[or-roots] Re: I need help - HAMILTON (update)

[LinLouVan at aol.com]

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)

(I apologize to those for whom the red lettering causes problems. Just prese 
"delete" if this is too much of an issue.)

In a message dated 8/31/05 7:53:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, LinLouVan writes:
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.
I was just looking once again - before I put it back on the shelf - at this 
book
published by my friend, Gregory Toftdahl, "Oregon Newspaper Death Notices 
1864-1902, 
Second Edition".

Here's one of special interest to me:
HAMILTON, T.M. MRS.            6 FEB 1886    5    EUGENE, OR

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

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.
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.

What happened to Olive, Lilian and Harry???
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.

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.

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.
Thanks.
Linda L. VanOrden
Junction City, Oregon
LinLouVan at aol.com 
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.

Thanks for "listening".
Linda VanOrden
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