Civil War Pensioners in Defiance County - 1884 - Defiance - Part 2

                                             Part 2, Defiance Pensioners              

                                                         "PENSIONERS

A List of Wounded and Disabled Soldiers in Defiance County

Below is a list of persons in Defiance County who were on the pension list of the United States, January 1, 1884, together with their injuries and the amounts they received."

The Defiance County Express, January 17, 1884, pg. 16

VanSkiver, Alvaro, wounded left hand, $6.00

Yeager, Absalom, wounded knee, $4.00

Mitchell, Martin V. B., wounded left thigh, $4.00

Block, Franklin, wounded left arm, $2.00

Speister, Christian, wounded 1 foot, $6.00

Marihugh, Henry, wounded left arm, $6.00

Shirley, Stephen M. , wounded left ankle, $14.00

Winterstein, James, wounded left shoulder, $8.00

Hofferd, Wilson S, wounded in breast, $8.00

Stephens, Daniel, wounded left shoulder, $2.00

William Black was the youngest soldier on record to be wounded in the War Between the States.  He was shell shot in his left hand and arm in 1865.

Daniels, Henry, wounded left arm, $6.00

Ackerman, Louis, wounded left foot, $3.00

Bogart, Jesse W., wounded left shoulder, $6.00

Conrad, Frederick, wounded left leg, $8.00

Lewis, Jonathon, wounded left leg, $4.00

Viall, Benjamin, wounded left and right legs, $12.00

Schmeck, Henry, wounded right thigh, $6.00

Hahn, Charles, wounded right hand, $14.00

Krouse, Theo, wounded right arm, $8.00

Anderson, David W., wounded right forearm, $6.00

Gleason, David A., wounded right leg, $20.00

Grubb, Isaac N. Wounded right leg, $8.00

Carpenter, Lyman loss of right forearm, $18.00

Helpman, Perry E., wounded in body, $8.00

Corzellius, Peter, wound on face, $1.00

Between 1880 and 1910, the U.S. government continued to modify pension payments, forming a sort of grading system on the amount received depending on injury, rank, and time served.  Eventually, those soldiers awarded $8 could hire an attorney and place an appeal for more money.  In 1896, President Theodore Roosevelt passed an Executive Order stating that old age was a disability and any Union soldier over 62 should receive a pension.

Cary, Robert, urethra and bladder, $24.00

Gilts Peter, wounded jaw, $2.00

Miller, Johnson, wounded left eye, $2.00

Culley, Frank C., injury to abdomen, $8.00

Day, Eli H., chronic diarrhea, disease in the eyes, $17.00

Dyarman, Orlando, chronic diarrhea and disease of the abdomen, $8.00

Karnes, Elijah, chronic diarrhea, $7.50

Scheaffer, Henry B., chronic diarrhea and disease of the abdomen $8.00

Lockwood, Reuben, chronic diarrhea, $4.00

Myers, Benjamin F., injury of right knee, $4.00

Sieren, Peter, injured back, $2.00

Romine, Uriah W., disease in left shoulder, $4.00

Adams, Caleb H., ulceration of the eye,$8.00

Thrailkill, Richard H., ___, $3.00

Smith, Andrew, scurvy, $8.00

King, Silvester, pthisis pul, $18.00  (pthisis = pulmonary tuberculosis)

Ankney, Joshua, wounded face, $6.00

Bayes, James, loss of distal phalax of right little finger, $1.00

Mansfield, Johiel, disease of the eyes, $12.00

Randall, Felix, disease of the eyes, $6.00

Elliott, Emory B., wound right leg __

Feger, Henry F., erysipelis, injury to left foot, $4.00 (erysipelis = bacterial skin infection)

Winnie, Magdaline, widow, $8.00

*Part 3 will list Hicksville and Hicksville Township's pensioners.