Civil War Ancestors

[Tionesta Toby]

Two organizations to check out if you are interested in your Civil War ancestors:

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War http://www.suvcw.org

Sons of Confederate Veterans http://scv.org/

Both are hereditary organizations formed to honor the memory and service of the men who served their side in the war.

[Scratch]

Great Grandad, Adelbert Terwilliger, served the Union with the 8th and 32nd Iowa Infantry, Company E.  He was later a Sheriff in Benklemen, Nebraska.

[Halfway Creek Charlie]

My great great Grandfather Jacob B. Swhier served with the 140th Indiana Infantry. He lived near New Mt. Pleasant Indiana when he joined up.

His daughter, My great Grandmother, came to stay with us the Summer I was 5. She was dying of Cancer and wanted me to remember who she was.(she raised my Mom and my Aunt).  I remember some great and fun times during her stay and I have never forgotten that tall white haired soul who would rock me in her dad's rocker, sing songs I later learned to be hymn's, and once put my shoes on the wrong feet. I never got to see her again. She passed away the night after Christmas that year, one day before my sister was born.

RIP Fanny Swhier Pascal,  you and yours are not forgotten.

I am trying to trace my great grand father on my dad's side. John A. Harper from Washington Courthouse Ohio, Union Twnshp, Fayette County. I can find several John A. Harper's but I don't know which units were formed around Fayette County Ohio. At least one of his brothers fought for the Confederacy, from Virginia.

[Stillwater]

I have had many family members, involved, on both sides of the Civil War... Therefore, being strictly neutral, I can take a shot at who ever sticks their head up...   

Bill

[Dr. Bob]

And ALL of us can shoot back!!     

[amin ledbetter]

My Great Grand Father William Robbins was in Company K 45th Regiment Mounted Infantry in Morgan County Kentucky.

I use to have his discharge papers but my Father let my cousin borrow them to do our family tree several years ago and I have yet to get them back. I do have several letters from the Department of the Interior addressed to my Great Grandfather about his pension. I assume he was wounded during the war some how but have never been able to find out anything in detail about that. There is a lot I do not know about my Great Grandfather or my Grandfather. My Grandfather died at age 77 in 1975. I was 4 years old. I have no surviving family members whom I can ask about my Great Grandfathers life. I am trying to piece together who he was and what he did. I have a few of his belongings, and a lot of old letters. I also have an old single shot 12 gauge shot gun. I can not find a name brand on it. Old Damascus barreled single shot.

Strange fact: My youngest son was born in 2001. I only new of my grandfathers name up to that time. ( Ora Robbins ) I didn't know of my great grandfathers name until about 5 years ago. I named my son William ( William Cody Dale Robbins ) Strange how that worked. But neat!

[Caprock Louis]

Had several also in that war; however we must not forget the correct wording is the War of Northern Aggression.  Well at least in this part of the world.

Respectfully

Caprock Louis

Lost somewhere deep in the heart of Texas

[Texas Lawdog]

I had kinfolks on both sides. My GG uncle was a Capt. in the Army when the CW started. He stayed in and continued to serve after the War. He participated in the Powder River campaigns.  My mother's side of the family was from Virginia and both GG Grandfathers served in the CSA.  I have my GG uncle's 1851 Navy Colt and most of the original holster.

[Caprock Louis]

Even if I consider it the War of Northern Agression I must admit on my mothers side who lived in Missouri they were new German immigrants of first generation at that time and fought for the north.  My fathers side came from Georgia then Tennessee so they were from the South.  My wife has her great grandDad buried here in our home town in Texas with a Civil War monument.  He passed away in l937 I believe

A century and a half heals wounds but must remembeer to learn.

Caprock Louis

lost deep in the heart of Texas

[Texas Lawdog]

My Dad's kinfolks were from Missouri also. My GG Uncle would come on leave and remove his blue uniform and attended family functions with our Confederate kinfolks.

[Ozark Tracker]

my Dad's kin was from Stone County Missouri,  Yankee's all,   

Mom's relatives were Indian and from Indian Territory (Oklahoma)  Confederates all.

the Yankee bunch of the relatives saw service through Indian Territory and later moved there because of the good farm land they saw there and wanted to farm.

My Granddad ran off from Missouri when he was 13 and came to Indian Territory in 1903

[Texas Lawdog]

My Dad's kinfolks are from Johnson County, Missouri. I've been trying to find a history of Johnson County book to no avail. My G Grandmother on my Dad's side of the family made the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889 and they settled in the Oklhoma Panhandle town of Texhoma. G Granddad had a livery stable and wagon yard.

[Ozark Tracker]

this article is about one of my ggggrand dads,  he the  James Yochum  mentioned,  from the history of Stone County. Missouri



Authentic history of the occupation, settlement and colonization of this region which on February 10, 1851, became Stone County, Missouri, begins about 50 years before the creation of the county. During this period there were two distinct immigrations, one of which was by the Delaware Indians and the other by Anglo-Saxon colonizer's. This treatise will stop at the Civil War period.

The Delaware Indians immigrated to this region about 1800 to 1808 and remained until their evacuation under Governmental compulsion in 1830 to the Kansas Territory. These were the progeny of the Delaware Indians which the European explorers, more than two centuries before, had found in the valley of the Delaware River. They were the traditional enemies of the Iroquois which finally conquered them after which the pressure of both the Iroquois and the whites forced them periodically and successively westward into Ohio, Indiana, and finally into Missouri.1 They lived in portions of Southeast Missouri and finally in territory now included in Greene, Christian, Taney and Stone counties during which time they built and occupied the well-known Delaware town or village on James River in territory which afterwards became Christian County and at or near the point where Highway 14 now crosses that stream. They were peaceful Indians. After their evacuation in 1830, they returned here annually until 1836 to hunt and fish, but when the whites misunderstood their innocent purposes, and a military force was sent to investigate, they quietly left this region never to return.2

The first known white settler in this region was James Yocum (sometimes spelled Yoachum) of French origin who about 1790 located at the junction of James and White rivers. He carried on trading with the Indians and the white settlers who had furs and peltries to sell or to barter in exchange for such necessities as coffee, salt, blankets, cloth, shoes, rifles, bullets, pots, knives, hatchets, axes and other articles of primary importance to the settler's manner of life. At that time bear, deer, buffalo, elk, beaver, raccoon and other wild life were abundant.3

[3]

A trade-coin, the Yocum Dollar, served the local necessities of commerce. This coin was stamped with two words, "Yocum Dollar", and was not intended to be a counterfeit. Its size and shape were identical to the American dollar, and it contained more pure silver.4

An important historical event in this region was the tour of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an historian and explorer who, in 1818 and 1819 at the age of twenty-five, visited this region to study its features and its occupants. He wrote one of his books in 1853.

Scboolcraft found these early white settlers, in the main, were not interested in agricultural pursuits. They cleared out and cultivated only an acre or so of land and grew corn for the family and the horses, and a few vegetables for family use, but hunting and trapping were their main interests. He said that when hunting season arrived, their ordinary labors even in the cornfield fell upon their wives and that "the inhabitants pursue a similar course of life to that of the savages whose love of ease the settlers generally embraced." Among other settlers, Schoolcraft and his party visited Yocum who fed them roast beaver tails.6

[Ozark Tracker]

Grandpa's other Granddad was French Canidian,  Joseph Philibert,  he married one of the Yochum girls. 

he was a trapper and Mountain man

he was captured in what is Coloroda now by the Spanish in 1814 and taken to Taos, New Mexico where he was held almost a year and eventually released and allowed to return to Missouri.

check out the article below.

http://books.google.com/books?id=FRoIDsG_1uEC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=joseph+philibert+missouri+taos+spanish&source=bl&ots=VYbXcv6jhR&sig=Fth1h7OCzNEj3Tz0ei8ijR4zM34&hl=en&ei=s4_aSuyQAsLU8Aa50b23BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=joseph%20philibert%20missouri%20taos%20spanish&f=false


google  Joseph Philibert Missouri to see some of the stories.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

You don't have one of those dollars, do you?  That'd be an interesting family heirloom.

[Ozark Tracker]

I've seen a picture of one that they have in the Missouri Historical society but that's as close as I've come,  they also have some wooden hand carved dies that they think some of the coins may have been cast in.

one relative has a plastic copy of the coin that they gave away at Silver Dollar City when it first opened,  I'd even like to see one of those.