I have just returned from a business trip in California and can now resume the story of our Civil War ancestor Salathiel Timmons – I feel like I left everyone hanging! As we learned in the last post, Salathiel’s regiment spent the winter of 1862-1863 protecting Union supply trains in Tennessee. In March of 1863, […]
Annie Rademacher’s dad: Joseph Burkey
Last time we noted that Joe Rademacher had married Anna “Annie” Burkey sometime between 1900 and 1910. Annie’s parents were Joseph Burkey and Ottilia Winkler. We know quite a bit about both the Burkey and the Winkler families. Today, let’s start with the Burkeys. It might come as a surprise to many readers that Burkey […]
Rademacher Family, 1910
By the time the 1910 Census rolled around, much had happened to the Rademacher family! They are still living in Crete, Nebraska, but we see that Joe Rademacher has married Anna (Annie), and they have two chldren, Theodore and Clement. Of course, “Theodore” would be Dale’s grandfather, Ted Rademacher. Joe and Annie are living right […]
Salathiel Timmons: Battle of Vaught’s Hill
So in my last post, I talked about how Salathiel Timmons enlisted into the Union Army in Illinois in August 1862, traveled by rail to Kentucky, and then immediately went into action in a terrible and bloody first battle at Perryville in October. Salathiel was in Company “A” of the 123rd Illinois Regiment along with […]
Salathiel Timmons – the Battle of Perryville
Salathiel Timmons appears in an online database of Civil War soldiers: At the time of his enlistment, he was married to Lydia and had a son Charles (my great-great-grandfather), then 18 months old. He served as a Private in the 123rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. According to family legend, Salathiel enlisted alongside his brothers Laban, Leroy and […]
