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<DIV>Some of you will remember this posting I did on August 31. Thank you again to those who did some research and gave me some valuable clues. I also had some other contacts and here is an update on what I know now. (inserted in the following history)</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 8/31/05 7:53:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, LinLouVan writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I guess it's time for me to call on the seemingly magic talents of the Or-roots researchers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been up and down through Ancestry - and Heritage Quest - and can not find this family in 1900. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am researching Civil War Soldier Thaddeus M. HAMILTON. Here's what I know.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He was born 3 Jan 1848 in Brown County, Illinois to parents William & Elizabeth Hamilton.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I found the family in the 1850 U.S. Census.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On 1 Feb 1864 he was mustered in to Co. A, 50th Ill. Infantry at Mendon, Illinois</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> He was mustered out 13 Jul 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He was in Sparta, Chippewa Co., Minnesota in the 1870 U.S. Census taken 10 Jun 1870</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> He was single, age 22 and a farmer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In 1875 he homesteaded 160 acres in Minn. - filed 3 Apr 1875 at the Litchfield Land Office.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At the time of the 1880 U.S. Census, he was in Eugene City, Lane Co., Oregon.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> He was enumerated as T.M. Hamilton, with a wife, Florence and three children: Olive,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Lilian, and Harry.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>I was just looking once again - before I put it back on the shelf - at this book</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>published by my friend, Gregory Toftdahl, "Oregon Newspaper Death Notices 1864-1902, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>Second Edition".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>Here's one of special interest to me:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>HAMILTON, T.M. MRS. 6 FEB 1886 5 EUGENE, OR</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>Greg does regular newspaper research at the UO library and I've asked him to abstract this for me. If Mrs. Hamilton died in 1886, that would explain why I couldn't find her in the 1900 U.S. Census OR the Oregon Death Index.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He was listed in the 1890 Veterans Schedule as living in South Eugene Precinct, Lane Co., </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Oregon.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In 1890 he filed for Veteran's Pension - I have sent for papers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also in 1890, 1891 and 1894 he re-enlisted in the Oregon National Guard - living in Eugene,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> at least at the time of the 1891 certificate.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>According to the card index of Union Vetereans done by Spencer Leonard in the 1960s, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Mr. Hamilton was one of the founding members of the Eugene GAR Post #40. He moved </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> to Salem and was living there in 1912 and was a member of Salem GAR Post #10.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>I have a friend, Lee Gentemann (probably on this list) who looked up Mr. Hamilton for me in the Salem City Directories and found him in 1913 and 1915 living in Salem. And, also found that he admitted himself to the Oregon Soldiers' Home in Roseburg 22 Sep 1915. He was there less than six months before being admitted to the Oregon State Insane Asylum where he died 3 months and 3 days later.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He died at the Asylum 16 June 1916. The GAR information says he was buried in the</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> Milliorn Cemetery at Junction City.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>Lee Gentemann also looked up the abstracted record for the undertaker listed on the Oregon Death Certificate. That document shows that the "body was shipped to Eugene".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>In my mind that is quite different than being "buried in Eugene". So now I am trying to figure out who might have received the body in Eugene to take it to Junction City for burial.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am trying to put together documentation to get a Civil War Veteran's grave marker.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> And, I have become interested in what happened to his family.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What happened to Olive, Lilian and Harry???</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>These children would have been ages 13, 11 and 8 when their mother died. Thanks to someone on this list, I now know t hat Olive and Lilian both married in Benton County. By the time of their father's death, Lilian had died and Olive was widowed. I still have not found Harry. There is a Linn County Coroner's document that I have not yet been to the archives to research.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>The things I now need is some sort of concrete evidence (no pun intended) that he is buried in Milliorn Cemetery. But, we think there is enough circumstantial evidence to place a memorial stone there anyway.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>Also, the document that is needed to send to the VA for a military stone is the Enlistment, the Discharge or a Pension document. All three of these should be included with the Civil War Pension file which I have ordered from the National Archives. And I wait.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Linda L. VanOrden</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Junction City, Oregon</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A title=mailto:LinLouVan@aol.com href="mailto:LinLouVan@aol.com"><FONT face=Arial size=2>LinLouVan@aol.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>This has been the greatest exercise for me. All of my own family research is stalled at dead ends and brick walls. This special project has given me some new insights about research. So as soon as I get together the documentation and the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War order the stone, I am going back to my own family research.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>Thanks for "listening".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>Linda VanOrden</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>