The Reading Emmons who died in the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was born about 1822, in New York (3, 4 [59 in 1880, b. NJ]
According to the pension indices, Reading Emmons served in company H of the 91st Pennsylvania (1, 7).
According to the National Military Home register, he served from 2 August 1861 to 23 December 1863 as a private in company F of the 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry (3, 6 [E and F]). He then served from 26 December 1863 to 13 July 1865 as a private in company E of the 82nd Pennsylvania Infantry (3, 5).
In 1878, Reading Emmons was admitted to the Central Branch of the National Soldiers Home (3).
On 14 February 1880, Sarah Emmons, the mother of the Reading Emmons in the pension indices, apparently unsuccessfully (1, 7).
In 1880, Reading Emmons was living in the Central Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (4). He was a farm laborer, but had been unemployed for 12 months in the previous year (4).
Reading Emmons died on 20 January 1883 (2, 3). He was buried in the Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio (2).
1 pension index, by regiment, 91st PA Infantry, company H (Reading Emmons)
2 Find a grave memorial 623811, imported from US Veteran's Affairs, 25 February 2000, viewed 7 March 2011 (Reading Emmons)
3 National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Dayton Ohio, register E, image 157 of 1429 on Ancestry (Reading Emmons)
4 1880 US census, Ohio, Montgomery County, National Military Home, supervisor's district 2, enumeration district 169, microfilm series T9, film 1052, page 614 = 60 D handwritten
5 index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Pennsylvania (Reading Emmons)
6 index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Pennsylvania (Reading Emmons)
7 pension index, by name (Reading Emmons)
line | 9 |
street name | Maine Avenue |
house number | [26] |
dwelling visit # | [26] |
family visit # | [26] |
name | Emmons Reading |
color | W |
sex | M |
age | 59 |
month born if born in year | |
relationship | Beneficiary Natl Home for D.V.S. |
single | |
married | |
widowed/divorced | 1 |
married during year | |
occupation | Farm Laborer |
months unemployed | 12 |
currently ill? | |
blind | |
deaf/dumb | |
idiotic | |
insane | v |
disabled | 1 |
school this year | |
can't read | |
can't write | |
birthplace | New Jersey |
father's birthplace | New Jersey |
mother's birthplace | New Jersey |