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Nicholas MUSS |
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105th Illinois Volunteers Infantry, Co J |
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Enlisted |
Aug. 15, 1862 Cotage Hills Ill. |
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Discharged |
Feb. 19, 1863 Bowling Green Ky |
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Height |
5'4 |
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Complexion |
light |
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Hairs |
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Eyes |
blue |
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Born |
about 1836 |
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Parents |
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Married |
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Death |
March 29, 1915 at Nat. Mil. Home Wis. |
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Children |
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Occupation |
farmer |
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Biography :
Nicholas Muss from Addison:
105 Illinois Infantry; enlisted August 15, 1862 at Cottage Hill, Illinois;
mustered September 2, 1862; discharged February 19, 1863 at Bowling Green,
Kentucky, for disability. When entering the Home in July 1912, he stated being
76 y.o., a farmer, living in East St Louis, Illinois, a widower, suffering of
Potts disease (tuberculosis' spondylitis).
Nicholas Muss or Moose was born in May 1836 and emigrated about 1860, and the first trace I found of him in Indiana, Henry County, a railroad worker. He was married in 1871 with Catherine (Shay?) born Indiana from Irish parents. They settled in Saint Clair Co., Illinois were Nicholas gave as his occupation "rail roading" in the 1880 census. In 1900 he was a street laborer in East St Louis. They had a lot of children: Michel(1871) and Mary(1873) born in Indiana, William(1875) and Catherine(1877) born in Kentucky, the others born in Illinois: Joseph(1881), Edward(1884), Helen(1893), Gertrude(1896), Frances(1899). Catharine stated having had 12 children, 9 being still living in 1900. The Home papers said Nicholas Muss was dropped from role in March 1914 but in his pension index file, it is stated that he died March 29, 1915 at the National Military Home, Wisconsin but is death is not mentioned in the Home records and he is not buried in the Home cemetery.
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| 1890 July 19 | Invalid | 857820 | 807048 | |
Sources :
Northwestern Branch of the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
