Mr. Williams,
Your offer to do look ups is so kind. Thank You.
Do you have anything on Fergusons listed in the History of Decatur County?
Thank you so much,
Thelma Dwiggins
Please contact me if you are researching
Falconberry/Falconbury, Ferguson, Thurston
Ancestry.com lists 54 James M. Adams in the Civil War (North &
South).
Four of them from Indiana. One each in Company B & D of the 53rd
Indiana
Infantry, 1 in Company D, 145th Indiana Infantry, and 1 no company, 146th
Indiana Infantry with a note 145th Ind. Inf.
There is a 1915 book by Samuel Harding, History of Decatur County,
Indiana, which
contains unit rosters. The Decatur County Library indicates
they have it. The Anderson Indiana Public Library has a paper copy of it in
the Indiana Room. I have rented it on microfilm. Your librarian should be
able to find it. If not, contact me and I'll look it up.
Ancestry's Civil War Pension Index lists 31 Union names, but most of the
entries pertain to pensions for widows and minors. Ruling those out leaves 8
or 10. See if you can narrow it down to the Company/Regiment. If you can
determine where he enlisted and his rank at enlistment or discharge that may
help, too. (Although all the Hoosiers listed were discharged as privates;
one of them enlisted as a Corporal!)
Hope this helps.
Myron E. Williams
(Looking for parents of Sarah Catherine Burns, 1835 -- 1912, Decatur
County, IN,
married James Franklin Wheeldon, 1852, Decatur County.)
chrispet(a)flash.net wrote:
> I located James M. Adams in the 1900 Census, Decatur Co IN, Washington
Township. He said that he was a "pensioner". Does anyone know where I
could locate pension records from the Civil War? Would the local library
have that info? Or are there any books, etc. pertaining to Decatur Co that
are out there? I know that I can check with NARA but, I don't know in what
Unit, State, etc. he served. Any help would certainly be appreciated.
>
> Chris
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