Military

           I have lots of veterans in my family.  I’ve written about some of them.  Last year we had a prompt entitled “War”.  Within that blog entry are links to the American Revolution and Civil War.  I have another blog entry entitled “Family Veterans” which has a link to an earlier post on the same topic.

I recently joined Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War using my ancestor Thomas Stead.  I referenced him briefly in the post on Veteran Ancestors in 2016.  He enlisted as a private on 16^th of August 1862 and served in the company of Capt J W Jewhursts, Regiment #9 from New York as heavy artillery.  His service ended (via telegram) on 6 July 1865 (160 years ago!) as a corporal.

Thomas was born 7 January 1847 in England to James Stead and Mary Ann Tolson.  The family immigrated to the United States when he was very young (age 0-3). They initially settled in Seneca Falls, Seneca County, New York.  Sometime between 1860 and 1870 the family moved to Dundee, Kane County, Illinois.  Thomas married Arabella Brown, daughter of Daniel Brown and Ann Barge,  on 1^st July 1873 in Kane County, Illinois.  He died 5^th of October 1910 in Dundee, Kane Co, Illinois.  Thomas and Arabella had five children.

         I could submit a supplemental on Arabella’s father, Daniel.  He was a private in the 124^th Illinois Infantry as of July 1863.  Another record indicates that he was in Company D of the 52^nd Illinois infantry.  Daniel was born in England circa 1819 and died 18^th of September 1863.  He married Ann Barge on the 14^th of August 1852 in Red Bank, Monmouth Co, New Jersey and they had a total of five children.