Carlyle Union Banner Obituaries
1863 - 1865
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This is a ongoing project by one of our great volunteers, Linda Holthaus. She is in the process of transcribing all the early obituaries from the Carlyle Union Banner.
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| Name | Newspaper | Date & Location | Article |
| AUSTIN, Wm. M. | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, October 29, 1863 Page 2, Column 5 | The following is a list of killed and wounded in the late battle of Chickamauga, from Clinton County, as far as received: KILLED: Sergt. Wm. ROPER, Sergt. Wm. M. Austin, Albert MACE, Robert McDONALD. WOUNDED: Major Samuel JOHNSON, Thomas KIRKHAM, Conrad MEIK, Lafayette SMITH, Samuel Smith, John DETIKER, Buel J. BLANTON, Charles ELLING, Frank ADAMS. MISSING: Alexander H. SHARP |
| BOND, Laura | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, April 27, 1865 Page 2 Column 4 | Died, Near O’Fallon, Illinois, on the "Hart Farm" on the 11th day of April, A.D. 1865, Mrs. Laura Bond, wife of Joshua S. BOND. She was the grand-daughter of Rev. James LEMEN, of "Bethel Church" neighborhood, St. Clair County, Illinois, who is still living, and honored, at an advanced age, and daughter of Jess M. and Nancy HART, both deceased. She was born on the 12th day of November, 1843, and was of course in her twenty-second year when she died, she was the mother of three children, Jessie Lee, Ben. and Laura May. The first of whom died on the 15th day of November, 1864, a precious lovely cherub, and the latter on the 14th day of April 1865. The sainted mother and her two sweet flowerets now form in God's own Heaven a beautiful trio, in the association of Angels and pure spirits. |
| DAUGHTRY, James | The Union Banner | Thursday July 2, 1863 Page 3 Column 3 | Rev. James H. WATTS, will preach the funerals of St. James L. Daughtry, William Daughtry and Thomas Daughtry at Clark’s school house, in East Fork, on Sunday, the 5th inst. prox. at 11 o’clock A.M. –They all belonged to Co. K 80th Ills. Vols. and died in the service of their country. |
| DAUGHTRY, Mary | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, October 29, 1863 Page 2, Column 4 | On Wednesday, the 28th of November, '63, Mrs. Mary Daughtry, wife of Robert Daughtry. The deceased was an old and highly respectable citizen of our County. Note: The paper clearly stated November even though the paper was printed in October. |
| DAUGHTRY, Thomas | The Union Banner | Thursday July 2, 1863 Page 3 Column 3 | Rev. James H. WATTS, will preach the funerals of St. James L. Daughtry, William Daughtry and Thomas Daughtry at Clark’s school house, in East Fork, on Sunday, the 5th inst. prox. at 11 o’clock A.M. –They all belonged to Co. K 80th Ills. Vols. and died in the service of their country. |
| DAUGHTRY, William | The Union Banner | Thursday July 2, 1863 Page 3 Column 3 | Rev. James H. WATTS, will preach the funerals of St. James L. Daughtry, William Daughtry and Thomas Daughtry at Clark’s school house, in East Fork, on Sunday, the 5th inst. prox. at 11 o’clock A.M. –They all belonged to Co. K 80th Ills. Vols. and died in the service of their country. |
| FRENCH, Joseph | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, December 31, 1863 Page 3, Column 2 | DIED: On the 8th ultimo, Mr. Joseph French, of this county. Born April 14th, 1805. We understand that Mr. French was an active and devout member of the M.E. Church for twenty of his latter years, and departed carrying with him the hope and prospect of a bright immortality. |
| HAGER, Caspar Herman | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, June 22, 1865 Page 3 Column 1 | MAN KILLED: On Saturday as the 4 o'clock freight train was stopping at the depot, a man by the name of Caspar Herman Hager, was attempting to pass under the train, it moved along, cutting off both arms below the elbow and one leg. He died at 7 o'clock same day. Persons should take warning and not attempt to pass under a train when an engine is attached to it. Deceased was a resident of St. Louis. |
| HOUSER, Joseph | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, June 29, 1865 Page 2, Column 3 |
Full Particulars of the O. & M. Disaster. On Tuesday
night 20th, about 11 1-2 o'clock, the Freight train bound west and a
soldiers train bound east collided near this place, on the bridge across the
Kaskaskia River, in which there was three men killed and six wounded; below
we give the names, as near as we could ascertain.
KILLED Joseph Houser,
engineer. Residence, St. Louis, Mo. Eugene MILLS, Fireman, Residence Salem,
Ills. One soldier, name and residence unknown.
WOUNDED Zechus GUESS, Engineer. Residence St.
Louis, Mo. And five soldiers. The clearing of the wreck, was superintend by
C. H. HOSKINS, Train Master. |
| HUME, Willie | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, November 19, 1863 Page 2 Column 4 | At the residence of Miles BEVILL, Esq., in this city, Willie, youngest child of Thomas and Margaret Hume, aged 18 months. |
| MACE, Albert | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, October 29, 1863 Page 2, Column 5 | The following is a list of killed and wounded in the late battle of Chickamauga, from Clinton County, as far as received: KILLED: Sergt. Wm. ROPER, Sergt. Wm. M. AUSTIN, Albert Mace, Robert McDONALD. WOUNDED: Major Samuel JOHNSON, Thomas KIRKHAM, Conrad MEIK, Lafayette SMITH, Samuel Smith, John DETIKER, Buel J. BLANTON, Charles ELLING, Frank ADAMS. MISSING: Alexander H. SHARP |
| MADDUX, James O. | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, April 6, 1865 Page 3 Column 2 | March 18th at Bridgeport, Ala., James O. Maddux, son of Isaac and Matilda Maddux, of Clinton Co., Ills. |
| McDONALD, Robert | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, October 29, 1863 Page 2, Column 5 | The following is a list of killed and wounded in the late battle of Chickamauga, from Clinton County, as far as received: KILLED: Sergt. Wm. ROPER, Sergt. Wm. M. AUSTIN, Albert MACE, Robert McDonald. WOUNDED: Major Samuel JOHNSON, Thomas KIRKHAM, Conrad MEIK, Lafayette SMITH, Samuel Smith, John DETIKER, Buel J. BLANTON, Charles ELLING, Frank ADAMS. MISSING: Alexander H. SHARP |
| MILLER, Bob | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, December 24, 1863 Page 2, Column 5 | A NEGRO KILLED We learn that on night before last a negro man by the name of Bob Miller was killed, about seven miles from Carlyle, by another negro man named KILLIAN, The circumstances, as related to us, are as follows: Miller was beating his wife, Killian and one or two more went to her rescue, when a fight ensued, in which Killian shot Miller, killing him instantly. |
| MILLER, John E. | The Union Banner | Thursday, July 2, 1863 Page 3 Column 5 | Died, at Ft. Heiman, Ky., April 28th, 1863, after a short but severe illness, Corporal John E. Miller. He was born in Petry County, Pa., on the 9th day of December, 1844, and entered the military service of his country in July, 1862, in Co. H. 111th Reg. Ill. Vol. Infantry, in the 17th year of his age. Cut down in the prime of his manhood, when his seal and integrity marked him as a true patriot and efficient soldier, his whole mind and attention were absorbed in the cause for which he started out. The cheerful alacrity in obeying every order won the confidence and esteem of his captain and fellow soldiers. We mourn his loss, and will miss him as a beloved brother and son, and now leave him in the hands of Him who is the resurrection and life. - Jacob Miller |
| MILLS, Eugene | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, June 29, 1865 Page 2, Column 3 | On Tuesday night 20th, about 11 1-2 o’clock, the Freight train bound west and a soldiers train bound east collided near this place, on the bridge across the Kaskaskia River, in which there was three men killed and six wounded; below we give the names, as near as we could ascertain. KILLED Joseph HOUSER, engineer. Residence, St. Louis, Mo. Eugene MILLS, Fireman, Residence Salem, Ills. One soldier, name and residence unknown. WOUNDED Zechus GUESS, Engineer. Residence St. Louis, Mo. And five soldiers. The clearing of the wreck, was superintend by C. H. HOSKINS, Train Master. |
| MITCHELL, Mrs. Vingar | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, July 20, 1865 Page 3 Column 3 | Sad Occurrence (The following from a subscriber was received last week, to late for publication) Quite a serious and melancholy occurrence took place on the evening of the 7th inst., at the coal bank at Trenton. The wife of the overseer, Mr. Vingar Mitchell, threw herself and child down the shaft a distance of 165 feet. They were taken out dead, about three-quarters of an hour after the occurrence. The woman having her skull split, but the child not otherwise injured than being drowned. The cause of this rash act cannot be accounted for; other than the unfortunate woman was subject to fits of insanity. |
| NICHOLS, Erastus S. | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, April 13, 1865 Page 3, Column 2 | Died, on March the 29th 1864, of disease contracted in the army, Mr. Erastus S. Nichols, son of O.B. and Sarah Nichols, aged 24 years 2 months and fifteen days. Mr. Nichols had entered the army at the beginning of the Rebellion and served faithful as a soldier. All honor to the memory of the brave. |
| NICHOLS, Erastus S. | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, April 20, 1865 Page 3, Column 3 | The Funeral Sermon of Erastus Nichols will be preached by the Rev. S. D. LOUGHEED at the Presbyterian Church in this place on next Sabbath day April the 23rd, 1865. |
| RANDALL, Charles | The Union Banner | Thursday, July 23, 1863- Page 2, Column 5 | Of Chronic Diarrhea, on his way from Memphis, to his home in this county Charles Randall, son of Capt. A. J. Randall, of this county, of the 117th Regiment of Illinois volunteers. The deceased was a young man of fine promise, and was a member of his father's company. He had started home to try to regain his health, but never reached his destination. He died a few miles above Cairo, on board the steamer on which he had taken passage. Although he was not surrounded by his immediate family in his last illness, yet he received every attention from kind and sympathetic friends in his last moments, and has left behind him an example which it will be well for the young men of our country to imitate. |
| RIVERMAN, Henry | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, October 29, 1863 Page 2, Column 4 | AWFUL CASUALTY NEAR THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI DEPOT At half past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, a lamentable accident occurred on one of the tracks of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, near the Depot, in East St. Louis. Mr. Henry Riverman, a well-known road master, was employed in looking for and picking up scraps of iron from the track, and was walking towards the depot and between the rails. A freight engine and a switch engine were maneuvering near, and the latter came up behind unperceived by him. The "breaks" struck his legs, and he fell with his head over the rail. The wheels of the engine at once passed across his neck, severing his head almost entirely from the trunk. Only a slight remaining portion of the skin prevented the decapitation from being perfect. Scarcely a moment before, Mr. Riverman had been pleasantly conversing with the Master of Trains, Mr. J. L. HINCKLEY. So awfully sudden was the transition from rejoicing life to the desolation of death. Deceased had been six or seven years in the employment of the company, and was generally esteemed. He was thirty-eight years of age, and a resident of Breese, Clinton County, Illinois, where he has left a wife and children. |
| ROPER, Wm. | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, October 29, 1863 Page 2, Column 2 | We have received from Captain McADAMS, the painful intelligence of the death of Sergeant Wm. Roper, of company A, 22nd Regiment, Illinois Volunteers. He was a native of Clinton County, and was well-known to our readers. We have known him long, and knew him well; and a more high minded and honorable man, we have never known. In the midst of the storm of battle, he was the bravest of the brave, and had endeared himself to his comrades by his almost unequaled gallantry. But he is gone, his familiar face will no more be seen amongst us but his memory will long live in the recollection of his friends. Truly we realize that war is a terrible scourge when such bereavements are brought home to us. Sergeant Roper was one of the victims of the terrible battle of Chickamauga. |
| ROPER, Wm. | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, October 29, 1863 Page 2, Column 5 | The following is a list of killed and wounded in the late battle of Chickamauga, from Clinton County, as far as received: KILLED: Sergt. Wm. Roper, Sergt. Wm. M. AUSTIN, Albert MACE, Robert McDONALD. WOUNDED: Major Samuel JOHNSON, Thomas KIRKHAM, Conrad MEIK, Lafayette SMITH, Samuel Smith, John DETIKER, Buel J. BLANTON, Charles ELLING Frank ADAMS. MISSING: Alexander H. SHARP |
| Unknown | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, July 27, 1865 Page 3, Column 2 | Suicide-Disappointed Love A man in the employ of the Trenton Mill Company hung himself on a tree, south-west of Trenton on Thursday evening, the 20th inst. He had been employed by the proprietors of the mill, for the purpose of hauling coal, and had only been in the employ of the company one day. The following day he fed the horses in the morning, and was seen to pass the coal bank about 5 o'clock in the morning, and at about 3 o'clock he was found, hanging to a tree about three quarters of a mile from Trenton. Squire GUYOT held an inquest on the body and the jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the fact that the deceased came to his death by hanging. It is reported that he was keeping company with a lady in Summerfield, and he had heard of her marriage to another person a day or two ago, and this was the cause of this rash act. |
| Unknown | The Weekly Union Banner | Thursday, November 2, 1865 Page 3 Column 2 | A subscriber writes to us from Trenton as follows: "The dead body of an unknown man was found on Friday morning, October 27th, 1865, in the stable of Jacob SIMON, of Trenton, Ill. Deceased was a German by birth, and had landed in this country but a short time since--being old and without money, his efforts to obtain lodging were fruitless--at last weary and exhausted, was compelled to take shelter in the stable where his remains were found. It is supposed Deceased came to his death from debility and exposure. No inquest was held. The people of this part of the county have a singular way of getting along without complying with the law in this respect." |
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