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On 1 December 1864 in Brunswick, Missouri, seventeen-year-old William Lake volunteered for a one year enlistment. He was assigned to the 49th Missouri Infantry. Being a minor, Lake was required to have permission to enlist. His mother, Sharlett[sic] Lake, made her mark on the permission form. Lake’s father was alive and well on 1 December […]
There’s a military service stone in the Elliott Grove Cemetery in Chariton County, Missouri, for an Elzy Lake. Based upon its appearance, it’s been in the cemetery for some time and has seen its fair share of exposure to the weather. The tombstone picture used in this post was not taken by me. It was […]
I’m pretty certain it indicates that Elzy Lake served in the “Forty-ninth Infantry, I-Mi.” And I’m not understanding why Ancestry.com in its “Union Soldier’s Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865” thought it necessary to truncate the name of the state from which the individual served. Because this makes it look like Elzy served from Michigan. I thought the days […]
Civil War pension files can contain a variety of information. The one for William Lake (Co.I, 49th Missouri Infantry) contains a copy of his family’s 1860 census transcription. Too bad I had already located them in the 1860 census, but a transcription from 1915 by the Department of Commerce (who used to oversee the census) […]
