[or-roots] I need help - HAMILTON

[LinLouVan at aol.com]

I guess it's time for me to call on the seemingly magic talents of the 
Or-roots researchers.
I have been up and down through Ancestry - and Heritage Quest - and can not 
find this family in 1900. 

I am researching Civil War Soldier Thaddeus M. HAMILTON. Here's what I know.

He was born 3 Jan 1848 in Brown County, Illinois to parents William & 
Elizabeth Hamilton.
    I found the family in the 1850 U.S. Census.

On 1 Feb 1864 he was mustered in to Co. A, 50th Ill. Infantry at Mendon, 
Illinois
    He was mustered out 13 Jul 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky

He was in Sparta, Chippewa Co., Minnesota in the 1870 U.S. Census taken 10 
Jun 1870
    He was single, age 22 and a farmer.

In 1875 he homesteaded 160 acres in Minn. - filed 3 Apr 1875 at the 
Litchfield Land Office.

At the time of the 1880 U.S. Census, he was in Eugene City, Lane Co., Oregon.
    He was enumerated as T.M. Hamilton, with a wife, Florence and three 
children: Olive,
    Lilian, and Harry.

He was listed in the 1890 Veterans Schedule as living in South Eugene 
Precinct, Lane Co., 
    Oregon.

In 1890 he filed for Veteran's Pension - I have sent for papers.
Also in 1890, 1891 and 1894 he re-enlisted in the Oregon National Guard - 
living in Eugene,
    at least at the time of the 1891 certificate.

According to the card index of Union Vetereans done by Spencer Leonard in the 
1960s, 
    Mr. Hamilton was one of the founding members of the Eugene GAR Post #40. 
He moved 
    to Salem and was living there in 1912 and was a member of Salem GAR Post 
#10.

In the 1910 U.S. Census, he was living at the Oregon State Insane Asylum, 
listed as an         employee - a gardener. He is listed as a widower.

He died at the Asylum 16 June 1916. The GAR information says he was buried in 
the
    Milliorn Cemetery at Junction City.

I am trying to put together documentation to get a Civil War Veteran's grave 
marker.
    And, I have become interested in what happened to his family.

SO, HERE ARE MY PROBLEMS:

I can not find any member of the family in the 1900 Census.

According to the 1880 Census, the first two children were born in Minnesota.
    Therefore, there should be a marriage listing and two birth listings in 
Minnesota.

His wife apparently died before 1910, but I can not find her in the Oregon 
Death Index.

What happened to Olive, Lilian and Harry???

I just know that I am missing something obvious and that one of you will find 
it for me.
Thanks.
Linda L. VanOrden
Junction City, Oregon
LinLouVan at aol.com 
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