Henry served in Company D, 3rd Michigan Infantry
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Henry S. Calkins - Maplewood Cemetery, Lamont, Michigan
Henry served in Company D, 3rd Michigan Infantry
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Felix Zoll
Felix Zoll was born May 19, 1832, in Ertingen, Riedlingen, Wurtemberg, Germany.
Felix left Europe in the late 1850s and came to the United States. Felix and possibly his older brother Fidelis arrived in North America in April of 1857, and eventually settled in Ohio.
He married his first wife Ohio native Elizabeth (1836-1872) in 1859, and they had at least three children: Ida or Ada (b. 1864), Mary (b. 1866) and Matilda (b. 1869).
By 1859-60 he was operating a boot-and-shoe store and living on the north side of Bridge Street between Front and Scribner Streets on the west side of the Grand River in Grand Rapids. In October of 1859 Felix joined the Grand Rapids Rifles, commanded by Captain Chris. Kusterer. (The GRR or “German Rifles” would serve as the nucleus for Company C of the Third Michigan infantry.) The following year he was reported as a bootmaker living with his wife in Grand Rapids’ Fourth Ward. (Curiously, there was also a Felix Zoll living in Union, Champaign County, Ohio in 1860.) By 1860 Felix and his wife were living in Grand Rapids’ Fourth Ward where he worked as a bootworker. (His older brother Fidelis was living in Ravenna, Muskegon County.) Just two houses away lived 19-year-old John Morgridge, who would join Company B in 1861.
Felix was 29 years old when he enlisted as Second Lieutenant in Company C on May 13, 1861, and was commissioned First Lieutenant on August 1, 1861.
In October of 1861 he was admitted to Georgetown Seminary hospital, suffering, he claimed in 1867, from typhoid fever, and on November 5, Dr. B. E. Thyer, Assistant Surgeon in one of the hospitals in Washington, DC, wrote to the War Department informing them that he had “carefully examined this officer and find that he has suffered from typhoid fever for six weeks, and that in consequence thereof he is in my opinion unfit for duty.” Since he could not recover his health “he was induced to resign and this was sole cause of such resignation.” Thus, on December 30, 1861, he wrote to Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas, “I hereby tender my resignation as 1st Lieutenant 3d Regiment Michigan Vols. on the following ground: I have been sick and was in the hospital about three months, I have had leave of absence for 30 days, but returned to my duty. I feel that I am not able to bear the hardships of camp life any longer. I hope that my petition will be granted.” It was. Felix was released from military service on account of typhoid fever on or about January 3, 1862.
Felix eventually returned to Michigan and was living in Lisbon or Wright, Ottawa County in 1867 when he applied for a pension (no. 95,423), drawing $17.00 per month in 1897. By 1870 he was working as a farmer and living with his wife and daughters in Wright, Ottawa County; next door lived the family of John Zoll, possibly a brother. Felix probably remained in the Lisbon area through 1872 (when his first wife died), but sometime around 1873, he either moved to Havana, Ohio and remarried, or remarried and then moved to his second wife’s home in Ohio.
Either way, he married his second wife Frances Brown (1850-1936), on June 10, 1873, in Bismark, Ohio, and they had at least seven children: Andrew J. (b. 1874), Otto V. (b. 1876), Mary M. (b. 1878), adopted daughter Mary (b. 1880), Joseph (b. 1884), Pauline (b. 1887) and Carlos B. (b. 1893). By the end of 1873 Felix was living in Havana where he would spend the rest of his days. By 1880 he was working as a shoemaker and living with his wife and children in Havana, Ohio; also living with them was his 10-year-old stepson, Mathias Brown.
He was possibly still living in Ohio in 1897.
Felix died of paralysis on October 22, 1897, in Havana, Ohio and was buried on October 24 in Havana.
His widow applied for and received a pension (no. 475,616).
Felix left Europe in the late 1850s and came to the United States. Felix and possibly his older brother Fidelis arrived in North America in April of 1857, and eventually settled in Ohio.
He married his first wife Ohio native Elizabeth (1836-1872) in 1859, and they had at least three children: Ida or Ada (b. 1864), Mary (b. 1866) and Matilda (b. 1869).
By 1859-60 he was operating a boot-and-shoe store and living on the north side of Bridge Street between Front and Scribner Streets on the west side of the Grand River in Grand Rapids. In October of 1859 Felix joined the Grand Rapids Rifles, commanded by Captain Chris. Kusterer. (The GRR or “German Rifles” would serve as the nucleus for Company C of the Third Michigan infantry.) The following year he was reported as a bootmaker living with his wife in Grand Rapids’ Fourth Ward. (Curiously, there was also a Felix Zoll living in Union, Champaign County, Ohio in 1860.) By 1860 Felix and his wife were living in Grand Rapids’ Fourth Ward where he worked as a bootworker. (His older brother Fidelis was living in Ravenna, Muskegon County.) Just two houses away lived 19-year-old John Morgridge, who would join Company B in 1861.
Felix was 29 years old when he enlisted as Second Lieutenant in Company C on May 13, 1861, and was commissioned First Lieutenant on August 1, 1861.
In October of 1861 he was admitted to Georgetown Seminary hospital, suffering, he claimed in 1867, from typhoid fever, and on November 5, Dr. B. E. Thyer, Assistant Surgeon in one of the hospitals in Washington, DC, wrote to the War Department informing them that he had “carefully examined this officer and find that he has suffered from typhoid fever for six weeks, and that in consequence thereof he is in my opinion unfit for duty.” Since he could not recover his health “he was induced to resign and this was sole cause of such resignation.” Thus, on December 30, 1861, he wrote to Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas, “I hereby tender my resignation as 1st Lieutenant 3d Regiment Michigan Vols. on the following ground: I have been sick and was in the hospital about three months, I have had leave of absence for 30 days, but returned to my duty. I feel that I am not able to bear the hardships of camp life any longer. I hope that my petition will be granted.” It was. Felix was released from military service on account of typhoid fever on or about January 3, 1862.
Felix eventually returned to Michigan and was living in Lisbon or Wright, Ottawa County in 1867 when he applied for a pension (no. 95,423), drawing $17.00 per month in 1897. By 1870 he was working as a farmer and living with his wife and daughters in Wright, Ottawa County; next door lived the family of John Zoll, possibly a brother. Felix probably remained in the Lisbon area through 1872 (when his first wife died), but sometime around 1873, he either moved to Havana, Ohio and remarried, or remarried and then moved to his second wife’s home in Ohio.
Either way, he married his second wife Frances Brown (1850-1936), on June 10, 1873, in Bismark, Ohio, and they had at least seven children: Andrew J. (b. 1874), Otto V. (b. 1876), Mary M. (b. 1878), adopted daughter Mary (b. 1880), Joseph (b. 1884), Pauline (b. 1887) and Carlos B. (b. 1893). By the end of 1873 Felix was living in Havana where he would spend the rest of his days. By 1880 he was working as a shoemaker and living with his wife and children in Havana, Ohio; also living with them was his 10-year-old stepson, Mathias Brown.
He was possibly still living in Ohio in 1897.
Felix died of paralysis on October 22, 1897, in Havana, Ohio and was buried on October 24 in Havana.
His widow applied for and received a pension (no. 475,616).
Saturday, June 18, 2011
William Zilky - updated 10/18/2016
William Zilky or Zuhlke, was born January 20, 1847 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Johann Daniel Zühlke (1803-1882) and Anna Regina Otterstein (b. 1807).
Johann and Anna immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Gollnow, Pommern, Prussia, in August of 1843. By 1850 William was living with his family in Milwaukee’s 2nd Ward.
William left Wisconsin and moved to Michigan.
He stood 5’3” with blue eyes, brown hair and a fair complexion and was a 17-year-old laborer possibly living in Spring Lake, Ottawa County when he enlisted in Company C on December 30, 1863, at Grand Rapids for 3 years, crediting Spring Lake, and was mustered the same day.
William joined the Regiment on February 18, 1864, at Camp Bullock, Virginia, and was treated for a headache from March 9 to 11.
He returned to duty and was transferred to Company I, 5th Michigan Infantry upon consolidation of the 3rd and 5th Michigan Regiments on June 10, 1864. William was sick with fever on June 29, 1864, and from July 2 to August 18, and was reported in a hospital in Washington, DC, in late July suffering from diarrhea. He may have been returned to duty but was hospitalized for dysentery on November 6. William was mustered out on July 5, 1865, at Jeffersonville, Indiana.
After the war William returned to Michigan, probably settling in Muskegon, Muskegon County, where he worked as a farmer for many years. He was living in Muskegon in 1887 and 1890, and 1896.
William reportedly married French-born Cordelia Chaltant (b. 1866) on January 31, 1890, in Laketown Township, Muskegon County.
Cordelia was apparently residing in Cahoon, New York, when he was admitted to the Michigan Soldiers’ Home (no. 3308) on December 27, 1899, in Grand Rapids. He was listed both at the Home in 1900 and living in North Muskegon with Cordelia; he was also living in the Home in 1910, listed as a widower. William was discharged at his own request on May 4, 1912, and by November was living in North Muskegon.
In 1896 William applied for and received pension no. 935,101, drawing $8.00 in 1899, increased to $12.00 per month in 1902, $16.50 in 1912, $21.50 in 1917 and to $27 by 1922. He was a member of the Old 3rd Michigan Infantry Association and a Protestant.
William was residing in North Muskegon when he died of heart disease at Hackley Hospital in Muskegon, on February 9, 1920. He was reportedly buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Muskegon although this cannot be confirmed.
Johann and Anna immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Gollnow, Pommern, Prussia, in August of 1843. By 1850 William was living with his family in Milwaukee’s 2nd Ward.
William left Wisconsin and moved to Michigan.
He stood 5’3” with blue eyes, brown hair and a fair complexion and was a 17-year-old laborer possibly living in Spring Lake, Ottawa County when he enlisted in Company C on December 30, 1863, at Grand Rapids for 3 years, crediting Spring Lake, and was mustered the same day.
William joined the Regiment on February 18, 1864, at Camp Bullock, Virginia, and was treated for a headache from March 9 to 11.
He returned to duty and was transferred to Company I, 5th Michigan Infantry upon consolidation of the 3rd and 5th Michigan Regiments on June 10, 1864. William was sick with fever on June 29, 1864, and from July 2 to August 18, and was reported in a hospital in Washington, DC, in late July suffering from diarrhea. He may have been returned to duty but was hospitalized for dysentery on November 6. William was mustered out on July 5, 1865, at Jeffersonville, Indiana.
After the war William returned to Michigan, probably settling in Muskegon, Muskegon County, where he worked as a farmer for many years. He was living in Muskegon in 1887 and 1890, and 1896.
William reportedly married French-born Cordelia Chaltant (b. 1866) on January 31, 1890, in Laketown Township, Muskegon County.
Cordelia was apparently residing in Cahoon, New York, when he was admitted to the Michigan Soldiers’ Home (no. 3308) on December 27, 1899, in Grand Rapids. He was listed both at the Home in 1900 and living in North Muskegon with Cordelia; he was also living in the Home in 1910, listed as a widower. William was discharged at his own request on May 4, 1912, and by November was living in North Muskegon.
In 1896 William applied for and received pension no. 935,101, drawing $8.00 in 1899, increased to $12.00 per month in 1902, $16.50 in 1912, $21.50 in 1917 and to $27 by 1922. He was a member of the Old 3rd Michigan Infantry Association and a Protestant.
William was residing in North Muskegon when he died of heart disease at Hackley Hospital in Muskegon, on February 9, 1920. He was reportedly buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Muskegon although this cannot be confirmed.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Almon Yerington
Almon Yerington was born on January 15, 1841, in Michigan, the son of William (b. 1818) and Amanda (Bennett, b. 1819).
New Yorker William married Ohio native Amanda sometime before 1841 by which time they had settled in Michigan. His family moved to Michigan, possibly from Ohio, sometime before 1843, and by 1860 Almon was a clerk living with his family in Ionia, Ionia County, where his father operated a drugstore.
Almon was 18 years old and still living in Ionia County when he enlisted in the Band on June 10, 1861. He was taken sick in late June or early July of 1862, and was among a group of sick and wounded soldiers who left Harrison’s Landing, Virginia on July 8. He was eventually hospitalized in Annapolis, Maryland. Curiously, he was mustered out on August 13 at Harrison’s Landing, Virginia, “as a member of the Band not as a Musician,” rather than for disability.
In any case, after he left the army Almon returned to Michigan where he reentered the service in Company E, Sixth Michigan cavalry on December 6, 1862, at Grand Rapids for 3 years, and was mustered the same day at Grand Rapids where the regiment was being organized. The Sixth remained on duty at Grand Rapids until December 10 when it left for Washington where it participated in the defenses of the capital until June of 1863. The Sixth occupied Gettysburg, Pennsylvania briefly on June 28 and while it was engaged at Hanover, Pennsylvania on June 30.
At some point Almon was detached from the Sixth and reportedly serving in the Brigade band from August of 1863 through December. He was still on detached service from March of 1864 until May 23, 1865 when the Sixth participated in the Grand Review in Washington and in June of 1865 when the Sixth was transferred to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was probably still on detached duty and was probably among those veterans and recruits who were transferred to the First Michigan cavalry when the Sixth was mustered out of service in June of 1865. Almon quite possibly remained detached from the First until he was honorably discharged on October 11, 1865, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Almon returned to Michigan, probably to his family’s home. By 1870 he was working as a druggust (he owned $3000 worth of personal property) and was living with his parents in Alma, Gratiot County.
He was married to New York native Mary Bailey Moyer (1853-1937) on May 21, 1871 in Alma, Gratiot County. For many years he worked as a druggist. By 1880 he was working as Justice of the Peace and living with his wife in Arcada, Gratiot County.
In 1889 he was living in Gratiot County when he applied for and received a pension (no. 655015). He was also apparently a good friend of former Third Michigan bandmember Charles Axtell. Charles had also joined the Michigan brigade (which comprised the Sixth Michigan cavalry among other units) and he too eventually settled in Alma.
Almon eventually moved west and settled in Eugene, Lane County, Oregon. He owned and operated a drug store along with his brother George.
He was probably living at 193 E. 10th Street in Eugene when he died of “softening of the brain” on February 25, 1904, and was perhaps buried in Eugene; however there is a record of his being buried in cemetery in Greenwood cemetery, Petoskey, Emmet County, Michigan: section F, block 85, lot 14, grave 6.
In 1904 his widow was residing in Oregon when she applied for and received a pension (no. 624089). In 1914 Charles, by then living in California, mentioned in a letter to a family member that he was still in contact with Yerington’s widow who was contemplating a visit to the Axtells in Los Angeles. She remarried to one J. P. Metcalf in 1909 and was divorced in 1911. By 1928 Mary was living in Petoskey, Emmet County, Michigan.
New Yorker William married Ohio native Amanda sometime before 1841 by which time they had settled in Michigan. His family moved to Michigan, possibly from Ohio, sometime before 1843, and by 1860 Almon was a clerk living with his family in Ionia, Ionia County, where his father operated a drugstore.
Almon was 18 years old and still living in Ionia County when he enlisted in the Band on June 10, 1861. He was taken sick in late June or early July of 1862, and was among a group of sick and wounded soldiers who left Harrison’s Landing, Virginia on July 8. He was eventually hospitalized in Annapolis, Maryland. Curiously, he was mustered out on August 13 at Harrison’s Landing, Virginia, “as a member of the Band not as a Musician,” rather than for disability.
In any case, after he left the army Almon returned to Michigan where he reentered the service in Company E, Sixth Michigan cavalry on December 6, 1862, at Grand Rapids for 3 years, and was mustered the same day at Grand Rapids where the regiment was being organized. The Sixth remained on duty at Grand Rapids until December 10 when it left for Washington where it participated in the defenses of the capital until June of 1863. The Sixth occupied Gettysburg, Pennsylvania briefly on June 28 and while it was engaged at Hanover, Pennsylvania on June 30.
At some point Almon was detached from the Sixth and reportedly serving in the Brigade band from August of 1863 through December. He was still on detached service from March of 1864 until May 23, 1865 when the Sixth participated in the Grand Review in Washington and in June of 1865 when the Sixth was transferred to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was probably still on detached duty and was probably among those veterans and recruits who were transferred to the First Michigan cavalry when the Sixth was mustered out of service in June of 1865. Almon quite possibly remained detached from the First until he was honorably discharged on October 11, 1865, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Almon returned to Michigan, probably to his family’s home. By 1870 he was working as a druggust (he owned $3000 worth of personal property) and was living with his parents in Alma, Gratiot County.
He was married to New York native Mary Bailey Moyer (1853-1937) on May 21, 1871 in Alma, Gratiot County. For many years he worked as a druggist. By 1880 he was working as Justice of the Peace and living with his wife in Arcada, Gratiot County.
In 1889 he was living in Gratiot County when he applied for and received a pension (no. 655015). He was also apparently a good friend of former Third Michigan bandmember Charles Axtell. Charles had also joined the Michigan brigade (which comprised the Sixth Michigan cavalry among other units) and he too eventually settled in Alma.
Almon eventually moved west and settled in Eugene, Lane County, Oregon. He owned and operated a drug store along with his brother George.
He was probably living at 193 E. 10th Street in Eugene when he died of “softening of the brain” on February 25, 1904, and was perhaps buried in Eugene; however there is a record of his being buried in cemetery in Greenwood cemetery, Petoskey, Emmet County, Michigan: section F, block 85, lot 14, grave 6.
In 1904 his widow was residing in Oregon when she applied for and received a pension (no. 624089). In 1914 Charles, by then living in California, mentioned in a letter to a family member that he was still in contact with Yerington’s widow who was contemplating a visit to the Axtells in Los Angeles. She remarried to one J. P. Metcalf in 1909 and was divorced in 1911. By 1928 Mary was living in Petoskey, Emmet County, Michigan.
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