County, Iowa in 1897; Jessie B. Morton born 2 December 1866 and lived in Shelby County, Iowa

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in 1897; twins George and William, born 10 June 1871 and lived in Shelby County, Iowa in 1897; and Lizzie A. born 27 September 1876 and lived in Shelby County, Iowa in 1897.

Bothered by granular eyelids at Franklin, Tennessee, in 1865. “Cannot recognize a person at 50 feet distant.”—physician, 1898. “The regimental surgeon prescribed ‘blue vitrial’ as a remedy and I used it on his eyes by order of the surgeon.”—William H. Perkin, 1897

He also suffered from dropsy, senile debility, rheumatism, disease of the eyes; kidney and heart disease, and vertigo. “Every 2 to 3 years there comes an open sore on my left leg which lasts from a week to 3 months at a time and causes pain and annoyance. I am frequently troubled by a being dizzy.”—1891

He went to Iowa in 1876. In 1882 he was a tenant on D. C. Cooper’s farm in Shelby, Iowa. Robert Shaffer died 14 December 1908.

Shankland, Robert Bruce—Enlisted 18 October 1864, 34 years old, as a private in Co. I, 36th Infantry. Substitute for Oliver Crissey. Description at enlistment: 5’9 ½” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; born in Ohio. Mustered out 8 October 1865 at New Orleans, Louisiana. [Note on Oliver Crissey: In 1860 he was a 25 year old harnessmaker, born in Connecticut. By 1870 he had married Margaret (32), had 2 children: Herbert G. (8) and Clarence (2), and lived in Union Township, Fulton County, Illinois. By 1900 he is a lumber dealer.]

Shankland, Robert Bruce—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 1 October 1831 in Wayne County, Ohio. Married Augusta M. Dow in 1856. She died 25 January 1857 in Madison, Ohio. Married Katie E. Wells in Geneva, Ohio, on 1 March 1858. Robert’s children: Willis B. born 12 June 1856; Emma born 29 June 1859; George E. born September 1861; Charles W. born October 1863; Vincent C. born August 1866; Francis S. (Frank) born February 1869 and living in Des Moines, Iowa in 1912; Maud A. born May 1873; and Claudena born March 1877.

His disability pension was based on chronic diarrhea at Duck River, Tennessee, before the Battle of Franklin. In 1907 the family lived in Jasper County, Iowa. Robert Bruce Singleton died 26 March 1912 of asthmatic heart trouble in Monroe (Polk) Iowa.

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Robert Bruce Shankland, photograph by RRankin at Findagrave.com

Shofer, Robert—Enlisted 8 March 1865, 32 years old, as a private in Co. I, 61 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9 ½” tall; black hair; black eyes; born in Tennessee. Also served in Co. H, 83 Infantry. Mustered out 8 September 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. Died 14 December 1908.

Singleton Brothers—Albert P., Amos, Allen, and Joseph were brothers.

Singleton, Albert Parker—Enlisted 4 March 1865, 30 years old, as a private in Co. H, 83 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6 ½” tall; black hair; hazel eyes; born 9 March 1844 in Hocking County, Ohio. Also served in Co. I, 61 Infantry. Died 25 July 1921 in Buckley Village (Iroquois) Illinois. Burial Woodland Cemetery, Buckley (Iroquois) Illinois.

Singleton, Albert Parker—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 9 March 1844 in Hocking County, Ohio, to James Singleton (Ohio) and Martha Arnold (Connecticut). Married Celinda McIntyre in Prairie City, Illinois, on 25 December 1869. Their children: Jennie born 12 August 1871; Francis E. born 10 December 1873; Jesse A. born 18 December 1875; Leonard W. born 28 September 1877; James H. born 8 October 1879; Mable born 20 September 1883; and William N. born 28 September 1886. From 1865 to 1869 they lived in Avon (Fulton) Illinois, and then in Loda, Illinois until 1885. They then moved to Buckley, Illinois. In 1901 his occupation was a tile manufacturer.

Albert Parker Singleton died 25 July 1921 in Buckley (Iroquois) Illinois on myocarditis. Celinda died 22 February 1922. Burial at Woodland Cemetery, Buckley, Illinois.

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Albert P. Singleton, photograph by

Cindy Welsh Carlson

Singleton, Allen P.—Enlisted 4 March 1865, 20 years old, as a private in Co. I, 61 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6 1/4” tall; light hair; black eyes; born in Ohio. Also served in 83 Infantry. Mustered out 8 September 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.

Singleton, Amos A.—Enlisted 25 May 1861, 23 years old, in Co. C, 17 Infantry, as a private. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; brown hair; grey eyes; born Hocking (Hocking) Ohio. Discharged 29 April 1862 at Shiloh, Tennessee for chronic diarrhea.

Singleton, Amos A.—1860 Federal Census, Avon, Fulton County, Illinois: Son of James Singleton 47 years old, born in Ohio. Mother is Hannah (47) born in Rhode Island. Siblings were Russell (18); Albert (15); James (13); Electa (8); William (5) and Sarah (3). Amos was 22 and born in Ohio. Electa was the first child born in Illinois.

Singleton, Joseph R.—Enlisted 4 March 1865, 29 years old, as a private in Co. H, 83 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9 ¾” tall; black hair; hazel eyes; laborer; born in Ohio. Also served in Co. I, 61 Infantry. Mustered out 8 September 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.

Singleton, Joseph R.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Alvira Haunts in Greenbush (Warren) Illinois on 4 July 1858. Their children: James E. born 1859; Lydia L. [Standard] born 1860; Sarah A. [Herbert] born 1862; George W. born 1866; and Viola H. [James] born 1869. In 1890 the family lived in Avon (Fulton) Illinois. Joseph R. Singleton died on 12 September 1904 in Avon.

Obituary for Alvira H. Singleton (unidentified source) from Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Alvira Haunts was born in Richmond, Virginia, April 18th, 1841, and departed this life June 19th, 1923, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. E. James of Prairie City. Deceased came to Illinois with her parents when a small child, settling near St. Augustine, where she resided until her marriage to Joseph R. Singleton, July 4th 1858. They went to housekeeping at St. Augustine, later moving to Prairie City, where they lived a short time, the moving to Avon where they resided until the death of the husband on September 12, 1904. She continued to reside there until five years ago, when she came to Prairie City to make her home with Mrs. E. E. James. To this union were born

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seven children: James E. of Avon, Louvina, who passed from this life May 10, 1915, Sarah A. of Aurora, Albert B. who died at the age of five years, George W. of Chicago, Viola of Prairie City and Nettie M. who died May 26

th 1897. She united with the Universalist church in Avon about twenty-five years ago from which funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock, conducted by Rev. Thomas London Jones, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Prairie City. The remains were laid to rest in the Avon cemetery.

Joseph R. Singleton, Avon Cemetery

Photograph courtesy Janine Crandell www.illinoisancestors.org/fulton Stanton, Franklin M.—Enlisted 4 May 1864, 18 years old, as a private in Co. D, 137 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’ 6 ½” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born in Lewis Co., New York. Sick in hospital at Memphis, Tennessee. Mustered out 24 September 1864.

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Franklin M. Stanton, Avon Cemetery

Photograph courtesy Janine Crandell www.illinoisancestors.org Stevens, Charles—Enlisted 7 May 1864, 18 years old, as a private in Co. C, 138 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; brown hair; gray eyes; student; born Halday, Illinois. Mustered out 14 October 1864.

Stevens, Charles—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 9 March 1848 to Mr. and Mrs. Almon Stevens. His family arrived in Illinois in 1863. Married Theresa Mailliard in McDonough County, Illinois, or in Avon (Fulton) Illinois on 24 June 1868. They were married at her father’s home by a Catholic priest. Their children: Victory born 22 December 1869; Charley S. born 20 October 1870; Marna born 16 March 1871; Lola born 16 September 1873; William born 25 January 1875; Nella born 30 October 1876; Zenade born 31 August 1878; and Amanda born 27 May 1883.

In 1864 Charles Stevens was a fifer in the Army. Mary E. Churchill and Charlotte J. Simmons of Avon were Theresa’s sister. Charles died at home near Keytesville (Chariton) Missouri, on 21 July 1905, with burial at Avon (Fulton) Illinois.

Sturgeon, John—Enlisted 8 March 1865, 19 years old, in Co. H, 83 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 6’ ½” tall; black hair; black eyes; shoemaker; born in Ohio. Also served in Co. I, 61 Infantry. Mustered out 8 September 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.

Taylor, Benjamin—Enlisted 16 May 1864, 18 years old, as a private in Co. C, 138 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’4” tall; black hair; gray eyes; born Canton (Fulton) Illinois. Mustered out 14 October 1864.

Tharp, Lattin R.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 28 years old, as a private in Co. I, 72 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’11” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; married; born Perry County, Ohio. Promoted to corporal 14 January 1864. Wounded at Franklin, Tennessee 30 November 1864. Discharged 30 April 1865 for disability at Nashville, Tennessee. Died 11

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May 1910. Lattin R. Tharp—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in Perry County, Ohio. Married Ursula Mary Elisabeth Johnson in Morris (Gundy) Illinois on 29 December 1859. Their children: Robert F. and Eva J., both deceased by 1898; Harry G. born 2 December 1867; George L. born 17 November 1870; Mary A. born 5 June 1873 [married name Killinger of Nebraska]; Ellen born 25 January 1876; L. Roy born 17 October 1879; and Freddie May born 1885.

Lattin R. Tharp was wounded at Franklin, Tennessee, on 1 December 1864, by a gunshot wound which shattered the right wrist and disabled the muscle controlling the thumb and 2 forefingers, with the other fingers partially disabled. He was discharged 15 April 1865.

Archibald and Samuel Tharp submitted affidavits. One brother mentioned in the file was John E. Tharp, who attended the wedding. John lived in Montgomery County, Kansas in 1910.

Lattin R. Tharp died 11 May 1910 in Wayne (Wayne) Nebraska. Ursula died 21 March 1914.

Thomas, Louis Felix—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 44 years old, as a private in Co I, 72 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; black hair; hazel eyes; married; cooper; born in Rushicinot, France. Promoted to sergeant 1 December 1862. Mustered out 7 August 1865.

Thomas, Louis Felix—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Son of John Louis and Mary Rossemide [possibly incorrect spelling]. Married Mary Madoline Dupont in St. Louis, Missouri, on 27 March 1848, daughter of Louis and Mary Dupont. His daughter, Cecilia Camilla, born 17 August 1872, was the only child listed when asked for the names of those younger than 16 in 1888. He stated that he was healthy for the first fifteen months of enlistment, and then he was detached as a sergeant in Ambulance Corps of the 1 Division, 17 Army Corps of troops operating against the rebel general Marmaduke up the White River in Arkansas. When he arrived, there “were a good many teamsters who had what they called Army sore eyes, and a short time after he got the disease—this was sometime in December 1863.” He also had malarial fever in 1864.

“When he is exposed to rain or snow they get worse. He was a cooper by trade—can’t work because of sore eyes—now he works at outdoor work such as he can stand to do. In July, August, September his eyes inflame and he is unable to do anything and also in cold winter weather, especially when there is snow he is unable to work at all.”—Louis Thomas, 1881, as written by hearing examiner.

In 1886 the family lived in Buffalo Park (Cove) Kansas.

Louis Felix Thomas died of pneumonia from sclerosis of the liver on 18 January 1888 in Sloey, Kansas.

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Tourdot, Louis—Enlisted 14 October 1861, 23 years old, in Co. I, 11 Cavalry as a private. Description at enlistment: 5’3” tall; auburn hair; gray eyes; coal miner. Reenlisted as veteran at Clear Creek Mississippi. Mustered out 30 September 1865.

Truelock, James—Enlisted 10 October 1864, 25 years old, as a private in Co. H, 144th Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; light hair; blue eyes; laborer; born Scott Co., Illinois. Died 1 February 1865 at Alton, Illinois.

Trulock, Samuel M.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 43 years old, as a private in Co. I, 72 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; auburn hair; blue eyes; married; lawyer; born Kentucky. Killed in action at Franklin, Tennessee, 30 November 1864.

Vandel, Abram Walker “Abe”—Enlisted 22 December 1863, 18 years old, as a private in Co. L, 12 Cavalry. Also served in Co. G as consolidated. Died 15 June 1908.

Vandel, Abram Walker “Abe”—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Martha Jane Keown in Eden Township (Decatur) Iowa on 12 October 1867. She was born 24 July 1848 in Illinois, the daughter of John Keown of Pennsylvania and Mary Annmorrey [Ann Morrey?] of Ohio. Abe Vandel’s children: Sylvia A. born 8 September 1868 (living in Leon, Iowa in 1924); Samuel born 31 August 1870 (living in Lineville, Iowa in 1924); Sanford L. born 5 November 1872; Thomas S. born 26 October 1874; John born 1878; James A. born 12 April 1880; George born 1 December 1883; Goldie born 8 March 1885; and Martha J. born 6 June 1889.

While serving in Co. L of the 12 Cavalry in January of 1864 he came down with measles and chronic diarrhea, which led to heart disease, partial deafness and lung disease. In 1888 they lived in Pleasanton (Decatur) Iowa, where he died 15 June 1908 of heart disease. Martha Vandel died of a fractured hip, carcinoma of the stomach and bowels on 1 July 1924. Burial Cowles Cemetery, Pleasanton (Decatur) Iowa.

Information from Charles Hield, Abram Vandel’s great grandson: Abram Walker Vandel was born in 1846 in Galesburg, Illinois. He served as a Union soldier in the Civil War. He ran away from home and enlisted at the age of 16 in Illinois. His parents brought him back but apparently relented and he again enlisted, serving until the war ended. He was honorably discharged in 1865. He died in 1908 in Pleasanton, Iowa. Abram Walker Vandel was on the muster Roll of Company L, 12th Illinois Cavalry, which was mustered into U.S. Service June 12, 1864 at Camp Butler, Illinois during the Civil War.

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Abram Vandel, Photograph courtesy of Chuck Hield

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Abram W. Vandel, photograph courtesy of Charles Hield

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Abram W. Vandel, photograph by Charles Hield

Vertrees, William Jefferson—Enlisted 5 January 1864, 16 years old, as a private in Co. I, 72nd Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; born Warren Co., Illinois. Transferred to 33rd Infantry per SO 113 HQ AC Jul 17, 1865. Died 15 June 1908.

Vertrees, William Jefferson—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 28 April 1848 near Cameron (Warren) Illinois, the son of Joseph Vertrees and Elizabeth Hart. Married Mary Elizabeth McClelland in Quincy, Illinois, on 25 March 1875. Their children: Lillian May born 3 February 1876, who was declared an invalid and incompetent in 1932 and lived with her father; Charles Ray born 7 May 1880 (living in Peoria, Illinois in 1937); and Lewis Logan born 31 December 1883 and died by 1915. Charles Ray was a traveling salesman.

William J. Vertress supported his family by farming, merchandising, and as a salesman. He was “employed by my husband during the years 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872 and 1873 as a bookkeeper in the milling business and he boarded with me and also during the year 1874 and 1875. He was not a strong man, was thin of flesh.”—Rhoda E. Kern, 1889. He was discharged from the army with chronic diarrhea at Meridian, Mississippi. “Swamp Fever” followed, which led to emaciation.

He died 7 December 1936 at the Veterans Administration facility, where he had been a resident for 17 days of an abscess of the cornea following cataract surgery. He is buried in Bushnell, Illinois.

Wheeler, Aaron O.—Enlisted 24 September 1861, 32 years old, as a private in Co. G, 50th Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; carpenter; born Noble

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County, Ohio. Mustered out 27 September 1864. Wheeler, Aaron O.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Listing his birth place as Vermont, he married Fannie Butler in Bellow Falls, Vermont on 25 February 1851. Fannie was born in Marlboro, New Hampshire, on 8 April 1833, and died 25 March 1917 of “La Grippe and old age.” In 1899 Fannie stated “I have made an effort to get a public record showing the date of my marriage to Aaron O. Wheeler, but cannot get it for at that time we did not have to get a marriage license, just a written notice of the marriage tacked up on a church door, and if the parties went out of the state of New Hampshire they did not have to be published and we went to Vermont state. The person that married us was a stranger to us.” At the time of their marriage, Aaron and Fannie lived in Troy, New Hampshire. Mary A. Babbitt was their child; others were not listed in the file.

His pension claim was based on the affliction of chronic diarrhea and scurvy gotten while on march from Pittsburg Landing to Corinth. “He had the scurvy so bad he could move his front teeth back and forth with his tongue. His gums were almost all eaten away.”—James Babbitt, 1889.

He resided in St. Augustine (Knox) Illinois, dying 25 February 1899 at the age of 68. Possibly buried in Babbitt Cemetery, one mile south of St. Augustine.

Obituary of Aaron O. Wheeler

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Aaron O. Wheeler, Babbit Cemetery

Photograph courtesy Janine Crandell www.illinoisancestors.org Willis, John H.—Enlisted 5 May 1864, 18 years old, as a private in Co. C, 138 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; brown hair; gray eyes; laborer; born Patterson, New Jersey. Reenlisted.

Winchel, Elliot J.—Enlisted 12 May 1864, 26 years old, as a private in Co. C, 138 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; brown hair; gray eyes; born Batavia, Illinois. Mustered out 14 October 1864.

Winchell, Elliott J.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 18 December 1837 in Batavia, Illinois. Married Maria Jane Edo in Prairie City (McDonough) Illinois on 20 August 1873. Their children: Nellie born 11 June 1874; Alfred born 12 April 1876; and Emma O. born 22 June 1883. He suffered a hernia from being jerked upon the horn of a saddle during the war. In 1907 he lived in Avon (Fulton) Illinois and died there on 4 January 1908. Maria died 26 March 1908 in Avon.

Woods, Orlando J.—Enlisted under the alias of Owen J. Woods on 5 May 1864, 18 years old, as a private in Co. H, 138 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; light hair; born Avon (Fulton) Illinois. Mustered out 14 October 1864. Died 23 February 1914 in Avon (Fulton) Illinois.

Woods, Walter Scott—Enlisted 26 February 1864, 29 years old, as a private in Co. G, 50 Infantry. Promoted adjutant. Died 22 August 1865.

Woods, Walter Scott—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: In April 1865 he resigned on a surgeon’s certificate from tuberculosis of the left lung from exposure

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caused by sleeping in cold, wet weather without ground covers or protection from the weather.

Walter S. Woods, Avon Cemetery

Photograph courtesy Janine Crandell www.illinoisancestors.org Wright, Albert S.—Enlisted 14 December 1861, 25 years old, as a private in Co. G, 50 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; black hair; black eyes; born Keene (Cheshire) New Hampshire. 1 January 1864 reenlisted as 1 Sergeant and commissioned 2 Lt, but killed before being mustered as Lt. at battle of Altoona, Georgia 5 October 1864. Zolman, Alfred P.—Enlisted 8 October 1861, as private, 23 years old, in Co. G, 50 Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; brown hair; hazel eyes; clerk; born in Massachusetts. Killed by a falling tree 16 May 1862 near Monterey, Tennessee.