William Brown Mekemson

MEKEMSON, THOMPSON

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/10/2004 at 09:36:07

W. B. Mekemson, Jackson twp., farmer, Sec. 23; P.O. Winterset; born in Henderson county, Illinois, in 1842, lived there until the autumn of 1867, then removed to Madison county, Iowa; married in Henderson county, Illinois, December 28, 1865, to Jenette Thomson, a native of Scotland; by this union they have six children: Elizabeth E., Hattie M., Anna B., Jessie S., Jenette and Maggie J.; owns 100 acres of land; Mr. Mekemson enlisted in the Eighty-fourth Illinois volunteer infantry, company G, July 28, 1862, being but twenty years of age; he was transferred in May, 1863, to Twenty-third veterans, company B; was at the battle of Stone River; was with General Hobson at the capture of Sioux Mundy, Kentucky, and was engaged in hunting guerrillas the last two years; was discharged at Clinton, Iowa, July 25, 1865; before he was transferred, he was severely injured, dislocating his hip, and upon recovery was made bugler to General Hobson.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 631