Seek Un-enlisted, under-age drummer who died in Civil War
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Re: Seek Un-enlisted, under-age drummer who died in Civil War
| Kathleen (View posts) | Posted: 30 Jul 2005 9:19PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Hamler/Homler/Homlar/Hambler/Hombler
**Thanks** for the wealth of information! **Many** thanks!
I have sent for all of my G-Uncles' Pension records; received all 3 (plus their cousin Abner Hamler's Pension Record) but Washington D.C. reported that they had no record of Elisha/Elijah Hamler/Homler.
And my Dad's "Uncle Lige" was the only Civil War service that my father heard first-hand about from his father, Cornelius Hamler (1850-1913). (Dad didn't know any of his uncles personally.) (Cornelius was the last of 10 children and my father was the last of Cornelius's children, being born in 1908.)
So, my father was obviously very young when his father told him about Uncle Lige going to war as an under-age drummer but it seemed to be indelible on his memory. (There was no mention of Elijah's death in the Civil War but I can't find him in any Census after 1860 while I have information about all 6 Hamler brothers in northern New Jersey until their deaths as old men. Can't find Elijah Hamler's name in the Census for the whole USA after 1860, though there is a very large smudged spot on the Sussex County Census in 1865. Someone suggested to me that he might have made it home to be in that Census.)
I appreciate all this new information...
Kathleen Hamler Purchase
LPurch6636@aol.com
I have sent for all of my G-Uncles' Pension records; received all 3 (plus their cousin Abner Hamler's Pension Record) but Washington D.C. reported that they had no record of Elisha/Elijah Hamler/Homler.
And my Dad's "Uncle Lige" was the only Civil War service that my father heard first-hand about from his father, Cornelius Hamler (1850-1913). (Dad didn't know any of his uncles personally.) (Cornelius was the last of 10 children and my father was the last of Cornelius's children, being born in 1908.)
So, my father was obviously very young when his father told him about Uncle Lige going to war as an under-age drummer but it seemed to be indelible on his memory. (There was no mention of Elijah's death in the Civil War but I can't find him in any Census after 1860 while I have information about all 6 Hamler brothers in northern New Jersey until their deaths as old men. Can't find Elijah Hamler's name in the Census for the whole USA after 1860, though there is a very large smudged spot on the Sussex County Census in 1865. Someone suggested to me that he might have made it home to be in that Census.)
I appreciate all this new information...
Kathleen Hamler Purchase
LPurch6636@aol.com