Born Charles Lincoln June 15th in the year 1844 AD in Pleasant View, Ill. He grew to become a farming man, 5' 7" of light complexion, blue eyes, and black hair. As our great country was being divided by a great civil war he enlisted in support of the Union Army into Company C, 119th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at age 18, August 12, 1862 in Rushville Ill. and was mustered in Oct. 7th, 1862 at Quincy Ill. He appears as present on all C company muster roles except one dated April 1865, where he is listed as "Sick, left at Blakely, Ala on the 13th of April / 65".  I have been unable to find much more on him during the war, with the exceptions of the regimental Report of the Adjutant General and a report from Frederick Dyer's "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion". Mr. Lincoln was honorably discharged, and the regiment mustered out on the 26th of August, 1865 at Mobile Alabama. From where he returned home to Rushville, Ill. and lived  all his life residing in various towns in Schuyler Co. Ill.

   The following I learn of him through pension records provided by the national archives. He married
on November 20th, 1867 to Miss Anna Palmer with whom he fathered 10 children  from a report dated 1912;
Mary Jane  Dec 14th 1868, Sarah Olive Nov. 21st 1870, William Franklin Oct. 15th 1873,
Barton Alfred Nov. 9th 1875, Charles Jessie Jan 12th 1877, George Edward Oct. 16th 1880 ("died"),
Oscar John Oct. 18th 1882, James Otto Oct. 8th 1883, Thomas Jefferson Jan 1st 1886 and
Nellie B Aug. 21st 1889 listed as dying in 1891.

    The next I find on him  is in a  state of Illinois "Declaration for Original Pension of an Invalid" dated the 22nd of June 1875. He lists his disability as follows:
"attacked while on duty with his Co. in the battle or skirmish at Yellow Bayou, La. May 22, 64 with
sunstroke which rendered him insensible and unfitted him for active duty as a soldier. Was occasionally
on duty afterwards and sometimes felt quite well, but any violent exertion brought a return of the
symptoms with slight fits or spasms, which have gradually increased in frequency and violence. And
further stated his condition at present is that he is liable  at any time to be attacked when exhausted
by labor of any kind and this in consequence unable him to make his living by manual labor."
   The rest of the info is a continuation of like reports to the pension office, and a notarized letter from
his wife Anna dated 11th of April, 1882 to the State of Illinois where she describes him as being bed ridden for 7 to 10 days after experiencing one of his fits while working in the fields on hot summer days,
which "obliges her to work the fields and at the same time obliged every few minutes in the day to apply
cold water to his head in order to keep back the fits" She also notes that his condition is growing
steadily worse.

    The next thing of note is a reply to the Dept. of Interior dated Jan 15th 1898, where he still states he
is married to Anna, and has 9 living children. Which tells me his son George was still living at the time.
as he listed his daughter Nellie as dying in 1891. While in a reply to the same dept. in 1912 lists George
as "died". there are some conflicting birth dates and even his marriage to Anna as 1866 in some of his replies as the years passed so birth years may be incorrect, but By Anna's letter I assume it was 1867 (senility?). In this same report of 1912 he listed his wife as Miss Margaret L. Green whom he
married on Nov. 11th, 1899. He doesn't say if Anna died or he divorced, but by records what ever
happened was between Jan 15th 1898 and his marriage to Margaret Nov. 11th 1899. It further lists
his new wife to have been married three times previously to William Henry Shaw, Jackson Sortore(sp) and William F. Roberts. He notes that Mr. Shaw served in the 18th Missouri Calvary.

    Final reports of Mr. Charles Lincoln come from the dept. of the Interior records of "Pensioner Dropped" dated April 22nd 1920 for reason of his death on Feb. 9th, 1920 and a returned check dated April 4th 1920 for 120.00 which I assume is a quarterly payment, so his pension in 1920 was 40 dollars monthly. It seems Mr. Lincoln led a long though perhaps not that healthy life.

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