91st PA??: Reading Emmons

Reading Emmons

Before the war

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]

During the war

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).

After the war

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).

Sources

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)

Sources checked unsuccessfully

Bates, Samuel Penniman. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, 1861-5. Harrisburg: B. Singerly, state printer, 1869-71. 5 volumes. 'Ninety-first regiment', volume 3, pages 186-233
[no reference in the 91st]

1880 census

[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]
line9
street nameMaine Avenue
house number[26]
dwelling visit #[26]
family visit #[26]
nameEmmons Reading
colorW
sexM
age59
month born if born in year 
relationshipBeneficiary Natl Home for D.V.S.
single 
married 
widowed/divorced1
married during year 
occupationFarm Laborer
months unemployed12
currently ill? 
blind 
deaf/dumb 
idiotic 
insanev
disabled1
school this year 
can't read 
can't write 
birthplaceNew Jersey
father's birthplaceNew Jersey
mother's birthplaceNew Jersey

index to compiled service records

[index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Pennsylvania]
[transcribed 1 February 2015, from Fold3]


Emmons Reading
Co. E, 82 Pennsylvania Inf.
Pvt | Pvt
See also 23" Pa Inf

GENERAL INDEX CARD.


[card 2, transcribed 1 February 2015]

Emmons, Reading
Co. F, E, 23 Pennsylvania Inf.
Pvt | Pvt
See also 82 Pa. Vols.

GENERAL INDEX CARD.

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