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<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>
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<DIV>I am researching Civil War Soldier Thaddeus M. HAMILTON. Here's what I know.</DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>In 1875 he homesteaded 160 acres in Minn. - filed 3 Apr 1875 at the Litchfield Land Office.</DIV>
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<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>
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<DIV>He was listed in the 1890 Veterans Schedule as living in South Eugene Precinct, Lane Co., </DIV>
<DIV> Oregon.</DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>SO, HERE ARE MY PROBLEMS:</DIV>
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<DIV>I can not find any member of the family in the 1900 Census.</DIV>
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<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>
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<DIV>His wife apparently died before 1910, but I can not find her in the Oregon Death Index.</DIV>
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<DIV>What happened to Olive, Lilian and Harry???</DIV>
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<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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