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<DIV><FONT size=3>Linda, the only possible thing that I found was Lillian
Hamilton on the Oregon Death Index, died 6 Sep 1961 in Marion County,
Certificate: 11385, age 87. If this is your Lillian and she was 5
years old on the 1880 census, she was born approximately 1875 and
died 1961 which would be age 86. This would be assuming that she never
married.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Sue</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=LinLouVan@aol.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:53
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] I need help -
HAMILTON</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I guess it's time for me to call on the seemingly magic talents of the
Or-roots researchers.</DIV>
<DIV>I have been up and down through Ancestry - and Heritage Quest - and can
not find this family in 1900. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am researching Civil War Soldier Thaddeus M. HAMILTON. Here's what I
know.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>He was born 3 Jan 1848 in Brown County, Illinois to parents William &
Elizabeth Hamilton.</DIV>
<DIV> I found the family in the 1850 U.S. Census.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>On 1 Feb 1864 he was mustered in to Co. A, 50th Ill. Infantry at Mendon,
Illinois</DIV>
<DIV> He was mustered out 13 Jul 1865 at Louisville,
Kentucky</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>He was in Sparta, Chippewa Co., Minnesota in the 1870 U.S. Census taken
10 Jun 1870</DIV>
<DIV> He was single, age 22 and a farmer.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In 1875 he homesteaded 160 acres in Minn. - filed 3 Apr 1875 at the
Litchfield Land Office.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>At the time of the 1880 U.S. Census, he was in Eugene City, Lane Co.,
Oregon.</DIV>
<DIV> He was enumerated as T.M. Hamilton, with a wife,
Florence and three children: Olive,</DIV>
<DIV> Lilian, and Harry.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>He was listed in the 1890 Veterans Schedule as living in South Eugene
Precinct, Lane Co., </DIV>
<DIV> Oregon.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In 1890 he filed for Veteran's Pension - I have sent for papers.</DIV>
<DIV>Also in 1890, 1891 and 1894 he re-enlisted in the Oregon National Guard -
living in Eugene,</DIV>
<DIV> at least at the time of the 1891 certificate.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>According to the card index of Union Vetereans done by Spencer Leonard in
the 1960s, </DIV>
<DIV> Mr. Hamilton was one of the founding members of the
Eugene GAR Post #40. He moved </DIV>
<DIV> to Salem and was living there in 1912 and was a member
of Salem GAR Post #10.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>He died at the Asylum 16 June 1916. The GAR information says he was
buried in the</DIV>
<DIV> Milliorn Cemetery at Junction City.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am trying to put together documentation to get a Civil War Veteran's
grave marker.</DIV>
<DIV> And, I have become interested in what happened to his
family.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>SO, HERE ARE MY PROBLEMS:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I can not find any member of the family in the 1900 Census.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>According to the 1880 Census, the first two children were born in
Minnesota.</DIV>
<DIV> Therefore, there should be a marriage listing and two
birth listings in Minnesota.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>His wife apparently died before 1910, but I can not find her in the
Oregon Death Index.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>What happened to Olive, Lilian and Harry???</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I just know that I am missing something obvious and that one of you will
find it for me.</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks.</DIV>
<DIV>Linda L. VanOrden</DIV>
<DIV>Junction City, Oregon</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:LinLouVan@aol.com">LinLouVan@aol.com</A> </DIV>
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