Miscellaneous Shelby County Civil War Items
  
veterans living in 1935 | letter from Martinsville, WV | bio of Harry P. Denmark (Sailor)
bounty notice | red chair social | taps for Sylvester Boyle
 
 
Civil War Veterans that were still living in Shelby county, OH on Memorial Day, 1935.
 
 
Sylvester Boyle, 92 yrs
Jacob Coffman, 93 yrs
Asa H. Kite, 91 yrs
Barney Forshutt, 87 yrs
Byron W. Joslin, 90 yrs
William Moyer, 96 yrs
Johnathan Lewis, 98 yrs
 
 
 
The following letter was found in the Martinsville, West Virginia Courthouse, Deed Book #59.  On page 91 is this letter (the spelling has not been changed):
 
If I ever live to get home I have no doubt but what I will
enjoy myself fine.  But I am afraid that time is a long way
off yet.  And perhaps will never come.  But I will live in
hopes as long as I do live.  Life is uncertain and death is
shure.  But I hope I will be spaired to return home once
again and enjoy the comforts of life.
 
So Nothing more from
 
A. Baker
   23 NC Troops, Co. F
 
On page 149 of the same volume is:
 
Here we are a long ways from home and nothing to
eat....(writing on the latter is very dim.)
 
 
 
From The Sidney Daily News July 20 1989
 
Harry P. Denmark
(1830-1907)
 
HARRY P. DENMARK was a black sailor during the Civil War aboard the ship, U.S.S. Itaska.  He served 3 years in the navy and was in the Battle of Mobile Bay August 5, 1864.  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he learned the barber trade, Harry P. came to Shelby County ca 1880 and settled in Sidney ca 1892.  He married Nancy Pointer of Lima, Ohio and they had seven children: Franklin "Dick", Nellie, Minnie, Hattie, Martha, Harry, and Flint.  In July 1906, after a stroke, Harry P. entered the National Soldier's Home in Dayton, Ohio where he died a year later.  His widow, Nancy donated the front of the Denmark home place on Park Street for the Mount Vernon Baptist Church to be built.
 
 
 
From The Sidney Weekly Journal April 15, 1870 in the Classified Section.
 

Soldiers who enlisted between May 5 and July 28, 1891, to serve three years, and were discharged by Surgeon's Certificate, will learn something to their advantage by calling us.  M.C. Hale, Sidney.

 
 
 
From The Sidney Journal Gazette  12 October 1906
 
A red chair social was given by the old soldiers, in honor of Rev. Gallant and wife last Thursday.  A very interesting time was manifested by all who attended.  Rev. and Mrs. Gallant were both presented with a chair.  Some very interesting speeches were made by Emert, Ginn, McCally, Pool, Swim and Yost.  Some very fine music was rendered by Mrs. Dr. McKinney of Port Jefferson.  The following comrads were present: Elisha Yost, J. W. Slagle, P.L. Frazier, J.S. Jackson, A.J. DeWeese, S.S. Wyrick, W.H. Gallant, M.A. LeFever, J.F. Emert, David Richey, Geo. Cleckner, Wm. McCalley, Norman Key, John Key, Elisha Harbour, I.N. Randall, Eli Abbot, John Bruns, S. Denning, D. Pool, D. Swim, B.F. Wooddell, J. Geuse, Joseph Stewart, John Knoop, Jacob McMaster, S.D. Quilen, F. Zook.
 
 
 
From The Sidney Daily News March 25, 1939
 
Taps sounded at noon today for another old soldier of the Grand Army of the Republic, when Sylvester Boyle answered the final summons in the home of his daughter, Mrs. C.H. Ginn, on South Ohio avenue.  The aged veteran of the Civil War was in his 96th year of life.  With his passing, there are but two old soldiers remaining in the Shelby County ranks of boys in blue who fought in the Civil War.  They are: Comrade Byron Joslin and Comrade Voskul.
 
 
 
 
Information was gathered from the following sources:
Shelbyana Issue #25 - October 1985
Shelbyana Issue #63 - April 1995
 
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