Stoner, John H.

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• Residence: 1860, Clearspring Twp., Lagrange, Indiana, USA

Notes:

John H Stoner, of Co. H, enrolled Oct. 15, 1861 in LaGrange by Capt. Bingham as a Musician; mustered in Nov. 22, 1861 in Ft. Wayne by Lt. Stansbury at age 33. He was 6ft 2 tall, light complexion, blue eyes, and dark hair. Born Nov. 18, 1814 in Johnstown, NY, employed as a blacksmith, married to Mrs. Caroline Ann Gilkinson Putnam, resident of Haw Patch (now Topeka), in LaGrange Co., IN. Discharged Aug. 10, 1863, for chronic diarrhea lasting more than one year in Murfreesboro, TN with rank of Musician. Notes: Fifer. Sent to Evansville Hospital Jan. 1862, for chronic diarrhea and rejoined regiment in Battle Creek, TN, Aug. 20, 1862. Unable to perform even light duty and sent to General Hospital in Louisville, KY, Sep. 29, 1862 for chronic diarrhea and then entered Hospital #1 in Evansville, IN, Oct. 17, 1862, for dysentery. Returned to Regiment Jun. 1863, and again sent to General Hospital Jun. 27, 1863, for chronic diarrhea. Sent home with his wife about Sep. 1, 1863 and died Sep. 28, 1863, in Clearspring in LaGrange Co., IN, of disease leaving wife and 5 children; buried Eden Cemetery Row 36/Lot 9. Caroline A. Stoner filed Widowfs Pension Application to receive Widowfs Pension Certificate #50753 Jan. 27, 1864; Carolina A. Ayres (she married John G. Ayers Sep. 1869 and divorced him Nov. 1885), guardian, filed Minorfs Pension Application to receive Minorfs Pension Certificate #141886 Mar. 14, 1870. Caroline married John Ayres 1869. (/M/Stouer) Taken from The Iron Men of Indianafs 44th Regiment, Part 1: Biographies and Regimental Statistics by Margaret Hobson.

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Headstone was replaced at Eden Cemetery July 3, 2014

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John H Stoner

Residence: Hawpatch, Indiana Occupation: Enlisted as a Musician on 22 November 1861

Service Record: Enlisted in Company H, 44th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 22 November 1861, Received a disability discharge on 10 August 1863
Source: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana. (INRoster), Published in 1865-66 by Holloway
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Musician in 44th Indiana Militia, Company H, Union Army. Contacted "chronic diarrhea" during the taking of Ft. Donelson about 18 Feb. 1862, Hospitalized at Evansville, returned to his company at Battle Creek, TN about 20 Aug 1862, and then returned to the hospital at Louisville, KY. Medical discharge 1 Sept 1863, and returned home to pass away about 4 weeks later.

Physician's Affidavit, Civil War Pension Records:

"I hereby certify that John Stover a musician in Company H 44th Reg't Ind Vol whilst in the Service of the United States and in the line of his duty, cotracted an illnes whilst at the taking of Ft. Donelson on or about the 18th of Feb 1862 and which caused his removal to Hospital in Evansville Ind on or about the 1st of Jan (sic ??) 1862. He afterwards rejoind his Reg't at Battle Creek Tenn on or about the 20th of August 1862 and was so feeble from the effects of his disease "Chronic Diarrhea" as to be unable to perform even light duty, and was again sent to Hospital in Louisville Ky on or about the 18th of October 1862, from thence was sent to Gen'l Hospital at Evansville Ind and was at no time after able to rejoin his company, was brought from Murfreesboro Tenn to his home in LaGrange County & State of Indiana on or about the 1st of September 1863 and died from said disease on the 28th of September 1863 the said Stoner was however discharged at Murfreesboro Tenn on or about the 1st of September 1863.

Joseph H. Wamseur (??)
Late Capt., Co H, 44th Reg't Ind Vol"

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Name: John H Stoner ,
Residence: Hawpatch, Indiana
Enlistment Date: 22 November 1861
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Indiana
Unit Numbers: 595 595
Service Record: Enlisted as a Musician on 22 November 1861
Enlisted in Company H, 44th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 22 November 1861.
Received a disability discharge Company H, 44th Infantry Regiment Indiana on 10 August 1863

Souce: Historical Data Systems, comp. Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999-. Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, MA from the following list of works.
Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 - Historical Data Systems Inc.P.O. Box 196 Kingston, MA 02364
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Regimental History
Forty-fourth Infantry INDIANA
(3-YEARS)

Forty-fourth Infantry. Cols., Hugh B. Reed, William C. Williams, Simeon C. Aldrich, James F. Curtis, Lieut.-Cols., Baldwin J. Crosswait Sanford J. Stoughton, Simeon C. Aldrich, Joseph C. Hodges, James F. Curtis, Philip Grund; Majs., Sanford J. Stoughton, William B. Bingham, Charles F. Kinney, William M. Wiles, Joseph C. Hodges, Tames P. Curtis, James W. Burch.

This regiment was organized at Fort Wayne, was mustered in Oct. 24, 1861, and left the state in December for Henderson, Ky. It was assigned to Cruft's brigade and ordered into camp at Calhoun, where it remained until Feb. 1862, when it was sent to Fort Henry, thence to Fort Donelson, participating in the siege and battle at the latter point.

It was engaged both days at Shiloh, losing 33 killed and 177 wounded, was in the siege of Corinth, engaged in several skirmishes, and joined in the pursuit of the enemy as far as Booneville. It was with Buell's army in its movement through Alabama and Tennessee, and in pursuit of Bragg through Kentucky, being engaged at the battle of Perryville.

It was in the battle of Stone's River, losing 8 killed, 52 wounded and 25 missing, and then encamped at Murfreesboro until spring, moving with Rosecrans to Chattanooga via McMinnville, Bridgeport, Shell Mound and Whiteside. It participated at Chickamauga, and fought again at Missionary Ridge, losing in the two battles 3 killed, 59 wounded and 20 missing, after which it was assigned to provost duty at Chattanooga.

It reenlisted in Jan., 1864, and visited home on furlough, resumed provost duty at Chattanooga, was mustered out Sept. 14, 1865, returning home with 30 officers and 670 men, of whom 360 were recruits transferred in July from the 68th and 72nd Ind.

The original strength was 933; gain by recruits, 1,050;
reenlistments, 220; total, 2,203. Loss by death, 249,
desertion, 65; unaccounted for, 102.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 3

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From "Genealogy of the Coffinberry Family" by Beatrice Berman Scott, 1927.
The original source of data the book called upon was the Caroline Stoner
family bible, in possession of Elizabeth Stoner Niles of Mancelona,
Michigan.

p. 44

CAROLINE ANN Gilkison was born October 31, 1824. Married John Putman. He lived about a year. Her second marriage was to John Stoner of New York.
Five children were born of this union: William. Lucia Hellen. Florence Estelle. James Clinton. Mary Elizabeth. John Stoner was a musician in the Civil War (Played the fife). He was taken sick, the disease became chronic and he was sent to the hospital at Murfreesboro, Tenn. His wife went there after him and he lived twenty-eight days after reaching home. In 1869 she married John Canousan Ayers.

(1) William Stoner died in infancy.
(2) Lucia Hellen Stoner was born June 23, 1853. Married Henery (sic) Hervey
on June 23 1869. (died in 1888). There were eight children born of this
union:
Aidance Estell
John Willard
James Chester
Joel
Clifford Garfield (!!!)
Zulu (sic) Zon
Sankey
Bertha

Aidance Estelle Hervey married Charles Starr and they have two boys.
Clifford Hervey died young (!!! we didn't know about this one!!!)
Joel Hervey ---------
Sankey Hervey --------. Has a son and daughter. Lives in Washington
John Williard (sic) Hervey ----------.
James Chester -----------.
Bertha Hervey married James L. Napier. They have four children: Virgil,
Alice, Louis, ouise.
Zulu (sic) Zon Hervey married Lawrence Falen. Children: Edna, Amy, Wilma,
Ruth. Edna Falen married J. Kenneth Weaver May 9, 1926. Wilma Falen (School
teacher). Amy Falen married John Young, March, 1926, and they have one
child, born in Novermber 1926. Ruth Falen, age six years.

(3) Florence Estelle Stoner, daughter of Caroline Ann Gilkison, was born
August 22, 1855. Married June 2 1875, Joseph Burkholder. Their two adopted
children are Benjamin and Alice. Benjamin married Lauretta Baer.

(4) James Clinton Stoner was born December 23, 1858. Married in the fall of
18--, Miss Sarah Swan. They adopted four children: Howard, Leon Byrd, Olive
and Harold, who died aged two and one=half years.

(5) Mary Elizabeth Stoner was born December 1, 1860. Married June 13, 1885,
Thomas Ellverton Niles. No children.

Research Note:

John Stoner may possibly be the John Stoner, Sone of Jerimiah Stoner shown in the 1850 Fulton Co., NY Census.

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Message Board text from Liz Osborn:

Thank you for responding, Darrah. I wish our family records were so clear regarding the connection. Right now, it is only a theory; I suspect that one way or the other, we're descended from Henry Stoner, father of Nicholas and John. The question is: through which son? Either one would be fine with me, I'm not stuck on a particular one.

Our evidence that points to this particular Stoner family (as opposed to any other) is rather circumstantial, but persuasive: first, John was a fifer, second, he was married in Gloversville, and third, his pension papers and census records corroborate that he was born in New York. The marriage location was a key factor in suggesting the John/Nicholas connection, because from what we can tell, he had to have met his wife Caroline Gilkison in either Michigan or Indiana. Caroline was first married to a Putman, who likewise was from Fulton County; she was widowed very young. She appears on the 1850 census, as a widow, in her parents' home in St. Joseph County, Michigan. But by October 1850, she was wed to John Stoner in Gloversville, New York (information from her Civil War widow's pension file). And by 1853, she and John had returned to the next county south from her parents: Lagrange, Indiana, where John apparently bought a significant quantity of land. It is purely an argument-strengthening bonus that our John is, like the Stoner brothers, a military musician.

I have observed that there is a great deal of confusion over just who is whose son among John and Nicholas (sons of Henry). I have attempted to carefully trace the various descendants through time using the censuses, trying to identify and eliminate "John"s as potential ancestors of mine (why oh why couldn't they have used more unusual names!).

Chances are we've been communicating with the same cousins. Here is what I have for children of Nick & John:

Nick Stoner & Anna Mason:

Mary Stoner (1783- ) (married William MILLS)
John Stoner (1789-1865) (Married Jane CUDDEBACK)
??? Stoner
Jeremiah Stoner (1874-1884) (Married Sarah ???)
Obadiah Stoner (1801- )
Catherine Stoner (1802 - )

John & Susanna Philes

Jacob Stoner (1787-1859) (married Catherine Schoolcraft, Elizabeth Reinhardt)
John Stoner (1790 - ) (married Elizabeth Linkefelter)
Henry Stoner (1796-1846) (married Susan Wainright)
Catherine Ann Stoner (?- ) (married Patrick Archibald)
??? Stoner (? - )

Considering the next generation (and keeping in mind that I'm looking for a John Stoner born between 1815 and 1830), here are all the John Stoners:

John (Nicholas, Henry) Stoner & Jane Cuddeback's son John is born in the right time period, 1825. However he is known to have married Mary Jane Mabbett, and had children Clarence and Florence during the time that my John was in the Union Army.

Jacob (John, Henry) Stoner & Elizabeth Reinhardt's son John is born in 1818; however he is known to have died in 1876.

Two Johns remain yet unproven one way or the other:

John (John, Henry) Stoner & Elizabeth Linkefelter's son John is close to the correct time period, born in 1814. As a matter of fact, this is the connection preferred by my brother, who has included this connection in his Rootsweb.com family tree. However, I have my doubts, because this John would have been about 45 when enlisting in the Army as a musician; further, the 1860 census record which is known to be of our John gives his age as 33.

Jeremiah (Nicholas, Henry) Stoner & Sarah ???'s son John was born approximately 1829. He appears in the 1850 census as a 21 year old in Jeremiah's household. In a previous census, Jeremiah lived in the neighborhood of a Putman family that apparently did move to southeastern Michigan sometime in the 1840's. This is my preferred suspect for our ancestor.

If you can shed any further light on this mess, I'd be quite interested. Thank you.

Buried:
Eden Cemetery

John married Gilkison, Caroline Ann on 30 Oct 1850 in Gloversville, Fulton Co., New York, USA. Caroline (daughter of Gilkison, James M. and Coffinberry, Nancy) was born on 31 Oct 1824 in Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, USA; died on 10 Apr 1911 in Mancelona, Antrim, Michigan, USA; was buried on 13 Apr 1911 in Mancelona, Antrim, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
(Formally Montgomery Co.)

1. Stoner, William was born before 1853.
2. Stoner, Lucia Ellen was born on 23 Jun 1853 in Indiana, USA; died on 26 Feb 1890 in Concordia, Cloud, Kansas, USA; was buried in Concordia, Cloud, Kansas, USA.
3. Stoner, Florence Estelle was born on 22 Aug 1855 in Indiana, USA; died on 2 Jun 1934 in Mancelona Twp., Antrim Co., Michigan, USA; was buried in Mancelona, Antrim, Michigan, USA.
4. Stoner, James Clinton was born on 23 Dec 1858 in Indiana, USA; died on 26 Mar 1937 in Olympia, Thurston, Washington; was buried in Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington, United States of America.
5. Stoner, Mary Elizabeth was born on 1 Dec 1860 in Indiana, USA; died in 1941; was buried in Mancelona, Antrim, Michigan, USA.