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| Union Soldier MCINTOSH, Matthew |
County Died: Cedar Co., MO Cemetery: Anna Edna Cemetery, Jerico Springs, Cedar Co., MO Deceased: MCINTOSH, Matthew Birth: Jul 5, 1843 Pittsburgh, PA Age: 81 Death: Apr. 7, 1925 Jerico Springs, Cedar Co., MO Cause: Married: 1) Elizabeth Ann Lenhart, 2) Margaret Elizabeth Park Married When & Where: 1) abt 1867 Allegheny Co., PA 2) Feb. 8, 1880, Sylvania, Dade Co., MO Father: James Waddell McIntosh, born Killingworth Colliery, Northumberland, England Mother: Elizabeth Bradwell, born Middleton In Teesdale, County Durham, England Military Information: Company I 155th PA Infantry and Battery F US Artillery, Private, Union Death Certificate Number: 11111 (not a joke it is 5 ones) Resource: census records, pension record, BLM land record, marriage record, family lore Research Note: Matthew's pension record was very informative. It includes a letter from a neighbourhood friend and former tent mate from the civil War. It also shows that he had lost thumb in Fox's Coal Mine at Pittsburgh, PA in 1860. That he had been Number One(in the Confederate Army the Number One man ran the ramrod) on a gun at the Battle of Chappins Farm, VA and had been found the next morning under a gun in the mud and water more dead then alive. **Matthew came to Barry Co. in about 1873 with his parents and siblings. His first wife, Elizabeth Lenhart died about 1878 in Barry Co. burial place unknown. In 1883 a Matthew McIntosh took out homestead in Barry Co. In 1883 he was also in Barton Co. MO. He also was in the National Home For Disabled Veterans, Leavenworth, Kansas in 1918. Matthew never appeared in a census record for Barry Co. Military Information: Company I 155th PA Infantry and Battery F 5th US Artillery, Private, Union |
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