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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][7][8][9] |
Hugh E. Linn |
Gender |
Male |
Birth[1][7][8][9] |
19 Apr 1835 |
Perry, Pennsylvania, United States |
Census[3] |
1850 |
Bethel, Fulton, Pennsylvania, United States15y, Labourer, with parents Charles and Martha and 5 siblings. Attended school that year. |
Marriage |
11 Nov 1858 |
Clearville, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United Statesto Catherine Von Stein |
Census[4] |
1860 |
Monroe, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States25 y with wife Catherine 20y, and child Martha 1y. Lived next door to Hugh’s uncle Hugh. E., his wife Anne and their 11 children. |
Military[2][6] |
From 1862 to 1863 |
Camp Curtin, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United StatesPrivate, 171st Pennsylvania Infantry (Drafted Militia) Regiment, Company I. |
Census[5] |
1880 |
Monroe, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States45y Farmer, with wife Catherine R. 41y and children Jennie M. 20y, George Mc Linn 17y, James H. 13y and Mary G. 9y. |
Occupation[6] |
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Monroe, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United StatesWorked in tanneries and was a farmer. |
Death[1][6][9][10] |
Bef 8 May 1891 |
Pennsylvania, United Statesprobably Huntingdon County; death date estimated by widow's pension application date |
Burial[10] |
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probably Huntingdon County |
Military Service
Hugh E. Linn was drafted into a Pennsylvania regiment and served nine months in the Civil War, 171st Pennsylvania Infantry (Drafted Militia) Regiment, Company I.S2 [The biography for Jesse Fletcher Means (husband of Hugh’s eldest daughter Jennie) stated Hugh had volunteered and served eighteen monthsS6, however the record shows he was instead drafted, and served nine. One source lists Hugh’s company as E, when in fact the company is I.S2 He was mustered in 2 Nov 1862 and mustered out with his company on 8 Aug 1863.
Hugh and (after his death) widow Catherine applied for and evidently received pensions. The Pension Index card lists him as "Hugh Lynn," 171st PA Infantry. The widow is listed as "Catharine R. Lynn." Soldier's pension number: 496929. Widow's pension number: 342116.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ancestral file : Original submission sheets.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bates, Samuel P. 171st Pennsylvania Infantry Soldier Roster Vol. 4.
- ↑ Fulton, Pennsylvania, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule.
- ↑ Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule.
- ↑ Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Jessie Fletcher Means biography, in History of Cherokee County, Iowa, Vol. II.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Linn, George Wilds. The Clan Linn: A history of a fragment of the clan Linn and a genealogy of the Linn and related families. (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: G.W. Linn, 1905 (Lebanon, Pa. : Report Print.)).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Layman, Loretta. Loretta Layman tree.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 76021528, in Find A Grave.
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