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John
M. Jarvis, 7th Iowa Infantry Co. C, Residence Hopewell, enlisted Jan
28, 1862 died 29 March 1862 at Pittsburg Landing, buried at Shiloh
National Cemetery.
Submitted by: Steve Hanken | 1863
- Isaac G. Shoemake - Isaac was born in Henry County, Indiana in 1839,
but by 1843, the family was living in Mahaska County, Iowa. He
volunteered with the Union Army, Company H, 8th Regiment of the Iowa
Infantry and served from August 21, 1861 until he was mustered out on
April 20, 1866 in Selma, Alabama. He participated in all battles
this regiment was in including the Battle of Shiloh, Vicksburg, and
others. He was captured with others of his regiment at Shiloh and
became a POW on April 6, 1862, confined at Macon, Georgia, and
exchanged by the Confederacy to the Union forces on November 10,
1862. During a brief furlough, he married Ruth Ann Williams on
March 30, 1864.
Submitted by Jeanie Belding | 1865
circa - Charles and Ruth Williams - Charles Williams was born in Ross
County, Ohio in 1806. About 1854 he was living in Mahaska County,
Iowa. At the age of 56 years old, on September 5, 1862, he enlisted
with the 37th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Company E, universally called
the Gray Beard Regiment. He was mustered out on April 28, 1863 at
St. Louis, Missouri as a disability discharge. (Note: George
Shoemake married Charles' daughter). Charles had 3 sons that also
served in the Civil War - George W. Williams, John W. Williams, and
Francis M. Williams.
Submitted by Jeanie Belding |
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circa - George W Williams - George W. Williams enlisted on July 7, 1862
and served with the 18th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Company K. He
died of disease in Springfield, Missouri on March 13, 1863 and is
buried in the Springfield National Cemetery in Springfield, Missouri.
Submitted by Jeanie Belding | 1910
circa - Francis M Williams - Francis M. Williams enlisted June 1, 1861,
serving with the 3rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Company H. He
re-enlisted and re-mustered several times, also serving with the Third
Veteran Infantry, Company C, and the Second and Third Infantry
Consolidated, Company I. His rank in was a private and his rank
out was Seventh Corporal. His final muster out was July 12, 1865
at Louisville, Kentucky.
Submitted by Jeanie Belding | 1894
circa - Nicholas Beal family - Nicholas Beal was born in Guernsey
County, Ohio in 1837, but was living in Mahaska County, Iowa by the
time he enlisted on February 29, 1864. He served with the 33rd
Iowa Infantry, Company E, under Captain Prouty. He was in an
engagement at Jenkins Ferry (Arkansas) on the Saline river when Steel
was making a retreat to Little Rock, and was also at the battle of
Spanish Fort (Alabama) across the bay from Mobile, the seige of that
place lasting for thirteen days and nights. He mustered out at
Houston, Texas on August 15, 1865.
The photo is his family as
follows: front: Virginia (Totten) Beal (his wife), Nicholas
Beal; back: Elma Beal Burden (daughter), Louis Burden
(son-in-law), Emma Beal (daughter).
Submitted by Jeanie Belding |  | | 1910
4th Squad Company F - This photo was a postcard dated July 22, 1910,
sent to Luella Fisher of New Sharon, Iowa, who was about 10 years old
at the time. It was sent to her by Ray Minard, who is the 2nd
from the left in the photo (I can see a pencil x underneath him, even
though it doesn't show well in the photo scan).
In
the summer of 1910, the National Guard (or what was to become the
National Guard) held summer training at Camp Logan in Iowa City, Iowa
from July 8th - 23rd. In an on-line book I found, it states that
Co. F, 54th Infantry was based out of Oskaloosa, Mahaska County.
Further
research revealed that in 1910 Ray lived in Spring Creek Twnshp,
Mahaska Co. with his parents. He was 25 yrs old and census stated
he was a labourer - working out (meaning he didn't work on his dad's
farm, I think).
In
1910, the Albert Fisher family are living in Prairie Twnshp, Mahaska
County, and their neighbor 2 homes away is Jay S. Minard (Jay is
dwelling 9 and Albert is dwelling 11 on the census). Jay happens
to be Ray E. Minard's brother. I also found a newspaper social
snippet that mentioned Ray visiting his brother Jay in New Sharon.
I
am guessing the brother living near the Fisher family is the connection
and how Ray Minard came to know and write the postcard to Luella (who
had 2 sisters, which explains the greeting of "Hello Girls" on the
postcard).
The
pencil writing on the postcard is faded and difficult to read, but
below is what I was able to decipher. [?] stands for words that
were unreadable:
July 22, 1910
Hello
Girls I am well and hope you are all the same. I am having a fine
time and plenty to eat - good [?] I am in camp with the 54 reg
I.N.G.
at Iowa City Ia. Well girls I will [?] this time
and [?] [?] [?] [?]
From Ray E. Minard By By
At the top of the postcard, upside down is written: "That's me with a x marked Under the senter one."
Submitted by Jeanie Belding | |
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