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The Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home was founded in 1865 to
provide care, education and maintenance to the orphaned and destitute
children of Civil War Union Army veterans. The Home is located approximately
two miles south of Knightstown, Indiana .
During the late 1890's the Home's supporters grew concerned for the Home's
future because the number of Civil War veterans' orphans was dwindling. With
fewer children needing care the Home's demise was inevitable. The legislature
was persuaded to amend the law to include all destitute children of
servicemen who served on active duty in any of the authorized campaigns or
declared emergencies of the United States as evidenced by an award of
authorized decorations for service, an honorable discharge or a letter of
mourning or death certificate. Veterans' children from all subsequent wars
have been eligible for admission.
County
date of admission
CHILDERS KENNETH ROBERT FRANKLIN 1949
CHILDERS JAMES RALPH FRANKLIN 1949,
CHILDERS WILLIAM HENRY FRANKLIN 1954
CHILDERS DAISY MARIE LAWRENCE 1905
CHILDERS GRACE MAY LAWRENCE 1905
CHILDERS LILLIE OLIVE LAWRENCE 1905
CHILDERS THEADORE R. LAWRENCE 1905
CHILDERS JOSIE ESTHER LAWRENCE 1905
CHILDERS HENRY JAMES LAWRENCE 1905
CHILDERS CHARLES W. OWEN 1894
INDIANA JACK
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Not all was cut and dry during the Civil War. In the north there was the
"Copper Heads" ,an organization loyal to the the south. In the south, there
was the "Hero's of America" a secret group loyal to the Union. This is a
report of a southern "detective" assigned to inflitrate the Hero's in
southeastern Virginia. Among the Hero's are a William Childress and his
brothers.
> DUBLIN, VA., September 20, 1864.
Hon. J. A. SEDDON, Secretary of War:
SIR: As the car was about leaving this point yesterday I wrote to you a
hurried note stating that my plans with reference
> to the society
> >> known as the "Heroes of America" had been successful. The detectives,
>> with the aid I furnished them, have passed as members of this order and
>> are obtaining important information. We have a large list of traitors.
>> Within ten miles of this place we find three justices of the peace and one
>> Methodist minister attached to the society. While in Montgomery County,
>> among others, we have discovered the name of the sheriff recently elected.
>> I hae also reliable information that a prominent lawyer, one a candidate
>> for lieutenant-governor of the State of Virginia, is a leading membr of
>> the treasonable order. I hae but two detectives from Richmond and two
>> obtained here. I need more at once. The adjoining counites are full of
>> these people, and three or four men work in such a mass too slowly. I wish
>> before any arrests are made to obtain testimoney against the leaders in
>> four or five counties. I am told there are 800 members of the order in
>> Montgomery County alone. The Governor of this State, having been informed
>> of the existence of a secret society for treasonable purposes in Floyd
>> County, is taking steps to break it up. I fear his plans and mine may
>> conflict. Would it not be well to have infomred of the measures the
>> Government has adopted? I have efficient aid from General Echols.
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,
HENRY J. LEORY, C. S. Commissioner. [Inclosure No. 4.]
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OFFICE COMMISSIONER,
Dublin, September 19, 1864.
SIR: I have but a moment to write. My plans concerning the secret society
have been completely successful. I need more
> detectives. I fear the steps taken by Governor Smith may interfere with
> mine. I have names of many members-more prominent men. Your obedient
> servant, HENRY J. LEORY. [Inclosure No. 5.] Report of Detectives. Left
> Dublin the 12th of September (Monday evening); stopped all night with a Mr.
> Morgan, north the railroad about one mile from New River bridge; started
> next morning for the Central depot; stopped there and made inquiry for
> parties said to be living there; could find no such parties there. Saw
> Doctor Hammet, who informed me where some of the parties could be found;
> took the train to Crhistinasburg; arrived there, went in search of some of
> the parties named; first man found was Rowsie, a German living directly
> opposite the hotel kept by Mr. Burgess. He was standing in the door of the
> blacksmith shop. I walked up to him and gae him the sign of the order. He
> did not answer at first, seeming very shy. After a few moments made the
> sign again. After a little while he said, "These are gloomy times here,"
> that being one of the passwords of the order. I answered, "Yes, but we are
> looking for better," that being the answer. He then smiled, seeing I had
> answered him correctly. We then had a little talk. He then introduced me to
> a young man named Henry Questine, who was working at the forage. I passed
> the sign, grip, and passwords with whim. After getting out of the
> >> door he told Rowsie he trhought he knew me. I aksed Rowsie what his name
>> was. He told me. I then told him he did know me. I thereupon went in and
>> told him I was not passing by my full name, and asked him not to make my
>> name known, as it might prevent my passing about a little unsae with the
>> authorities, which I think he was careful in doing. Rowsie then invited me
>> in the adjoining shop, there introduced me to a man at the foage by the
>> name of Fariss. I passed signs, grip, and passwords with him, and we then
>> had a converstion about the gloomy times and gloomy men; found him a
>> member of the order, very much against the Confederate States; heard
>> fromQuestine afterward that this man talked with General Averell at the
>> time he waurg. There was also a Generman, whose name I did not learn, at
>> work with him, also a member of the order. By appointment with Questine,
>> McGill and myself walked out with him some distance on the road and had a
>> long conversation on the subject of the order, its members, objects, &c.
>> He told me of the following-named persons, members of the order: Daniel H.
>> Hoge, the lawyer living on the North Fork of the Roanoke River; William
>> Harman and Captain Callahan, of tghe policy; Captain John Francis,
>> formerly of French's battery, now sheriff-elect of the county of
>> Montgomery. He told me this man had resigned his command, and his
>> lieutenant had afterward carried the most of his command to the Yankee
>> army. He also told us the organization was first formed in the county by a
>> man named Horace Dean, about twelve months ago, who came on from Richmond,
>> but whose home is in North Carolina, and that he passed through Carooll
>> County, Va., on his way home. Also a man named Williams, a wheelwright in
>> Christiansburg, belonging to tghe order, and William Burnett, a
>> cabinetmaker, of same town, who was afterward seen and conversed with by
>> McGill. Also one Randall Cardin, and initiating officer, who lives on the
>> Pepper's Ferry road, and oone Bresser, nearby, and said there were some
>> tne of them living there near together of the order, and of a lot of
>> deserters on a place called Tom's Creek, and said they were supplied with
>> poowder and caps by members in Christinasburg to resist their capture. He
>> mentioned in his conversation that the members of the order were bound to
>> convery all the information they could obtain to the enemy, and to assist
>> all deserters from our army. On the following day, the 14th day of
>> September, McGill and myself were seated on the platform in front of
>> Rowsie's dwelling; he, Rowsie, then told us that Captain John Francis,
>> then sitting a short distance from us with several persons around him, a
>> ll belonged to the order, and that he was elected sheriff by reason of his
>> being a member of order, and also of Lawyer Daniel H. Hoge, of the same
>> county, who was also a member of the order: that three-fourths at least of
>> the people of the county were members, and in Floyd County nearly all the
>> people, and in Giles and Montgomery, and also a greater part of the men of
>> the Fifty-fourth Virginia Regiment also members, and that it was widely
>> extending in the army near Petersburg. We endeavored on the same evening
>> to get an interview with Captain John Francis. I sent Questine to ask him
>> to meet us in room No. 4 in the hotel; saw McGill; told him. We then went
>> on to the room; reMained there some time. Captain Frencis did not come. I
>> then asked McGill to go out and look for him. He went out, and saw
>> Questine go up and speak to Francis, who directly after mounted his horse
>> and rode off without our speaking to him. We supposed he was afraid
>> >>> we were not all right, and we thought the rest of the party seemed to
>>> be getting restless and uneasy from some cause or other. We left
>>> Christiansburg and walked to the Montgomery Springs; left there next
>>> morning, Thursday, 15th, for Dublin Depot; then went over to Newbern; had
>>> an interview with Major Leory; started next morning from Newbern for
>>> Snowville; stopped on the route at any Hall's, between the ferry and
>>> Sonwville; found the family strong Union people. The women seemed to know
>>> all about the order; one of the women know the passwords. I afterward
>>> heard they were members of the order. any Hall said his sons and
>>> son-in-law were in the brush, and would never serve in the Southern Army.
>>> Told them we were Union men in search of information to send to the
>>> Federal Army. They seemed highly pleased. any Hall said he had never
>>> joined the order; that his recollection was so bad he could not remember
>>> the passwords, &c. When we left he wlaked with us and showed us the road;
>>> told us to stop at his borther's, David P. Hall; that he was a member of
>>> the order. We then passed on to Snwville; staid all night. Left next
>>> morning, Saturday, the 17th, for Childress' Stores; passed by, came to
>>> the farm of William Childress, who, we had been informed, wa s a member
>>> of the order. Met him at home; passed sign and grip and passwrods with
>>> him; found him to be a member of the order; had a conversation about the
>>> war and found him a strong Union man, much opposed to the war and the
>>> Confederacy. Told us his brothers, Tom and Stephen, were members, and
>>> invited us over to the distillery, where we met his brohter Tom, a
>>> justice of the peace, who is a very strong Union man. He said, in
>>> conversation with McGill, that some man was making brady, and would like
>>> to make some for Uncle Jeff; that he would make it all right. McGill
>>> replied he would put something in it, would he not? He said yes, seeming
>>> much pleased. There was also a cooper named Tom W. Terry, a violent Union
>>> man. Captain John Francis came while we were there, and there was a great
>>> deal of private conversation among the party. Then we were afterward told
>>> by James Hight that they were consulting about killing us if they could
>>> find out whether we were spies sent there to find out what they were
>>> doing. When we were in the act of leaving, Stephen Childress advised us
>>> not to go on to Christiansburg, but to stop with Madison Smith, a
>>> preacher. We went on to Christiansburg next morning, Sunday, 18th;
>>> raining quite hard; went out to Preacher Smith's; found him at home; went
>>> in; made the sign to him. He did not answer at first; seemed to be
>>> suspicentered into conversation with him; told him we were recommended to
>>> come to see him by Stephen Childress, and, after talking sometime, told
>>> him, from conversation with Childress, I inferred he was a mameber of the
>>> Order of the Heroes of America; said he had heard of it; told him we were
>>> in search of information to take to the Federal Army. He was much in
>>> favor of the Yankees and opposed to the Confederae cause. Told us we need
>>> not be afraid to talk to him; told him McGill was going through the
>>> lines. During the time we were there a man named James Thompson came in.
>>> He was a violent Union man; said to be keeper of the poorhouse. After
>>> remaining three or four hours, we took our leave, and had gotten some 100
>>> yards when Preacher Smith called to us. We halted; he came up to us and
>>> said he supposed we understood he was all right-that he was a preacher
>>> and must be cautions how he talked to strangers. Told him I supposed he
>>> was a members of the order; that he knew we were, and in as much danger
>>> as himself. He then
>>> >>>> acknowledge he was; gave us the grip at parting and wished us much
>>>>
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Jack,
I would love to have a copy of the will. If it is not too much trouble,
could you send it to jeannean(a)ardnet.com Thank you, very much, for any
way you choose to send it.
jeannean
Looking for Childers/Childress of VA or WVA. My great grandfather Isaac Childers was born Dec 10, 1819 in Harrison County, WVA. His parents were William & Sydney (Richards) Childers of VA. Isaac married Hilda Thorp, daughter of Hezekiah Thorpe, Dec 15, 1842 in Lewis County, VA. Their first 5 of 15 children were born in the Dodderidge County VA area as they are listed on the 1850 Dodderidge County census before they headed west to IA & MO. Also on the 1850 Dodderidge County Census in a Joseph K Childers & family including Sidinea Childers age 75 Female. This would possibly indicate Joseph & Issac were brothers since Sydney/Sidinea Childers is known to be Isaac's mother. Vee Jorgensen
Yes, I am working on a Childers/Childress family that came from
Virginia, but no one seems to have heard of them.
I have proven to a William Nicholas who was born 26 Aug 1819 in either
Rockingham or Albemarle Co. Va. He may be the son of a William and
Susannah Childers. This is the family tradition.
16 Jan 1841 he married Martha Ferrell in Albemarle Co. Va. She was tje
daughter of Lewis and Martha Ferrell.
By 1848 William and Martha Childers, Lewis and Martha Ferrell, both
families had moved to Lewis Co. Va. now WV.
Has anyone heard of these people?
Jean
I have a will dated 1854 Darke County, Ohio for anyone that wants it.
It's in .jpg format I'll sent it to whoever needs it ( just don't feel like
typing it all out.)
INDIANA JACK
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Have Revolutionary War Bounty Warrant for Henry Childress of Charlotte
County, VA. Along with copies of Ohio land grant. Also, I located the land in
Ohio and have a map to show the exact position on current day map. I will
sent it to anyone who requests it. Also, interested in finding out more about
this fella, could be a link to my line.
INDIANA JACK
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CEMETERY DIRECTORY</A>
P-ATSY S. CHILDRESS, 62, of Knoxville, died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2002, at Fort
Sanders Parkwest Medical Center in Knoxville.
Born Sept. 11, 1939, in Knoxville, she was the daughter of William Childress
of Claxton and Ruth Childress, who is deceased.
Ms. Childress was a nurse for several years at Baptist Hospital in
Knoxville.
She also worked at Shannondale Health Care Center, before her retirement in
2001.
In addition to her father, she is survived by two nieces, Karen Verklas, and
family, of Powell, and Donna Douglas, and family ,of Jefferson County; and,
a
grandniece she considered special, Cindy Hayes and family.
Phyllis Payne, and family, were considered special friends.
In addition to her mother, Ms. Childress was preceded in death by her
sister,
Nancy Ridner.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, in the chapel of
Woodhaven Funeral Home in Claxton with the Rev. David Hughes and the Rev.
Ronnie Dotson officiating.
Burial will follow at Woodhaven Memorial Gardens.
The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, at the
funeral home.
http://pages.prodigy.net/revon1/
My Civil War site might be shut down temporally seems I've been exceeding my
allotted bandwidth. i.e. ---too many hits
INDIANA JACK
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CEMETERY DIRECTORY</A>
While I'm redoing our civil war site, here's your chance to input ideas,
complain, suggest, what ever you feel like doing. Tell me what you would
like to see!
INDIANA JACK
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As of last count I have found 1423 Childers/Childers/ Childrey/ , etc., that
were soldiers in the Civil War. Since I once more will have plenty of time on
my hands. I'm reworking our Civil War or the War of Northern Aggression (for
you southern couzins,) site
The site will have in time better documentation, regimental histories and
added information. However, my goal is to find out the demise of all the men.
i.e. did they die of disease during the war, were they wounded, were they
killed in action, were they crippled in any way, where are they buried so on
and so on. In general what became of them because of the war.
I would greatly appreciate any comments, questions, suggestions, etc.,
or assistance from those of you that all ready know the answers to the above
as far as your kin.
INDIANA JACK
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