Young Hickory - Illinois Ancestors

Union Civil War Enlistments by Residents of
Young Hickory Township
(Fulton County) Illinois
February 2014—These men volunteered for the Civil War from Young Hickory 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 me at
[email protected]. Janet Turnbull
Alms, Henry G.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 24 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 6’ tall; dark hair; blue eyes; born Young Hickory (Fulton) Illinois.
Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.
Alms, Henry G.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married
Catharine M. Kimes on 12 October 1865 in Fulton County, Illinois. Their children: Flora L.
born 10 November 1866; William A. born 14 April 1880; Louis A. born 15 May 1882; and
Casey E. born 14 January 1881.
On or about July 29, 1863, he was taken violently sick with the typhoid fever and from July 29 to
September 25, 1863 he was under treatment at the regimental hospital at Camp Sherman,
Mississippi. That from the effects of said sickness he became deaf in his right ear. That on the
6th day of June 1864 on the skirmish line at Tullahoma, Georgia, he received a gunshot wound
between the left shoulder blade and backbone and received treatment by the regimental surgeon
at company quarters. That said wound irritates and discharges and constantly troubles him;
disabling and rendering him helpless.
“The reason why I can not furnish medical evidence is that shortly after my return home from the
Army I went to Docktor Johnson who was my father’s family physician and he examined me and
told me that the drum of my ear was decayed and there could be nothing done for my hearing
and he also stated that I had a general disability and the less I doctored the better it would be for
me. He reckomends me to take a kind of patent medicine that was called Wine of Wildcherry
and Tar and I used that remedy for a good many years whenever I would take a bad cold.”—
Henry G. Alms, 1886
Residences: 1865-1879 Fulton County, Illinois. 1881 Mariville (Bates) Missouri. August 1882
Dadeville (Dade) Missouri. July 1885 P.O. Walnut Shade (Taney) Missouri. June 1886 - 1890
Branson (Taney) Missouri. June 1897 Anvil (Lincoln) Oklahoma Territory. 1893-1894
Chandler (Lincoln) Oklahoma Territory. 1898 Anvil, Oklahoma Territory.
“My wife died October 8, 1889.” Henry died 14 January 1899 and is buried in Fairview
Cemetery, Shawnee (Pottawatomie) Oklahoma. 1
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The Long Blue Line: Civil War Union Soldiers & Sailors Buried in Oklahoma, N. Dale Talkington, page 8.
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Henry G. Alms, photograph by MilleBelle
Anno, Henry-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 36 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 6’1 ¼” tall; light hair; blue eyes; married; born Chillicothe (Ross)
Ohio. Died 27 August 1863 at Camp Sherman, Mississippi.
Beer, Simon B.--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 25 years old, as 1st Sgt. in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’ 5 ½” tall; auburn hair; grey eyes; teacher; born Joshua Township,
(Fulton) Illinois. Promoted to 2 Lt at LaGrange, Tennessee. Resigned 10 August 1863.
Reenlisted 4 October 1864 as a private in Co. D, 36th Infantry. Discharged 5 December 1864.
Beer, Simon B.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 29
September 1837 in Joshua Township (Fulton) Illinois. Married Ellen Amanda Smith in
Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois on 21 August 1871. Ellen was born 21 March 1844 in Fairview
(Fulton) Illinois. Lula Maud Parks was their daughter, born 14 October 1872.
Simon B. Beer died 23 June 1910, and Ellen Beer died 8 March 1920 at Fairview (Fulton)
Illinois.
Bevier, Abram (Used alias of Williams, Jackson)—Enlisted 10 March 1865, 18 years old, as a
private in Co. A, 11th Cavalry. Description at enlistment: 5’6 ½” tall; light hair; hazel eyes; born
in Tennessee. Promoted to corporal. Mustered out 30 September 1865 at Memphis, Tennessee.
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Bevier, Abram—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Unfortunately the
file did not reveal why he used an alias. Married Elizabeth M. Frail in Toulon (Stark) Illinois on
22 November 1876. The only child recorded in the file was a son, Billie B. Bevier, born 30
November 1885.
Abram suffered from rheumatism from 1870, often with severe pain of the right hip passing
down the leg.
Abram Bevier died on 5 January 1907. His address was 417 North Fremont Street, Kewanee
(Henry) Illinois. He and Elizabeth owned two houses on a lot, and supported themselves by
renting one of the houses, for either eight or twelve dollars a month. Elizabeth died 1 December
1923.
Bowers, Daniel-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 19 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’8’ tall; light hair; blue eyes; born Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
Killed 14 May 1864 at Resaca, Georgia. Brother of Joseph Bowers.
Bowers, Daniel and Joseph—1860 U.S. Census, Fulton County, Illinois—Sons of David Bowers
(44) and Susan Bowers (40), both from Pennsylvania. Their children: Daniel (17), Joseph (15),
Jacob (11), John (5) and first child born in Illinois; Martha (5), Cathrine (3), and Rhinaldo (2).
Bowers, Joseph—Enlisted 21 August 1862, 18 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; black hair; blue eyes; born Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
Killed at Resaca, Georgia, on 14 May 1864. Brother of Daniel Bowers.
Bowers, Joseph—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 23 April
1845 to Susan Zeager and King D. Bowers, married on 21 April 1840. The family went to
Illinois from Pennsylvania. King D. Bowers died 15 May 1891. Susan Bowers died 10
September 1905.
Joseph Bowers was killed in the line of duty at Resaca, Georgia, when a tree fell on him. Burial
at West Midway Cemetery, London Mills (Fulton) Illinois.
Bruner, Johnson-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 30 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; dark hair; dark eyes; born Newton (Licking) Ohio.
Transferred to Invalid Corps 1863.
Bruner, Johnson—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in Indiana.
Married Elizabeth Slaughterback in Crawford County, Indiana, on 20 July 1854. Their children:
Martha born 27 January 1856; Charles N. born 19 March 1858; Sarah C. born 23 May 1861;
William J. born 4 October 1867; Elizabeth born 27 June 1870; Daniel born 3 September 1872;
David born 21 June 1875; and Juliann born 10 June 1878.
Johnson Bruner died of heart disease, 67 years old, in Shoals (Martin) Indiana, on 8 November
1898. He was a blacksmith by trade.
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Johnson Bruner, Photograph courtesy of Lawrence Overmire
Clark, Henry-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 31 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 6’ tall; black hair; hazel eyes; born Canton (Fulton) Illinois. Killed 25
November 1863 at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee.
Clark, Henry—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Killed at
the Battle of Mission Ridge, 25 November 1863. Married Mary Cain in Herman (Knox) Illinois
on 20 March 1853. Their children: Caroline born 16 August 1855 and died 16 July 1901 in
Canton (Fulton) Illinois; John H. born 2 February 1858 and died 3 October 1877 at Fairview
(Fulton) Illinois.
Mary Clark remarried in Macomb (McDonough) Illinois on 7 April 1864 to John Smith. Mr.
Smith died 6 December 1902 in Peoria County, Illinois, with burial at Fairview Cemetery. In
1903 Mary Clark Smith lived in St. Augustine (Knox) Illinois, dying in London Mills, Illinois on
13 April 1915 of a stroke. Clark Sebree of London Mills, Illinois was her grandson in 1915.
Combs, Andrew J.—Enlisted 16 August 1861, 25 years old, as a private in Co. A, 47th Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’ 7 1/2” tall; dark hair; blue eyes; born Highland County, Ohio.
Mustered out 11 October 1864 as corporal.
Combs, Andrew J.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married
Harriet S. Clark in Baldwin, Kansas, on 29 September 1867. Her brother was Samuel L. Clark
of Kansas City (Jackson) Missouri in 1901. Their children living in 1898: Laura L. born 9 July
1868; Albert Carry born 11 August 1873 and died 1940; Frank Robert born 30 August 1876 and
died 1947; and Harry Earl born 29 May 1882 and died 1926.
The family lived in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1899; Baldwin, Kansas in 1900; and 1201 E. 34th
Street, Kansas City, Missouri in 1916. Andrew J. Combs died suddenly of heart disease at the
age of 65 at 1616 Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri, on 24 December 1899. His wife, Harriet,
died 9 April 9, 1916 of pernicious anemia. Her death certificate lists her father as Richard Clark
of North Carolina and her mother as Eve Myers.
Combs, Cary A.-- Enlisted 9 August 1862, 30 years old, as a corporal in Co. G, 83rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; dark hair; blue eyes; born Highland County, Ohio. Mustered
out 26 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee, as a private.
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Combs, Cary A.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Jane
Elizabeth Cover on 25 February 1867 in Galesburg, Illinois, born in Adams County,
Pennsylvania, on 27 November 1846. He and Jane had no living children in 1898.
Cary was in the hospital for rheumatism at Ft. Donelson. He was detailed as a hospital cook
when able to do light work.
In 1894 they lived in Walnut (Crawford) Kansas. Cary Combs died 2 June 1901 of paralysis in
Kansas. Jane died 11 April 1933.
Cox, Alfred J.-- Enlisted 7 March 1865, 19 years old, as a private in Co. A, 55th Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’ 7 ½” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; born Ohio. Mustered out 8 June
1865 at David’s Island, New York Harbor at Decamp General Hospital.
Cunningham, Abram H.-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 25 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 6’ tall; brown hair; hazel eyes; born in Herman (Mercer)
Illinois. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky, as a corporal.
Cunningham, Abram H.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married
Mary Arringdale in Knox County, Illinois, on 19 April 1866. Frank Arringdale was her brother.
One child is listed in the file: Edward Elwood, born 6 May 1868 and noted as an “invalid.”
Abram suffered hip and back pain and lameness from the march between Memphis and
Chattanooga.
From 1857 until 1860 the family lived in Hermon (Knox) Illinois; 1860 till 1865 in Ellisville
(Fulton) Illinois; then Kansas City, Kansas; and Columbus City (Louisa) Iowa.
Abram H. Cunningham died 15 January 1904 of heart disease and pneumonia in Louisa County,
Iowa.
Daily, James A.-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 33 years old, as a corporal in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; dark hair; dark eyes; blacksmith; born Lee (Blair)
Pennsylvania. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky as sergeant.
Daily, James A.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: He ruptured his
right side while building a breastwork for the artillery at Big Sandy, Georgia, in June 1864.
“There was a log house stood right between the two lines and a detail was made from the Pioneer
Corps, in which I was serving at the time, to go and get the logs off this house for the use of the
artillery, further back. I had made three trips all right and was making the fourth and we and
another man had a very heavy log up and were taking it back, when I felt something give way
down here (placing hand on right groin) . . . . [When told to go to the Division doctor] he did not
even examine me, but commenced cursing at me. “God damn you” said he, “Where do you
belong anyway?” I told him I was in the Pioneer Corps. “Well, then damn you” says he, “You’d
better get back where you belong!” . . . I went back to the captain and told him what the doctor
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said. “Well, Sergeant, that’s pretty hard,” says he, “but they’re on a drunk down there today.”
[The doctor] belonged to the 70th Ohio Vols and was killed the next day.”—James A. Daily,
1888
Married Malinda Francis in Ellisville (Fulton) Illinois on 3 July 1853. She died 28 February
1900. Married Harriet Ameda Cravens in Fall River, Kansas on 20 December 1900. This was
her third marriage. His children: Anniss M. born 13 April 1854; Martha C. born February 1858;
Winey [Winnie?] A. born 13 July 1859; James O. F. born November 1862 or 1863; William S.
born 3 August 1865; Eva R. born September 1868 with married name of Marvel of Niles,
Oklahoma in 1910; Henritta born 27 August 1872; Francis A. born September 1875; and Lilly
M. born 10 July 1878.
In 1906 he applied for an increase in his pension, as he “had no health at all.” In addition to the
hernia, James Daily suffered from chronic diarrhea. “He is so poor that only for periodical
donations from neighbors, though chiefly from the local members of the G.A.R., of which
claimant is a member in good standing, he and his family must have gone to the poor house.”—
A.A. Sweetser, Special Examiner, 1888
In 1867 the family moved from Illinois to Bates County, Missouri. 1870 to Kansas. In 1872
they were in Wood County, Kansas, then Elk County, Kansas, then Siloam Springs (Benton)
Arkansas. In 1900 Fall River (Greenwood) Kansas, and 1906 in Weatherford (Custer)
Oklahoma. James A. Daily died 28 October 1910 of nephritis and is buried at Niles Cemetery,
Niles (Canadian) Oklahoma.
John Daily was his brother.
James A. Daily, Photograph courtesy of
Walking Dead at Findagrave.com
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James Daily and his wife, Malinda Francis
Photograph courtesy of Joan Kobernik Hoeft
Daily, John Franklin--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 24 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; dark hair; blue eyes; born Redding, Illinois.
Mustered out 15 June 1865 at Cairo, Illinois.
Daily, John Franklin—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 14
December 1836 in Williamsburg (Blair) Pennsylvania. His father was James Daily. Married
Arminda “Minnie” J. Frost in June 1865. She died at Ft. Gentry (Scott) Arkansas in January
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1911. Married Julie Elizabeth Reynolds on 16 August 1916 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Her
first husband by the name of Shortwell had died in Oregon. His children with Minnie are:
Anthon James born 12 July 1871; Edward J. born 11 August 1873; John E. born 24 August 1880;
and Charles A. born 17 November 1885. He noted that three other children, Alice, Benard, and
Flora were deceased.
While guarding prisoners in February 1863 on the move from Jackson, Tennessee, to Cairo,
Illinois, he got a severe cold and “not having recovered from an attack of measles [caught from
prisoners], I had a relapse resulting in bronchitis.” He also suffered a hernia from moving logs to
make a breastworks.
In November 1922 he married Miss Hila M. Robertson in Gentry (Benton) Arkansas. She was
25 years old and he was 85 years old. On July 21, 1924 their daughter, Eunice M., was born. In
1926 Hila deserted John and went to Ft. Smith, Arkansas. The couple legally divorced in
September 1927. Hila married Carl E. Augusten of Star Rock (Cook) Minnesota in 1929.
John left Illinois in 1870, and lived in Kansas until 1890 when he moved to Benton County,
Arkansas. He died there of erysipelas of the throat and chronic bronchitis on 4 December 1931,
with burial in the Gentry Cemetery.
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Daily family record from pension file, National Archives, Courtesy of Janet Turnbull
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John Franklin Daily, photograph courtesy of
Joan Kobernik Hoeft
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John Franklin Dailey, photograph courtesy TS Lundberg Nee Sternburg
Darland, Benjamin M.-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 19 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born Williamsburg (Blair)
Pennsylvania. Died 22 September 1863 at home.
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Davis, Ebenezer-- Enlisted 21 August 1862, 28 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’7 ½” tall; black hair; grey eyes; married; born Buffalo (Lawrence)
Indiana. Discharged 6 April 1863 for disability.
Davis, Ebenezer—1860 US Census, Young Hickory, Fulton County, Illinois: Ebenezer Davis is
28 years old, a farmer born in Indiana. His wife is Margaret, 29 years old, born in Ohio. Their
children: Henry (8); Jonas (4) and Louis (1), all born in Illinois.
Davis, Ebenezer—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married
Margaret Cline at her parents’ farm in Hickory Township in Fulton County, Illinois, on 9
October 1851 by William Buckner, Minister of the Gospel.
The Pension Bureau questioned Margaret Davis in 1895: “I was 21 years of age at time of
marriage, my husband was two years younger. My parents, Louis Cline, Eliza Hummel, William
Hummel and others were present at our marriage. My father is dead, my mother Polly Cline
lives in London Mills, Ills. Louis Cline is in Abingdon, Ill. Eliza and William Hummel live near
Cherryvale, Montgomery County, Kansas. William Hummel married my aunt. My maiden
name was Margareth Cline. Neither I nor Ebenezer Davis ever were married before we married
each other. There were born to us nine children, of which only five are living: Henry; Jonas;
Benj; and Minda Davis; and Alice Hessley the youngest Minda Davis was 21 years of age when
husband died. Jonas Davis and Minda Davis were present when their father died. Henry Davis
lives near Shannon City Union County, Iowa. Jonas Davis, Benj. Davis and Minda Davis live
here in Abingdon. Alice Hessley’s PO address is Alton, Osborn Co., Kansas.
I knew husband Ebenezer Davis for about 10 years before marriage. I do not know that there is
any hereditary disease in the family of my husband’s parents, no consumption or bronchitis that I
know of. Two of my children died of congestive chills, one died of diphtheria and one with the
measles. My husband had measles before he went into the army, he had them when he was
small, never had diphtheria. After marriage we lived one year with uncle Isaac Cline on his
farm, from there we moved on another farm of Isaac Cline and lived there about 10 years;
husband then bought some land in Young Hickory Twp Fulton Co. Ills. I do not know how long
we lived on that farm. Husband lived there at time of enlistment. From thence we moved to
Union Co., Iowa and lived on a rented place. I do not know how long we lived in Union Co,
Iowa, our PO address was Crestson Iowa. I think we returned to Abingdon about 13 years ago
and have lived there ever since.”
Asked about Ebenezer’s condition when he returned from the Army: “He was sick, unable to
work any, his throat hurt him, he complained about his heart . . . he was emaciated and thin. My
brother Henry Cline brought him home, his PO address is Carthage Jasper Co. Mo. “
Lewis Cline, 1895: “Mrs. Margaret Davis, the widow of Ebenezer Davis, is my sister. It was
said that one of his brothers died of consumption contracted from exposure while working in a
coal mine. Ebenzer Davis also dug coal before he went into the army but not very much. The
mine was near Fairview, Ills. My wife, Mary Cline, is a sister to Ebenezer Davis.”
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Ephraim W. Irons, 1895: “I last saw [Ebenezer Davis] about a year before he died. He was then
just a living skeleton. He had what the doctor called consumption and he looked like a person
who had consumption. He never saw a well day after he came out of the army. He was not a
stout healthy looking boy when I first met him [1851]. Well, his mother died of consumption and
his aunt (his mother’s sister) died of consumption. His brother Joe looked consumptive, but I
don’t know whether he died of it or not. His father was drowned.”
Jesse Irons: “He had two sisters, Rachel Ann and Betsy who died of consumption, and another
sister Ellen Richardson of Abingdon has consumption and the last time I saw her she could
hardly walk across the floor, and I understand Lydia Cutherell another sister of Canton, Ills also
has consumption.”
Susan Irons, 1895: “I am the sister of Margaret Davis.
Ebenezer Davis died at Abingdon, Illinois on 28 December 1894 of sore throat and affliction of
his lungs.
Ebenezer Davis, photograph by CJ
Dawson, William-- Enlisted 14 February 1865, 37 years old, as a private in Co. 3, 1st US Army
Corps. Description at enlistment: 5’7 ½” tall; sandy hair; blue eyes; born England. Mustered out
February 1866 at Elmira, New York, as a private of Co. H, 2nd US Veteran Volunteer Infantry.
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Dyer, Marion—Enlisted 16 August 1861, 25 years old, as a private in Co. A, 47th Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; light hair; blue eyes; married. Mustered out 11 October
1864.
Fingel, Charles Philip—Enlisted 4 May 1864 in Co. D, 137th Infantry and honorably discharged
24 September 1864. Reenlisted 7 March 1865, 19 years old, as a private in Co. A, 55th Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’6 ¼” tall; brown hair; grey eyes; born Germany. Mustered out 14
August 1865 at Little Rock, Arkansas.
Fingel, Charles Philip—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 21
February 1844 in Babenhausen, Germany to John Fingel. Married Sarah B. Burson 13 January
1867 in Canton (Fulton) Illinois.
Children living in 1898: Mary F. Moore born 1872/1874; Margaret for 1874/1877; Carl C. born
1876/1880. There were conflicting dates of birth in the record. In 1914 they lived at 357 West
Chestnut, Canton (Fulton) Illinois.
Charles Philip Fingel died 29 March 1920. Sarah Fingel died 2 October 1912. Burial
Greenwood Cemetery, Canton (Fulton) Illinois.
Charles P. Fingel, Photograph courtesy Bruce Weirauch, www.illinoisancestors.org
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Fisher, Christopher P.-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 33 years old, as a corporal in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’ 8 ½” tall; light hair; grey eyes; married; born Burlington
(Burlington) New York. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky, as 1st Sgt. Died 18
November 1914 in Major County, Oklahoma. Burial at Waynoka Municipal Cemetery,
Waynoka (Woods) Oklahoma.
Fisher, Christopher P.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 6
May 1839 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to Jacob Fisher and Louisanna Garden, both
of Pennsylvania.
Christopher Fisher married Caroline “Carrrie” A. Swain in Galesburg (Knox) Illinois on 8
September 1868. They had five children, unnamed in the file. Christopher’s brother was Frank
M. Fisher, of London Mills (Fulton) Illinois in 1915. After muster out Christopher returned to
Fulton County, then to Butler County, Nebraska; Blaine County, Oklahoma; and Major County,
Oklahoma. In 1882 he worked as a carpenter and mechanic. In 1889 he was a storekeeper.
In May 1863 at LaGrange, Tennessee he was wounded in the left hand by an accidental
discharge of a musket while taking it from the barracks. The ball entered the center of his palm
and exited at the extremity of the ulna, resulting in contraction of the tendons of the ring finger
and loss of the pisiform bone in the wrist.
He injured his right arm in November 1882 when a team of horses ran way while hauling straw.
He was thrown between the horses and run over by the team and wagon. His muscle was
severed in the right arm.
Christopher P. Fisher died 18 November 1914 at home in Homestead (Major) Oklahoma of
prostate cancer. He is buried in Plymouth, Oklahoma. Carrie Fisher died 19 July 1940 in
Woodward County, Oklahoma.
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Christopher Fisher, photograph courtesy of John Andrews
Fisher, Joseph Wesley (used alias of John W. Fisher)--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 20 years old,
as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; black hair; grey eyes;
born Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Mustered out 22 May 1865 at New York Harbor.
Fisher, Joseph Wesley—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: His wife
stated that his correct name is Joseph, that an error was made at enlistment and was never
corrected. Another affiant stated that “John” was a childhood nickname. Born in Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania to Jacob and Louisanna Fisher. Brother of Christopher Fisher (above).
Married Addie (Adelaide) Flake on 18 October 1871 in Fulton County, Illinois. Joseph was a
teacher in Avon (Fulton) Illinois. Their children: Laura Edith born 8 August 1872; Anna
Gertrude born 14 November 1874; William Herbert born 25 November 1876; Ralph born 20
November 1878; Harry L. born 15 September 1882; Franklin E. born 16 November 1884 and
Audrey Mabel born 13 February 1891.
November 1864 at Griswoldville, Georgia, received a gun shot in the left thigh. The shell
entered outside of the thigh 4 ½ inches below the hip joint and passed upward and inward,
grazing bone and extracted about 1 ½ inches below the groin. A piece of his clothing came out
about a year later. He also had malaria, which later led to liver and spleen disease.
In 1888 he was a contractor and builder in Ellisville (Fulton) Illinois, and stayed in Fulton
County until 1902 when they went to Citronelle (Mobile) Alabama. In 1903 Addie kept the
Illinois Hotel, which was a home for tourists from the north. It was a three story building with
12 rooms on the second floor, 12 unfinished rooms on the third floor, and 7 rooms, including a
kitchen and a dining room, on the first floor. Room and board was $5 a week. Citronelle was a
popular resort area for its healing water, herbs and climate.
John W. Fisher died in Citronelle, Alabama, on 20 December 1901of pneumonia. Addie died in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 27 May 1934.
Fisher, Joshua J.-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 28 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; sandy hair; blue eyes; born Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania. Transferred 5 April 1864 to Invalid Corps as 1st Sgt.
Gardner, John S.-- Enlisted 22 August 1862, 40 years old, as a 1st Lt. in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’ 6” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; married; Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania. Resigned 5 February 1863.
Gardner, John S.—Civil War Pension file, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Mary
Mickey on 17 September 1844 in Loughlinstown, Pennsylvania. In 1898 they lived in Harper
(Harper) Kansas. His pension was based on partial paralysis, rheumatism and hernia. John
Gardner died 18 January 1893 in Harper, Kansas, and Mary Gardner died 26 December 1909.
Burial at Harper Cemetery, Harper (Harper) Kansas.
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John S. Gardner, photograph by Shirley Hause
Gladman, Thomas H.-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 25 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 6’ tall; dark hair; grey eyes; married; born Frederickstown
(Carroll) Maryland. Absent sick since 1 October 1863.
Gladman, Thomas H.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born 2 June 1837 in Ohio to W.B. Gladman of Ohio and Catherine Anderson of Virginia. M. H.
Gladman was a brother. Married Mary Herbert on 22 February 1855 in New London, Iowa.
Their two daughters: Mrs. Maggie Farnam, wife of George A. Farnam of Quenemo, Kansas and
Mrs. Lena Magee of Kansas City, Kansas.
During the war he had pneumonia, hepatitis, intermittent fevers, and kidney disease at Black
River, Mississippi.
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In 1903 he lived in Hopkins (Nodaway) Missouri, dying there of heart disease and cirrhosis of
the liver on 15 April 1910. Mary Gladman died in Kansas City, Kansas on 26 November 1920 at
8:00 p.m. Both are buried at Hopkins Cemetery, Hopkins (Nodaway) Missouri.
Thomas H. Gladman, photography by Beverly Williams
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Grady, Jesse-- Enlisted 14 February 1865, 18 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’8 ½” tall; light hair; grey eyes; born Brown County, Illinois.
Mustered out 16 September 1865 at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.
Grady, Jesse—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: At Ft. Leavenworth,
Kansas, on 15 August 1865 he was overcome with heat while guarding prisoners. This led to an
affliction of the heart and its resulting troubles, which in turn assisted in producing pulmonary
hemorrhage—Jesse Grady, 1888
Jesse Grady married May C. Hughes in Brown County, Illinois, on 26 November 1874. Their
children: Elmer born 17 June 1876; Ella born 14 February 1878; Herman born 30 May 1880;
Emry born 24 August 1882; Myrta May born 30 December 1885; James Henry born 16
September 1886; and Nettie Velma born 4 March 1889.
Jesse Grady died 21 March 1890 of consumption and heart disease.
Gray, David H.—Enlisted 16 August 1861, 19 years old, as a private in Co. A, 47th Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; dark hair; grey eyes; born Clinton County, Ohio. Died 6
November 1861 at Jefferson City, Missouri.
Hageman, John T.-- Enlisted 13 August 1862, 19 years old, as a private in Co. D, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born Fairview (Fulton)
Illinois. Discharged 28 December 1863 for disability.
Hageman, John T.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: First treated
for dysentery in August and September, 1863, John was hospitalized at Nashville, Tennessee,
and then moved to Louisville, Kentucky. On December 26, 1863, his father got his discharge
and went to bring John home. At Mendota, Illinois, John’s sickness prevented more travel, and
he died there on 4 January 1863.
Born to Cornelia Ann Little (born Somerset County, New Jersey) and Isaac Hageman, John was
the only son and the chief support of his parents and sisters. The family lived on a few acres of
barren and unproductive timber land, which John was helping his father clear when he enlisted.
Cornelia and Isaac were married 6 April 1843 in Fulton County, Illinois. There are several letters
from John to his parents in the pension file, and all expressed his love and concern for their
wellbeing. He sent money home and worried they were working too hard. Apparently his
mother had written that they had no winter clothing and he said he would send money home via
Mrs. Buck.
“I had my likeness taken for to let you see how I look down here and thought you would like to
have it. I will send it with Mrs. Hutling . . . it used to be the widow Bever. She lives out south of
Miners’. She is going to give out in meeting that she has some things and then set a day for to
distribute them. I told her if you wasn’t there to give it to Uncle William. You can get it from
him.”
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As his illness progressed, he wrote to his parents in September 1863 and suggested they could
get a discharge for him, as many of his fellow soldiers were ill and the company doctor felt
helpless. “Theodore Camman out at Fairview got a discharge and there is nothing the matter
with him. He was discharged by the secretary of War, his parents wrote and got it for him.”
Cornelia Hageman died 27 August 1889 at Ellisville of cancer of the stomach. At her death she
had resided in Illinois for 49 years. She is buried at Fairview (Fulton) Illinois.
Hall, Joshua Webster-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 21 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7 ½” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; born Young Hickory
(Fulton) Illinois. Transferred to 40th Infantry on 19 June 1865. Mustered out 24 July 1865. Born
6 May 1841 in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois.
Hall, Joshua Webster—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married
Sarah M. McClellan in Hillsdale (Mills) Iowa. Sarah died 6 July 1889. Joshua married widow
Malinda Jane Cory Gray on 23 September 1890. Her first husband, John Gray, died 1882.
Joshua Hall’s children: William J. born 16 August 1871; John R. born 3 March 1873; George B.
born 29 May 1877; Mina G. born 1 August 1879; and Lottie E. born 8 June 1885.
He was struck by a piece of rock thrown by the explosion of a shell at Kenesaw Mountain,
knocking him down and injuring his right side, breast, and third and fourth fingers of the right
hand.
Joshua Webster Hall died 8 November 1901 in Marysville (Marion) Iowa. Malinda Hall died 18
June 1918 in Knoxville, Iowa. Burial Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Mills County, Iowa.
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Joshua Webster Hall, photograph courtesy of Marge Light
Haney, Henry C.-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 19 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; light hair; hazel eyes; born Wellsburg (Brook) Virginia.
Mustered out 21 June 1865 as a corporal.
Haney, Henry C.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 2 July
1843 in Wellsburg, West Virginia. Married Sarah E. Walker in Louisa County, Iowa, on 21
September 1870. Their children: Charles M. born 30 May 1873; James E. born 16 August 1876;
Nora born 16 January 1883; and Ralph C. born 10 September 1894.
Near Jonesboro, George, in 1864 “a shell from the enemy battery, falling upon him, bruising the
flesh causing an abscess to form.” The shell fragment injured his left groin. A tumor developed.
The weight of the tumor drew the muscles away from the internal and external rings and caused
a rupture. The tumor weighed eight pounds and was 14 to 15 inches long. He had to carry it in a
bag. In 1907 it was removed.
He was a carpenter. A tattoo “H.C. Haney” was on his left forearm, possibly as identification in
case he was killed in the war.
Henry C. Haney died 5 April 1915 in Muscatine, Iowa. His address was 1210 Lincoln
Boulevard, Muscatine, Iowa. Sarah Haney died 26 January 1922.
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Harlan Brothers: 1860 US Census, Young Hickory, Fulton County, Illinois: Sons of David
Harlan of Ohio and Mary Harlan of Virginia, both 50 years old in 1860. The children in 1860:
Andrew (24); Cyrus (21); Milo (19); Plato (18); Napoleon (16); Louisa (14); Adelia (11); Mary
((9); Minerva (6); and Laura (8).
Harlan, Milo--Enlisted 9 August 1862, 22 years old, as a corporal in Co. B, 83rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; dark hair; blue eyes; born Clinton County, Ohio. Mustered
out 26 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. Died 5 November 1924.
Harlan, Milo—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 13 March
1840 in Harveysburg, Clinton County, Ohio. His mother was Mary A. Cowman Harlan. He was
unmarried and had no children. Suffered from rheumatism, heart disease, and gangrene of the
foot.
In 1915 he lived in London Mills (Fulton) Illinois, and was living in Young Hickory when he
died on 5 November 1924. Burial West Midway Cemetery, Young Hickory Township (Fulton)
Illinois.
Harlan, Napoleon B.—Died 31 July 1888. Burial at West Midway Cemetery, Young Hickory
Township (Fulton) Illinois.
Harlan, Plato—Died 8 November 1901. Burial at West Midway Cemetery, Young Hickory
Township (Fulton) Illinois.
Harshbarger, William Henry-- Enlisted 9 August 1862, 20 years old, as a private in Co. G, 83rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; dark hair; dark eyes; born Fulton County, Illinois.
Mustered out 26 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.
Harshbarger, William Henry—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Born 4 July 1842 in Fulton County, Illinois, to Samuel Harshbarger (who died in 1872) and
Cynthia Comb, both of Ohio.
William H. Harshbarger, who was in the stock business, married Viola Mae Clark on 19 June
1894 in Abingdon, Illinois. They divorced in 1900 and had no children. From 1865 until 1902
he lived in Abingdon, Illinois, moving to Los Angeles, California in 1902. In 1913 he lived at
the Soldiers Home in California.
In 1923 Dr. R. W. Hill described him as “a pretty strong robust man for his age, well-nourished
and ruddy complexioned. Just getting old and wearing out, that’s all.” However, in 1924 he
lived with his niece, Hazel Criger, in Muscatine County, Iowa. She said he needed attendance
for his frequent attacks of vertigo and falls.
William Henry Harshbarger died in Galesburg (Knox) Illinois on 28 May 1930 of a stroke at the
age of 87, a resident of Danville Soldiers Home. A nephew, Henry Hashbarger, lived in
Abingdon at the time.
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Heartley, John-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 30 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’5 ½” tall; black hair; grey eyes; born Fulton County, Illinois.
Mustered out 25 June 1865 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Heartley, John—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: In January 1863
while sitting on top of a railroad car traveling from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Tennessee,
got dust and cinders in his eyes, which caused inflammation. He nearly lost sight in the right eye
and injured the left eye. By 1881 he was almost totally blind.
“Thickening of cornea with inflammation, granulated lids. Inflammation passed away leaving
almost entire loss of vision in the right eye and much diminished vision in the left one. The
treatment was mild antiphlogistic and alternatives, with the use of mild astringents and blistering
of the temples, then has been no change for the better since 1867.”—C. W. McCluhan, M.D.
1877
John stated that since 1865 he resided in Illinois and Nebraska. In 1877 he lived in Avon
(Fulton) Illinois.
Heartley, William M.-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 22 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; black hair; hazel eyes; married; born Fulton
County, Illinois. Discharged 7 May 1863.
Heartley, William M.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Became ill
with pneumonia in January 1863 while guarding prisoners and was left in the hospital in Jackson,
Tennessee on 10 March 1863. He was discharged for disability on 7 May 1863 at LaGrange,
Tennessee. Lived in Troy Mills, Young Hickory (Fulton) Illinois, and died there sometime
before September 1869.
Henry, John-- Enlisted 22 August 1862, 18 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’8 ½” tall; dark hair; dark eyes; born Young Hickory (Fulton)
Illinois. Died 20 December 1863.
Hibbard, James E. G.-- Enlisted 14 August 1862, 23 years old, as a Sgt. in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9 ½” tall; brown hair; hazel eyes; married; born Athens
(Athens) Ohio. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky, reduced to ranks.
Hibbard, James E. G.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in
Ohio. Married Rebecca Markley, who died in Young Hickory on 13 February 1878. Married
Mary A. Spence in Fairview (Fulton) Illinois on 21 September 1879. Mary was born in
Washington County, Pennsylvania, on 7 April 1845.
James’ children: Eliza F. Burbridge of Middlegrove, Illinois, born 22 January 1862; John E. of
Randall, Illinois, born 5 June 1866; Mary D. Ault of Blyton, Illinois, born 26 July 1868; Amelia
C. Irons of Randall, Illinois, born 6 August 1871; and Dora C. of Randall, Illinois, born 22
January 1878.
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James E. G. Hibbard died in East Galesburg (Knox) Illinois, on 23 November 1907 at 7:15 p.m.
of hypostatic pneumonia. He was 72 years old. Mary Hibbard died 28 August 1929. Burial in
Fairview (Fulton) Illinois.
Hines, John H.-- Enlisted 4 May 1864, 18 years old, as a private in Co. D, 137th Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’4 ½” tall; dark hair; hazel eyes; born Canton (Fulton) Illinois.
Mustered out 24 September 1864 at Springfield, Illinois.
Hites, Thomas P.-- Enlisted 21 August 1862, 18 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born Holmes County, Ohio. Mustered
out 21 June 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.
Hummel, William—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 32 years old, as a corporal in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’ 11 ½” tall; brown hair; grey eyes; married; born
Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois. Promoted to Sgt. Absent, wounded. Died 11 September 1910.
Hummel, William—1860 US Census: Son of Thomas and Margaret Hummel of Ohio. Their
children: William (29) born in Illinois; Eliza (30); Thomas (9); Elizabeth (7); Samuel (5); Martha
(4); Margaret (9 months).
Hummel, William—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Wounded in
action at Resaca, Georgia, on 15 May 1864. Gunshot wound of the right thigh and knee resulting
in severe varicose veins in the right leg. “The limb is no better than an artificial limb.”
Married widow Phebe Morris Peterson on 8 May 1873 in Lebec (Cedar) Missouri. Her first
husband was Jacob Peterson, married 10 November 1844 in Switzerland County, Indiana. Jacob
Peterson died 11 September 1864 at Nashville, Tennessee of wounds.
William Hummel lived in South West City (McDonald) Missouri in 1872; 1875 in Albia
(Monroe) Iowa; 1877 in Waudena (Fayette) Iowa; 1902 through 1907 in Cherryvale
(Montgomery) Kansas. Phebe’s address was 513 East 2nd St., Cherryvale (Montgomery) Kansas
in 1912.
William Hummel died 11 September 1910.
Jackson, Ira—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 18 years old, as a corporal in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Promoted to Sgt. Description at enlistment: 5’ 7” tall; black hair; dark eyes; born Morehead
(Morgan) Virginia. Mustered out 14 July 1865. Died 12 July 1932 in Wichita, Kansas.
Jackson, Ira—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 11 November
1843 in Morehead (Morgan) Kentucky, the son of David Jackson of Kentucky.
Ira Jackson was a prisoner of war at Andersonville, Georgia, from the fall of 1864 until his
release in April 1865. At release he suffered from chronic diarrhea and rheumatism. “I came
home with him, lived in the same neighborhood till 1872 and he was very bad in prison with
diarrhea and what we call scurvy, which later is rheumatism.”—L. D. Huff, 1900
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After muster out, “the first year he did not work at all, he gained some strength and done about
one half days work . . . I lived close to him from the time he came home till 1874. We went west
together.”—John H. Hines, Ellisville, Illinois 1897
Married Cardelia Anna Palmer in Sunnydale, Kansas 24 October 1882. Their children: Millie
Kate Stephens born 22 September 1885, and living at RR#2 Wichita, Kansas in 1932; and Elba
Leon born 21 July 1883.
He operated a threshing machine with John Hereford for four years. Ira continued to suffer the
effects of his imprisonment: his legs were painful and would often give way, causing him to fall.
He was unable to climb stairs. The scurvy affected his legs, hips, knees, feet and ankles.
“General disability caused by long imprisonment.”—William Hummel, 1897
The family lived in Ellisville, Illinois from 1865 until 1874 when they moved to Sedgwick
County, Kansas. In 1914 and 1922 they listed their residence as Valley Center (Sedgwick)
Kansas.
In 1927 their address was 2118 Park Place, Wichita, Kansas, where Ira Jackson died 12 July
1932, of bronchitis and a fractured right hip. Burial at Kechi Cemetery, Park City (Sedgwick)
Kansas.
Ira Jackson, Photograph courtesy of Misty & Company www.findagrave.com
Jamison, Ezra E.—Enlisted in Co. B, 103rd Infantry as a private, 17 years old. Description at
enlistment: 5’ 11 ½” tall; light hair; gray eyes; born in Morgan County, Virginia. Died at
Memphis, Tennessee 19 June 1863.
Jamison, Ezra E.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Died of typhoid
fever at the Washington Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, on 19 June 1863.
Ezra was the only son of Sarah and Robert G. Jamison, married in Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania [possibly Unity or Pleasant Township] 17 January 1844. The couple moved to
Fulton County, Illinois in 1855. Their children younger than 16 in 1863: Birtha born 27 August
1857; and twins Sadie E. and Mattie A. born 7 November 1858.
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Robert G. Jamison was postmaster at Midway (Fulton) Illinois. They moved to Knox County,
Illinois in 1866 and bought an acre of timberland. He kept his post office as Midway until it was
renamed London Mills.
On 26 December 1887 they moved to Kingman, Kansas and bought 80 acres, worth less than
$500. Robert Jamison was 70 years old in 1889. “Robert G. Jamison is quite feeble and wholly
unable to work or procure support for himself and wife. They have no income from any source
whatever, except what little they can secure from the farm.”—Joseph Casper, 1889
Jones, Eseck R.—Enlisted 9 August 1862, 23 years old, as a private in Co. G, 83rd Infantry.
Promoted to Corporal. Description at enlistment: 6’1” tall; dark hair; dark eyes; born Crawford
County, Pennsylvania. Mustered out 26 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. Died East Akron,
Oklahoma, on 16 July 1930.
Kingsworth, John—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 32 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; fair hair; blue eyes; married; carpenter; born Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania. Discharged 9 March 1863.
Kingsworth, John—1860 Census—Mary, his wife, is 30 years old and was born in Pennsylvania.
There are no children.
Mantonya, Sylvester—Enlisted 13 August 1862, 20 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 6’ tall, red hair, blue eyes; born Licking County, Ohio.
Killed 27 June 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia. Brother of Amos Mantonya of Lee
Township (Fulton) Illinois.
Mantonya, Sylvester—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Son
of Lewis N. Mantonya of Calhoun (Henry) Missouri. His mother was unnamed in the file. Lewis
and his wife were married at St. Albans Township (Licking) Ohio on 7 February 1839. The
pension application listed a brother, James M., who was born 29 September1860, when asked for
children under the age of 16. Their mother died in Schuyler County, Illinois, on 19 April 1877.
Sylvester was killed in action on 27 June 1864 at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia. He was
unmarried.
Camp Peoria, October the 27th 1862: My dear father and mother I take my pen in hand to let you
know that we are all well at present time and hoping that these few lines will find you enjoying
the same good blessings. We have marching orders and we expect to leave on the 28 or 29 of
October 1862 for the cornal [colnel?] told us that we should prepare for ___ marching. Would
advise you not to rite to me any ore until rite to you and tell you where we are. We expect to go
to Carow [Cairo?]. Amossaid that when you rite to me said that he would like to now if you
received that money that he sent you. He sent five dollars. We went to preaching on Sunday
evening down to Peoria at the Methodist Church. I must come to a close immediately for we are
so bissy that I cant take time to sit any more so good by dear father and mother.
December the 22 1863 [punctuation and capitalization added where obvious]
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Dear father and mother—I take my pen in hand to let you know that I am well at present.
Hoping these few lines will find you well. I got your letters the other day and was glad to hear
from home again. I got six letters I have got to the regiment the other day they have been in a big
battle at the mountain [?] and the boys got crippled good many of them. Captain Walsh got
killed and Dickman, [Gomery?] and two or three other boys. Your letters aid you sent me some
stamps but I han’t got them yet—maybe I will get them yet. I would like to get them for I han’t
got any more. They would come in handy to me. I got a letter from Elisabeth on yesterday and
glad to get it. I will write to Testa [?] Mason and Warren. I wrote to them last week I hant got
no letter from him for a good while. Tell him to write to me and direct them to the regiment by
the way of cason [?] and I will get them. You was saying pap [?] was gone to Ohio. Tell me
how he got along. Tell Elisabeth Ann I would like to go to school well with her but now will haft
to fite for our ___ and when we get it safe we will come home again. I will go to spelling school
with her again. I will get my likeness taken and send it to you as soon as I can. I will get paid
off again now soon. It is misty cold here now. Write to me and direct them to the regiment by
the way of car and then I’ll get them. So will close my letter for the present. Rite soon.
Sylvester Mantonya—Please look over my misstakes for it is very cold here.
Small pox hospital lagrange tennsea October the 28 1863: Dear father and mother—I take my
pen in hand to let you know I am well at present. Hoping these few lines may find you well. I
received your kind [letter?] yesterday and was glad to hear from home again. It has been a good
while sence I heard from home. I sent you a paper last week you was saying that you thought
that warren wanted me to send him some money. If he is sick and wants some, let him have
some and without sickness he cant get any from me but if you want any take it and take some of
it and get Elisabeth Ann likeness taken and send it to me. The wether is cold hear but it look like
we was going to have [pretty/misty?] wether. How you was saying that Ransom ____ at
Memphis. I rotetohim and he never ancerd itand so he may go I wolde go too stpes to see him as
long as I has plenty of friends and I thout I half as many friends as I want. Everybody is a frind
to me. I hant a wanted anything with out I did get it with
Markley, John T.--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 23 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall; brown hair; grey eyes; married; born Young Hickory
(Fulton) Illinois. Died 12 January 1863 at LaGrange, Tennessee.
Markley, John T.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Died in the
hospital at LaGrange, Tennessee of erysipelas on 12 January 1863. Married Hannah H. on 2
March 1862. In 1863 she stated that she was 15 years old. Her widow’s pension claim was
rejected because she failed to provide requested information.
She married Jack Fink of Mackinaw (Tazewell) Illinois and died about 1874, leaving no
children.
Markley, Marion—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 18 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’ 11” tall; brown hair; black eyes; born Young Hickory (Fulton)
Illinois. Died 6 March 1863 at Jackson, Tennessee.
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Markley, Marion—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Son of Thomas
and Eveline nee Hummel, who were married in the winter of 1843. Thomas was a carpenter by
trade, and 72 years old in 1890. “Eveline Markley died 12 June 1850 in Wadena, Iowa, on the
Probert farm.”—Eden Hummel, 1891
When Marion died in 1863, the family owned a yoke of cattle and tools to work with and an
income of $100. The father received Marion’s bounty and back pay a few years after the war. In
1890 Marion’s father lived in Wadena (Fayette) Iowa.
Martin, Lewis (Ludwig)--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 23 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: black hair; blue eyes; born Germany. Mustered out 21 June
1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. Died 10 April 1910 in Deerfield, Illinois.
Martin, Lewis (Ludwig)—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in
Bietereshausen, Germany 13 September 1836, the son of Ludwig and Katharina nee Bamberger.
From church books at Winterbach, Germany:
Ludwig Martin, born 21 October 1799 son of Himrick Martin of Biedershausen. His wife
Maria Barbara, daughter of Himrick Schaefer.
Phillipp Jacob Bamberger son of Christian Bamberger of Biedershausen, who during the
revolution was shot and killed by a French man, was married to Maria B. Barbara Becker
(spelling unclear), daughter of shoemaker Adam Becker at Wiederhasuen on 23 February
1809.
Ludwig Martin changed his name to Lewis at 13 when they came to this country. “My
discharge shows I was only 23 years old at the time of discharge, when I was 29 years. I gained
this knowledge through my parents at the close of the war when I came home and showed them
my certificate of discharge, and they told me that instead of being 23 years old I was 29 years of
age . . . I was brought to this country by my parents when I was a boy and settled in New York
and later moved to Illinois.”—Lewis Martin, 1906
Married Catharine Mahr in Canton (Fulton) Illinois in August 1866. She was born 24
March 1844. Their children: Charley, Lewis, Anna, and George.
Lewis Martin died in Deerfield (Fulton) Illinois on 10 April 1913. Catharine Martin died
29 February 1920 in Ellisville (Fulton) Illinois.
McClerg, John--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 20 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’10” tall; brown hair/ black eyes; married; born Fleming County,
Kentucky. Deserted 13 April 1863.
McClerg, William--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 30 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’11” tall; brown hair; grey eyes; married; born Fleming County,
Kentucky. Paroled prisoner of war. Mustered out 30 May 1865.
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McClerg, William—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 10 June
1833 in Poplar Plains, Kentucky. Possibly married June Warren and divorced in Owensboro,
Kentucky. Married Jane Lyons who died in 1874. Married Sarah Waltman Randall.
At Reseca, Georgia, he became deaf in the left ear from the concussion of a shell which
destroyed the ear’s tympanic membrane. Measles led to lung disease, and he had rheumatism
from exposure.
Since 1865 he lived in Owensboro, Kentucky for 25 years; Clayton, Ohio since 1890. William
McClerg died 16 September 1913 in Clayton (Montgomery) Ohio.
McDonald, John H.—Drafted 10 November 1864 into Co. I, 42nd Infantry. Mustered out 20
October 1865.
Mosier, Henry P.—Enlisted 10 August 1861, 34 years old, as a bugler in Co. D, 7th Cavalry.
Description at enlistment: 5; 11 ½” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born Sweden. Mustered out 15
October 1864. Died 1908 in London Mills, Illinois.
Norville, Elisha O.— Enlisted 14 August 1862, 27 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; black hair; black eyes; married; born Edgewood
(Wayne) North Carolina. Promoted to Sgt. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.
Norville, Elisha O.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 12
August 1840 in Greenburg (Westmoreland) Pennsylvania. Married Lucy Mitchell in Young
Hickory (Fulton) Illinois on 5 August 1858. Their daughter was Levena Eldora, born 28 October
1878 and died 4 December 1889.
He became sick on the march from the rear of Vicksburg to Jackson, Mississippi and was unfit
for duty for five to six weeks due to fever and chronic diarrhea. His pension was based on that
illness and because he was deaf in his right ear.
In 1890 the family lived in Andalusia (Rock Island) Illinois, and in Roseville (Warren) Illinois in
1893. Elisha O. Norville died 30 December 1893 of heart disease in Dallas City (Hancock)
Illinois. Lucy Norville died 24 March 1922.
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Elisha and Lucy Norville, photograph courtesy of Resa Billips George
Overman, Oscar F.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 21 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall, light hair; blue eyes; born Young Hickory (Fulton)
Illinois. Promoted to Corporal. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. Died 3
January 1909.
Overman, Oscar F.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married
Charity R. Porter in Albia, Iowa on 12 April 1866. Their children: Thomas A. born 16 February
1873 and an agent of the Continental Insurance Company in Malvern, Kansas, in 1912; Charles
P. born 5 March 1868; Fred W. born 9 May 1870; Wella May born 21 March 1875; Sadie L.
born 8 February 1878; and Harry C. born 28 August 1881.
He was shot in the right hand in November 1864 at Macon, Georgia, on the skirmish line, losing
his middle finger. In 1862 he had a “disease of the chest” in Peoria, Illinois, mumps in the spring
of 1863, and suffered chronic diarrhea in 1865 in Washington, DC.
In 1879 he lived in Lyndon (Osage) Kansas, and in 1909 was in Melvern (Osage) Kansas, where
he died on 3 January 1909. Charity Overman died 29 January 1912 of pneumonia. Burial at
Melvern Cemetery, Melvern (Osage) Kansas.
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Oscar F. Overman, photograph courtesy Thomas and Darlene
Palmer, Archibald D.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 18 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; brown hair; grey eyes; born Indiana County,
Pennsylvania. Killed 22 November 1864 at Griswold, Georgia.
Palmer, Archibald D.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Died in
action at Griswold, Georgia, of a gunshot wound of the heart on 22 November 1864. He was the
son of David G. Palmer. Archibald’s parents married in Blairsville, Pennsylvania on 10 June
1841. His mother died in Fulton County, Illinois, on 26 January 1869.
Archibald Palmer’s siblings (younger than 16 in 1864): Peter E. born 25 August 1849; Anson L.
born 3 May 1851; Margaret C. born 10 April 1853; Mary M. born 1 December 1854; and
Cordelia A. born 15 December 1856. The file lists another daughter, Miss Jamie Palmer, of
Sunnydale, Kansas, in 1887.
Archibald’s father, David Palmer, was 68 years old in 1881 and died May 1883 in Pleasanton,
Kansas.
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Parker, Allen S.—Enlisted 14 August 1862, 20 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall, light hair; grey eyes; born Chestnut (Knox) Illinois. Died 5
October 1863 at Memphis, Tennessee of chronic diarrhea.
Phillippi, Francis--Enlisted 9 August 1862, 24 years old, as a private in Co. G, 83rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’6 1/2” tall, dark hair; grey eyes; born Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania. Killed in action 29 April 1865 at Allensville, Kentucky.
Phillippi, Francis—1860 US Census, Young Hickory, Fulton County, Illinois: He was a farm
laborer or Oliver Norval’s [Norville?] farm—22 years old.
Pratt, Thomas--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 22 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall, light hair; black eyes; born Tazewell County, Virginia.
Deserted 13 April 1863.
Prosser, Joseph--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 36 years old, as a corporal in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’ 11 ½” tall; dark hair. Grey eyes; married; born in Richland County,
Ohio. Discharged 2 May 1863.
Prosser, Joseph—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 7 October
1824 in Richland County, Ohio, to Joseph Prosser and Eliza Kinner, both originally of Ohio.
Married Betsey Ealender Norval in Fairview (Fulton) Illinois on March 2, 1845. Their children:
Katy Thurman born 8 October 1848; Betty Clawson born 5 May 1850; and Manerva Booton
born 13 July 1862.
Joseph Prosser was diagnosed with granular conjunctivitis and lameness. Whether these
infirmities began before or after enlistment was a question for the Pension Bureau’s special
examiner. Several neighbors remember Joseph complaining of health issues before his
enlistment. “I remember that in the fall of 1860 at the Methodist church I saw him hobbling to
his wagon and he said his knee has slipped out of place.”—James Tigard, 1888
In 1888 Joseph Prosser stated to the examiner that “prior to enlistment never had sore eyes, that
about April 1862 was taken sick with measles and before he knew what his sickness was, he was
caught out in a rain storm and took a violent cold, that he was taken to a hospital at Jackson,
Tenn., from which he was afterward discharged from the army at LaGrange, Tenn. for general
disability. The measles settled in his eyes and he is now nearly wholly blind in both eyes.”
Over the years the family lived in Tyner (Smith) Kansas in 1897; Johnson County, Nebraska in
1892; Franklin County, Nebraska in 1896; and Reamsville (Smith) Kansas in 1908. Joseph
Prosser died 14 February 1906 at the age of 81 of dropsy, though he also suffered from
consumption. He is buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery (Smith) Kansas. His wife, Betsey, died on
6 July 1911 in Yuma (Yuma) Colorado.
Retter, Charles—Enlisted 23 February 1865, 31 years old, as a corporal in Co. C, 14th Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’ 5 ¾” tall; light hair; blue eyes; wagon maker; born Prussia.
Mustered out 8 August 1865.
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Rice, Jesse—Enlisted 6 August 1862, 24 year old, as a private in Co. G, 83rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’11” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born Fountain County, Indiana.
Mustered out 26 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. Died 26 April 1914 in Blackfoot (Bingham)
Idaho.
Rice, Jesse—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 1834 or 1838 in
Fountain, Indiana. “I never knew my age. Why, because father and mother died when I was a
little boy and no one ever told me how old I was. I shifted around among my brothers-in-law
and sisters-in-law for 12 or more months and then left the country returning only a few times on
short visits. The Bible containing the family record was destroyed by fire. It burnt with my
brother’s house. When I enlisted I did not know my age. I think I told somebody I was 24 years
old . . . There is no one on this earth that can give the month and day of my birth.”—1908
A letter dated April 8, 1908 addressed to Uncle Jesse from Ida McBride:
I have gone and got Uncle Henry Dices word in regard to your age and sent it to you first
as he wrote it. And I remember what your Sister Charlotte Dice said about your age. She
said your two, three or four years younger than she was. Aunt Charlotte Dice was born
Dec 10 1829. So you must have been born between 1830 and 1833. We spoke to the
younger children and they say Sarah Jane’s mind is not strong enough to remember
anything about it. We are well as usual. It is raining and cold today. You asked Lizzie
to do the favor for you, but Uncle she could not get around to do so. I will in her place
and we are glad to do all we can for you and hope you will get your pension raised. From
Ida McBride, Veedersburg, Indiana.
He was unmarried and had no children. “When I have a spare dollar I send it to a lame niece that
walks with two crutches. She is a poor girl.”--1913
“While unloading goods from a Steam Boat at Ft. Henry, Tennessee, slipped and fell with a load,
hurting my left hip near where it connects with the back.” This ailment was lifelong.
Prospecting in Missouri, Utah, Nevada and Idaho for several years; settled in Idaho permanently
in 1894. In 1914 he lived at RR#3 Blackfoot (Bingham) Idaho, where he died 26 April 1914.
Rist, Jacob W.--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 23 years old, as a corporal in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’9 1/2” tall, sandy hair; hazel eyes; married; born Fairview (Fulton)
Illinois. Deserted 9 March 1863.
Rist, Jacob W.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married Harriet E.
Cameron/Camron in Young Hickory (Fulton) Illinois on 2 May 1861. Their children less than 16
years of age and living in 1888: Mary A. born 19 March 1862; Walter V. born 23 June 1866; and
William H. born 22 September 1868. He did not receive a pension.
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Roberts, Joseph T.--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 18 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall, brown hair; grey eyes; born Newcastle (Henry) Kentucky.
Discharged 10 March 1864. Died 7 November 1927 in Ponce de Leon, Mississippi.
Roberts, Joseph T.—1860 Census, Young Hickory, Fulton County, Illinois: Son of Thomas
Roberts (50) and Moselle (45), both born in Kentucky. Their children: Rebecca (24), Joseph
(16), Mary (12), and Moses (6).
Roberts, Joseph T.--Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 9
September 1842 in Kentucky, 40 miles northwest of Louisville, to Thomas and Mayella
Roberts. His sister, Rebecca McGrew, lived in Seward, Nebraska in 1904. His brother, Marion,
lived in Afton, Iowa.
Married Catharine Alms, daughter of Andrew Alms. She was born 26 April 1848 and died 1
May 1880 in Carthage, Missouri. He then married the widow Mary Anne Hanes Redman on 30
September 1883 in Forsyth, Missouri. She died 13 May 1896.
His children with Catharine: Rebecca M. born 1 October 1868; Andrew M. born 11 August
1869; Mary A. born 9 January 1874; Cirus S. born 17 May 1876; and Clarence F. born 16
January 1880. His children with Mary Anne: Grover M. born 27 October 1884; Ella M. born 5
December 1887; Julius C. born 10 January 1889; and Elison born 26 June 1892.
In the winter of 1862 in Tennessee he had measles and was in the hospital for three months.
After his return to the regiment he suffered chills and fever, and chronic diarrhea at Huntsville,
Alabama in 1864.
After muster out he lived in Illinois until 1869 when he went to Bates County, Missouri. In 1882
he went to Walnut Shade, Missouri and then to Stone County, Missouri. In 1919 he was in
Ponce De Leon (Stone) Missouri.
Joseph T. Roberts died 7 November 1929. Burial at Ponce De Leon Cemetery in Stone County,
Missouri.
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Joseph T. Roberts, photograph courtesy of c.Mutt.a at findagrave.com
Romine, Samuel—Enlisted 16 August 1861, 17 years old, as a private in Co. A, 47th Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born Fulton County, Illinois. Mustered
out 11 October 1864.
Romine, Samuel—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: “I was kneeling
down on one knee trepanning the ball down, the main line had stopped, the shell bursted on the
right side of me, the shell struck a tree. [Doesn’t know if he was hit by a piece of the shell or a
piece of the tree.] I fell. I got up myself and crawled off under the shelter of the hill behind the
stump. I did not examine my arm until that night when we got back to camp about three miles
from Vicksburg. [The exam] revealed a very sore place on the shoulder. It was something more
or less than a bruise, the shoulder had turned blue, was no hole or nothing on the shoulder or no
blood had flowed. The bruise was right at the joint near the shoulder blade. [Asked when he saw
the regiment’s surgeon] the doctor was busy so I didn’t apply for medical help for three days.
He looked at it and said I got a scratch. He gave me some medicine and told me to bathe it.
Bruise took six months to disappear. I could not use my arm, it seemed useless like, that was the
only way it affected me. I was excused from duty by the doctor, sent home as I was unfit for
duty, examined by a board of doctors, said the spine of my back was affected from effects of
injury. Home on furlough for 90 days. My spine pained me and I could not get up and down
easily. I got back October 1863 and my company was at Memphis, Tenn and they put me on
light duty until I was discharged.”
Years passed with visits to local doctors. “I went to Dr. Andrews in Chicago, Ill [in 1879]. He
said I had a dead bone in my shoulder and cut open the shoulder and took some of the bone out.”
He removed 3 inches of the arm bone with the joint and some of the collarbone” leaving Samuel
Romine with a “flesh joint.” This surgery destroyed the use of his arm. “Can’t lift it, muscles of
the arm have shrunken and wrist is stiff. I can bend the elbow a little but not enough to be
useful.” Disease of the bone resulted in pus draining for several years. His arm swings by his
side and is useless. Romine would pull his useless arm across his body, securing it to his waist
by the thumb of that hand.
The Special Examiner argued that he was not entirely disabled as he could drive a team and feed
himself with one hand. Samuel Romine was a farmer near London Mills (Fulton) Illinois until
1906 when he moved to Bennington (Ottawa) Kansas.
Samuel Romine was “struck by lightning about three months ago and was burned all over and his
skin is as red as freshly burned. He had a very close call and a remarkable recovery.”--H. A.
Kingsley, Special Examiner, October 4, 1909
One son is mentioned in the file—Claud Romine.
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Samuel Romine, Bennington Cemetery, Ottawa County, Kansas
Photograph courtesy of Judy Mayfield
Seward, Jasper--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 22 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’8 ½” tall, brown hair; black eyes; married; born Pennsylvania.
Deserted 18 March 1863.
Shoemaker, Abraham or Lewis A. --Enlisted 14 August 1862, 32 years old, as a private in Co.
B, 103rd Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7” tall, light hair; blue eyes; born Loraine, Ohio.
Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.
Shoemaker, Abraham or Lewis—Civil War Pension File, National Archives: Apparently his
legal name was Abraham, but he preferred to be called Lewis A. His pension file indicated that
he was born in Virginia. Married Martha Jane Kline on 10 October 1867 under the name of
Abraham Shoemaker. One child is mentioned in the file: Eliza Ellen born 26 July 1869 and died
in Bernadotte (Fulton) Illinois on 3 February 1892, unmarried.
Abraham Shoemaker died 26 November 1869 of consumption. Martha Kline Shoemaker
married William Deford in Fulton County, Illinois, on 10 November 1872.
Shoup, Solomon J.—Enlisted 4 February 1865, 18 years old, as a private in Co. K, 151st
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; dark hair; grey eyes; born Fulton County, Illinois.
Mustered out 24 January 1866 at Columbus, Georgia.
Shoup, Solomon J.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 22
March 1848 in Illinois to Abraham Shoup of Pennsylvania and Sarah Crittenden of Illinois.
Married Isabelle Langford in Alexandria, Missouri, on 25 June 1873. Their children: Addie O.
born 17 November 1874; Stephen Archa born 21 October 1876; and Grace Belle born 17 May
1886.
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Solomon had measles while in the army and lost most of his hearing in his right ear. He died in
his home in Prairie Township (Hancock) Illinois of cirrhosis of the liver on 11 April 1911.
Isabelle Shoup died 9 April 1922. They are buried at Moss Ridge Cemetery, Carthage, Illinois.
Shreves, Lemuel W.—Drafted 4 October 1864, 21 years old, as a private in Co. D, 36th Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’ 8 ½” tall; brown hair; blue eyes; born Pennsylvania. Died of
typhoid on 13 January 1865 at Cairo, Illinois.
Shreves, Lemuel W.—1860 U.S. Census, Young Hickory, Fulton County, Illinois: Son of
Samuel (63) born in Virginia and Abigale (53) born in Pennsylvania. One of five children.
Smith, Joseph J.--Enlisted 22 August 1862, 40 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall, dark hair; grey eyes; born Columbia (Baxter) Pennsylvania.
Died of chronic diarrhea on 19 December 1862 at Memphis, Tennessee.
Smith, Joseph J.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: The son
of Elizabeth and John Smith of Pennsylvania, Joseph Smith was unmarried and had no children
at the time of his death. John Smith had died in July 1851. Joseph was the only remaining son,
as his brother died young.
Joseph’s mother, Elizabeth Smith, married Gabriel Hoffmeister. Joseph was hired by his uncle,
John Lovelit, to work on his farm in Fulton County, Illinois, for $100 a year and board. Joseph
contributed money for his mother’s support from these earnings and those earned as a soldier.
Gabriel Hoffmeister had been bedridden for several years before his death in September 1866 at
the age of 74.
Smith, William L.—Enlisted 4 May 1864, 16 years old, as a private in Co. D, 137th Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born in New York. Mustered out 24
September 1864.
Smith, William L.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: William
Smith was a wagon maker. He married Mary Ellen Lamb, was the daughter of Isaac and Jane
Lamb, on 17 November 1870 near Fairview, Illinois. Mary Ellen was born 1 January 1854 in
Fulton County, Illinois. Her brother was William Henry Harrison Lamb who served in Co. C,
17th Illinois Infantry.
Their children: Florence L. born 6 November 1871 and who was Mrs. Florence LaFollette in
Kirkwood, Illinois in 1931; Emily born 27 January 1873; Grace G. born 19 February 1876;
William L. born 11 February 1878; Casper D. born 5 January 1880; Albert R. born 8 September
1884; and Anna E. born 12 February 1891 with married name of Schwartz in 1932.
This is a transcription of Isaac Lamb’s family record from their bible:
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William L. Smith claimed disability from varicose veins, liver disease, and chronic diarrhea and
died 3 February 1907 from a perforation of the colon after an attack of colitis. Mary Ellen Smith
died 21 August 1931 in London Mills (Fulton) Illinois of heart disease.
Stobaugh, James--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 28 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall, red hair; blue eyes; married; miner; born Will (Tazewell)
Virginia. Deserted 18 August 1864.
Stobaugh, James—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: In 1865 he was
a miner living in Fairview (Fulton) Illinois. He applied for a pension, but the request was denied
based on his desertion.
Swartz, Christopher M.--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 26 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’4” tall, dark hair; blue eyes; born Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania. Discharged for wounds 21 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.
Swartz, Christopher M.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
As Christopher had no children and was single at the time of his death, his mother, Margaret,
applied for his pension. Christopher was the son of Margaret and Henry Swartz of
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Henry Swartz died there 28 June 1854.
Christopher was wounded at the battle of Mission Ridge, Georgia, on 25 November 1863 and
died at Midway (Fulton) Illinois on 19 October 1865. “The ball entered his [right] shoulder on
the front about 4 inches below the shoulder joint and passing through his shoulder and came out
near his back bone.”—Andrew Smith, 1866. When a doctor saw him in 1865, he was” suffering
from water in the chest and in pericardium, leading to general dropsy.”
In 1861 his mother moved to Illinois to live with him on the farm he owned. Jacob Beamer
worked his farm while he was in the service and retained one third of the proceeds with two
thirds going to Margaret.
Swartz, Henry R.--Enlisted 14 August 1862, 19 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall, dark hair; hazel eyes; born Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. Died 16 September 1921 at
Soldiers Home in Illinois.
Swartz, Henry R.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 20
November 1842 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. In 1855 his mother and family went to
London Mills (Fulton) Illinois. Henry frequently worked for Jacob Fisher on his farm.
Married Mary Harlan in Knox County, Illinois on 26 March 1868 and divorced March 1887.
Mary had been born on a farm in Fulton County on 6 February 1851. “[Mary] . . . got custody of
two youngest and the three oldest taking their choice. All remained with me. With the help of
my two oldest daughters I supported and raised the family and had been supporting him too. He
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died at the Quincy Illinois Soldiers Home, September 16, 1921. I was again married to Mr. John
Saxon in 1892, who died in 1904.”—Mary H. Saxon, 257 Lake Street, Galesburg, Illinois, 1921
Henry and Mary’s children: Eva born 20 November 1869; Albertha L. E. born 30 December
1871; Orlan born 8 January 1873; Orean L. born 20 February 1876; and Mamie M. born 26 July
1880.
Henry Swartz lived in Fulton County, Illinois, except between 1872 and 1881 when he lived in
Nebraska.
From the Swartz family Bible:
Henry born September 1801
Margaret Gardner born January 1806
Children:
W.G. born 2 October 1825
Caroline born 12 June 1827
Elizabeth born 15 May 1829
Catherine born 5 September 1831
Mary born 2 October 1833
Lucy A. born 10 March 1835
J. W. born 3 August 1837
Christopher born 26 July 1840
Henry born 20 November 1842
A.C. born 5 January 1846
Henry R. Swartz died 16 September 1921 in Quincy, Illinois.
Swartz, John Weston—Enlisted 23 September 1864, 24 years old, in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’8” tall; light hair; blue eyes; born Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania. Mustered out 21 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.
Swartz, John Weston—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married
Della B. Swain in Galesburg, Illinois on 8 November 1866. Their son, Frank C. Swartz, was
born in July 1868.
At Marietta, Georgia, John Swartz suffered a “violent pain in back and soon caused paralysis of
the legs.” Unfortunately, his back pain tormented him for the rest of his life. Unable to farm, he
was able to secure employment that was easier on his back. In 1866 he purchased an interest in a
sawmill in Fulton County but quickly sold his interest. In 1868 he went to Galesburg to work in a
railroad machine shop. When that proved too difficult, he moved to Colchester, Illinois, where he
was in charge of an engine at a water tank. In 1870 his back was worse, and he went to Prairie
City, Illinois, to supervise a section of hands working on the railroad. Unable to work at that, he
became a book salesman in May 1871 and eventually sold sewing machines. In 1880 he lived in
Bushnell (McDonough) Illinois, 1887 in Rogers (Benton) Arkansas, and 1908 in Gallup
(McKinley) New Mexico.
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John Weston Swartz died in Gallup, New Mexico, on 14 January 1908. He had a 6-point star
tattoo on his forearm. Della Swartz died 5 February 1933.
Sweeney, Gershune or Gershum—Enlisted 13 August 1862, 22 years old, as a private in Co.
D, 103rd Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; black hair; black eyes; born Green
County, Illinois. Died of disease on 12 April 1864 at Scottsboro, Alabama.
Sweeney, Gersham—1860 US Census, Young Hickory, Fulton County, Illinois: Son of Garret
Sweeney, a 50 year old farm laborer born in New Jersey and Hannah Sweeney, (57).
Sweeney, Gershum—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Died in
Scottsboro, Alabama of diarrhea and/or typhoid on 12 April 1864. Son of Garret Sweeney and
Hannah Teatsworth married 12 September 1828 in Post Town (Somerset) New Jersey. Their
children: Cornelia Ann, Martha, and Gershum.
C. M. Cadwallader in 1870: “. . . an old man and woman, very old and they are living in a very
old decrepit log house and they say since their son died in the army they have been very
destitute.” Gershum was their only means of support, sending money to them while in the army.
Thurman, John M.—Enlisted 10 August 1862, 20 years old, as a private in Co. G, 83rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’5” tall; dark hair; grey eyes; born Knox County, Illinois. Mustered
out 26 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.
Thurman, John M.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in
Maquon (Knox) Illinois. Married Mary A. Taylor in Knox County, Illinois, on 24 August 1865.
Their children: Cora born 31 January 1874; William C. born 24 January 1877; Flora B. born 2
November 1880; and George A. born 2 February 1884. John M. Thurman died in Maquon
(Knox) Illinois on 7 July 1905.
Thurman, Stephen H.—Enlisted 16 August 1861, 33 years old, as a private in Co. A, 47th
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’9” tall; light hair; blue eyes; married; born Canton (Fulton)
Illinois. Disability discharge 15 December 1862.
Thurman, Stephen H.—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born in
Canton, Illinois on 26 February 1820. Married Margaret Snodgrass in Burlington, Iowa on 27
September 1851. Their children: Levi H. born 24 August 1854; Sarah born 22 March 1857 and
the wife of J. C. Cook of Reno County, Kansas in 1920; Edward J. born 27 March 1860; Charles
G. born 16 July 1867; Joseph S. born 8 February 1870; and Alice born 1865 and died 1889. He
stated that they had nine children, three of whom died in infancy. He also commented that four
of his grandsons were soldiers in World War I.
During the Civil War, he and others were detailed to get timber for fortifications. A tree limb
fell on his back, and he suffered for the rest of his life with back pain. He received a disability
discharge for chronic spinal meningitis. Several doctors examined him and found he suffered
from lateral curvature of the spine.
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The family lived in Avon after he was mustered out of service for 24 years. In 1884 they moved
to Kansas. In 1915 John Thurman lived in Kildare, Oklahoma. In 1920 his address was 204
Bonebreak Street, Hutchinson, Kansas. Margaret Thurman died before 1915. Stephen H.
Thurman died 24 July 1923.
The Thurman Family, photograph courtesy of Elizabeth at findagrave.com
Volmar/Fullmer, Daniel--Enlisted 13 August 1862, 25 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’7 1/2” tall, black hair; black eyes; married; born Germany.
Mustered out as corporal on 21 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.
Volmar/Fullmer, Daniel—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: “The
correct name was Volmar, it being a German name and Fullmer in English.”—Abaline Volmar.
Daniel Volmar was born in Germany in 1840. Married Abbelina on 19 January 1860 in Fulton
County, Illinois. Their children: John William, born 29 October 1860 and married by 1883;
Daniel W. born 4 May 1863; Mary Elizabeth born 3 May 1866; Abby A. born 19 July 1869; and
Jacob born 15 August 1871.
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“Griswoldville, Georgia, about 23 November 1864 he was severely injured in the lumbar region
of the spine by the concussion of a bursting shell. He was never afterward able to march but
little on foot. Rode on mule or in the ambulance.”—Richard Morris, M.D., 1875
Through his life he fell frequently, had no control of his legs, needed support to walk, and barely
could drive a team. He was seen to fall off the seat of the wagon he was driving. Daniel was
kicked in the abdomen by a horse on 6 February 1872 and died of peritonitis on 2 March 1872.
His wife, Abaline or Abbelina, died 7 March 1886. Burial Coal Creek Lutheran Cemetery
(Fulton) Illinois.
Daniel Volmar, Coal Creek Lutheran Cemetery, photograph courtesy Janine Crandell,
www.illinoisancestors.org
Wheeler, Joseph Henry—Enlisted 22 August 1862, 19 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5’6” tall; black hair; blue eyes; born Young Hickory
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(Fulton) Illinois. Mustered out corporal 21 June 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. Died 20 October
1925 in Avon, Illinois.
Wheeler, Joseph Henry—1860 US Census, Young Hickory (Fulton) Illinois: Son of James and
Sarah Wheeler, the oldest of 8 children. James is a wagon maker.
Wheeler, Joseph Henry—Civil War Pension File, National Archives, Washington, DC: Born 11
September 1843 in Ellisville/Deerfield Township, Fulton County, Illinois to James Wheeler of
Ohio and Sarah Kline of Ellisville (Fulton) Illinois. Married Elizabeth Silemnia Laney in
McDonough County, Illinois, on 5 April 1866. Elizabeth was the daughter of Levi Laney, born
in Park County, Indiana, and Mary Davis of Bushnell, Illinois. Elizabeth was born in Park
County, Indiana.
Their children: Sharlet L. born in Iowa on 24 May 1867 and died by 1915; Jennie May born 3
September 1873; William Edward born 7 January 1881 and living in Avon (Fulton) Illinois in
1936; Ida born 13 December 1890. Their grandchildren were listed in the file as of 1936: Lois
Campbell of Bushnell, Illinois; Clayton and George Hobbs, of Bushnell; and Josephine Evans of
Peoria, Illinois.
Joseph Wheeler was thrown from a rearing horse in 1869 and had a hernia as a result. He lived
in Fulton County, Illinois, continuously, except in 1868 and 1869 when he lived in Mahaska
County, Iowa. Joseph Henry Wheeler died 20 October 1925 in Lee Township (Fulton) Illinois of
acute dilatation of the heart following dropsy. He was 82 years old. Elizabeth died 1 January
1936, 87 years old, under the care of her daughter, Ida Steach, of Avon, Illinois.
Zurby, William--Enlisted 22 August 1862, 46 years old, as a private in Co. B, 103rd Infantry.
Description at enlistment: 5’9 1/4” tall, black hair; blue eyes; born Hilltown (Bucks)
Pennsylvania. Killed in the line of duty at Mission Ridge, Tennessee on 25 November 1863.
Zurby, William—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC: Married
the widow Serena Mitchell on 5 January 1860 in Hancock County, Illinois. At her death on 27
September 1899 she left one son by her first husband, Thomas Mitchell. Her son was Daniel
Mitchell born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on 27 June 1851.
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