{"id":6275,"date":"2017-05-29T12:32:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=6275"},"modified":"2017-05-29T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T22:59:30","slug":"thank-you-hiram-scott-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/thank-you-hiram-scott-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Hiram Scott (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In the first installment of this series<\/a>, I introduced my fourth-great-grandfather, Hiram Scott, who died in New Orleans while serving in the Union Army during\u00a0the U.S. Civil War. This Memorial Day, I want to honor his memory\u00a0by learning as much as I can about him, with a eye towards uncovering\u00a0his birth family\u00a0and his early life. If you haven’t yet read that first post, you should read\u00a0it now<\/a>\u00a0before continuing with this post.<\/p>\n

In this second post in the series, I’ll lay out, examine, and document everything I know about the life of Hiram Scott, so that I’ll have a broad base of information to use when\u00a0evaluating potential\u00a0evidence for Hiram’s early life and birth family.<\/p>\n

I’ll start the examination of Hiram’s life at the very end of his life, where I have the richest evidence.<\/p>\n

From Hiram’s military interment record (shown below\u2014he is listed around the middle of the page as #65), I know that Hiram was buried on April 7, 1865, in grave 89 of plot 36 of\u00a0Monument Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. He had died of chronic diarrhea (=dysentery) in the Barracks\u00a0Hospital in New Orleans the previous day (April 6, 1865), and had been treated for his affliction at Union Hospital number 4896 (presumably the Barracks\u00a0Hospital where he died).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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He was recorded as being 50 years old at the time of his death (so born around 1815), and his birthplace was unhelpfully recorded as “America.”\u00a0At the time of his death, he was a Private in Company E of the Illinois volunteer infantry. He was married and he had enlisted for service in Alden, McHenry County, Illinois. In in interest of completeness, I should note that in the last column (“Remarks”), the following is written:<\/p>\n

G.B. Andrews Alden McHenry Co. Illinois<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Was G.B. Andrews his commanding officer? The person to be notified in case of death? The person to whom Hiram’s effects were given, to be delivered home to his widow? All but one of the other entries that have\u00a0names in this column share the same last name with the deceased:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Number<\/strong><\/td>\nDeceased<\/strong><\/td>\nName in Remarks<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
43<\/td>\nRobert Campbell<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nJames M. Campbell<\/strong><\/em>, Georgetown Tenn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
45<\/td>\nWilliam W. Rizer<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nMr. H. Rizer<\/strong><\/em>, Colesburgh Delaware Co. Iowa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
47<\/td>\nGlauville Simpson<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nMrs.\u00a0Simpson<\/strong><\/em>, Benton P.O. Illinois<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
48<\/td>\nThaddeus L. Wood<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nThaddeus Wood<\/strong><\/em>, Washville Franklin Co. Mass.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
59<\/td>\nHenry Brickman<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nCaspar Brickman<\/strong><\/em>, Hanover, Ind.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
65<\/span><\/td>\nHiram Scott<\/span><\/td>\nG.B. Andrews,\u00a0Alden McHenry Co. Illinois<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
66<\/td>\nJ.M. Cawron<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nDavid Cawron<\/strong><\/em>, Baville, Illinois<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
67<\/td>\nJohn Serriath<\/td>\nJefferson Jeut, Topeka Kansas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
68<\/td>\nGeorge Thompson<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nLevi Thompson<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0Paunald Centre [?]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
77<\/td>\nThomas Maynard<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nJennie Maynard<\/strong><\/em>, Wheeling Ind.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
78<\/td>\nWilliam Vanalstine<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nMr. H. Vanalstine<\/strong><\/em>, Inn Valley Adams Co. Wisc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This similarity in names, as well as the presence of two women’s names among those listed in the remarks column, effectively rules out the possibility of the name in remarks being a commanding officer. It would seem that\u00a0G.B. Andrews was someone with a personal connection to Hiram Scott\u2014perhaps the person to\u00a0collect Hiram’s\u00a0effects, or to be notified of Hiram’s death.<\/p>\n

From Hiram’s entry in the general index for pension files, we see that his widow’s name was Mary Scott, and that she filed for widow’s benefits on May 23, 1865, about six weeks after Hiram’s death:<\/p>\n

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From Mary Scott’s pension application (the pages of which are shown in this post<\/a>), we learn a number of facts:<\/p>\n