Source is sister Margaret. Philip Learn Knoll was proxy for bap and end.
All: He moved with his parents to Des Moines. Iowa (county) in 1852. He attended country schools in Indiana and Iowa and learned from his father the carpenter and joiner trade. He was a Civil War vet and there are many stories about him in the possession of Art Tibbets of Villa Park , Ca. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War, James enlisted Apr.23, 1861 at the age of 20 at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa in company F, Ist Infantry at the first call of troops in the three months service and was in the battle of Wilson Creek. He was discharged Aug.21, 1861. He re-enlisted Aug.21, 1862 in company K,25th Iowa Infantry. He was made 2nd Sargeant at enrollment. Promoted to 2nd Lt. June 10th 1863, to 1st Lt. on Aug.22 1863. He was discharged June 6, 1865 at the close of the war. He was with General Sherman in his attack on Vicksburg in Nov. 1862. At the battle of Ark. Post, Jan. 11, 1863. and at Raymond where the captain of his company was taken prisoner. He was promoted to 2nd Lt. He was at Champion Hills, Black River Ridge and through the seige of Vicksburg where he was promoted to 1st. Lt.
He was in numerous battles and raids and was taken sick in crossing the country and sent to a hospital in Paducah for a short time, this being his only sickness during his service. He joined his regiment at Chatanooga and in crossing was thrown with Hooker and he served under him at the battle of Lookout Mountain and was in a number of battles and the seige and the capture of Atlanta. After the seige he was one of the lucky ones to draw a furlough. He was with Sherman in his memorable march to the sea, at the capture of Savannah in the march across South Carolina and being on the skirmish line, his regiment was the first to enter Columbia. After the surrender of this city, Lt. Tibbetts was placed in command of the arsenal. He was at the battle of Bentenville, the last battle of the war, then to Raleigh, Richmond and Washington, receiving his preliminary discharge in Wash. June 6th, 1865. (see page 1003, Vol.3,R.I.V.
After the war he returned to Iowa and engaged in farming and other business ventures there until 1873 when he and his wife and child went to Calif., arriving at Marysville( a few miles north of Sacramento)-abt. Oct? He settled in Gridley, Butte co., California where he engaged. Poor food and water accomodations made him ill and he returned to his home in Calif. where he soon recovered. He settled permanently in Los Angeles where he was residing in 1918. The Los Angeles boom had started and he found plenty of work in the building line and the boom continued. He became a general building contractor. During the building boom of Salt Lake City, Utah, he spent two years, (1890-92), in successful building operations in that city. Returning to Los Angeles, he engaged in building and contracting until 1907 when he retired. (See History of Los Angeles Co.,Calif. 1889 edition.) He was a member of the East Gate Lodge #290 Free and accepted Masons of Los Angeles, Calif.
All: William sold his home in Lebanon which he inherited from his father, Benjamin and moved the family to Gouldsborough. He was a soldier in the Revolution, enlisting 11 Sept., 1775. In 1779 he moved his family to Bangor. Being one of the first settlers in this very small town, he was granted two lots of 100 acres each.
All: Sometimes spelled Lurana. She survived her husband William by several years, moving with some of her married children to Indiana in 1816. She died at the home of her son Benjamin in Dearborn county.
All: There is a duplicate Benjamin in Ancestral File with a # VZR3-WB.
All: Duplicate James in Ancestral File,#VZR3-ZN---showing James born abt 1737 at Rochester, Strafford, NH.
All: Ancestral File confusion--Joyce dying in 1698/99 yet she has kids 1700-1707. Someone submitted incomplete data.
All: source is AF Pedigree View page.