Again more questions have been asked me about this bio. I've taken some time and reviewed thing in the bio. My head hurts after trying to clear up the changing names, missing/recurring people and sometimes contradictory records.
Some changes have been made to the bio based on the review. Sadly, there are still questions about the some of the sons of Enoch & Elizabeth Sawyer.
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Recently a question came up about Lemuel and Samuel Sawyer who I had as two different people. They were not in my ancestral make up so I had not pursued all avenues of info. A check of the available information indicates Lemuel & Samuel were one in the same person.
Samuel/Lemuel was the son of Enoch & Elizabeth [Broaddus] Sawyer. These 2 names are used at one time or another for a male born in about 1840-44 per census reports. Each time only 1 male with this estimated birth time range is shown which indicates Samuel/Lemuel were one in the same person.
In the 1850 Census Lunford is shown as 10 years old. In the 1860 Census the of family the census shows a 20 year old S Sawyer. In 1862 a 19 year old male (Samuel) joins the army.
(Note the 1850 census also shows a 8 year old Isaac Sawyer, in 1860 the 18 year old is shown as Jesse Sawyer.)
Back to Samuel. Military records show a Samuel Sawyer joined Company D of the 77th Illinois volunteer Infantry on 9 Aug 1862, his age 19. Army records always show his name as Samuel. Both Samuel and his brother Jesse were in Company D of the 77th. Samuel died of disease on 21 Aug 1864 in Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois. There is no military record for Lemuel Sawyer.
His mother Elizabeth's obit, (which could be clearer), states that, "she furnished two sons ... in the cruel war ... one lived ... (the other) ... was brought back ... and laid down before her a corpse."
While Samuel died at Camp Butler on 21 Aug 1864 there is no military record for his burial at the Camp Butler or in any other military cemetery.
A early Sawyer cemetery census does show:
Lemuel Sawyer Son of E & E b. May 3, 1843 d. 2 Jan 1861. The death date was an error, which a later tombstone photo shows 21 Jan 1864 as the death date. This date is the same as the military death record for Samuel.
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The confusion of over young males in this family continues.
His mother's obit further tells of another (unnamed) son's death. "Soon after that Samuel's death one of her sons started west in the very prime of his life: in three days he was brought back and laid down before her cut in two by the wheels of a locomotive."
The strange thing is that there is no other unaccounted for male child for Elizabeth Sawyer. A look at census records for the family shows that the only male child to die before Elizabeth was Lunford/Samuel. Elizabeth's obit tells of 7 living children and they all did die after Elizabeth. Finally, the Henry library does not include images for newspapers during the estimated railroad accident, so was the writer of the obit given the wrong story or ...
Some changes have been made to the bio based on the review. Sadly, there are still questions about the some of the sons of Enoch & Elizabeth Sawyer.
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Recently a question came up about Lemuel and Samuel Sawyer who I had as two different people. They were not in my ancestral make up so I had not pursued all avenues of info. A check of the available information indicates Lemuel & Samuel were one in the same person.
Samuel/Lemuel was the son of Enoch & Elizabeth [Broaddus] Sawyer. These 2 names are used at one time or another for a male born in about 1840-44 per census reports. Each time only 1 male with this estimated birth time range is shown which indicates Samuel/Lemuel were one in the same person.
In the 1850 Census Lunford is shown as 10 years old. In the 1860 Census the of family the census shows a 20 year old S Sawyer. In 1862 a 19 year old male (Samuel) joins the army.
(Note the 1850 census also shows a 8 year old Isaac Sawyer, in 1860 the 18 year old is shown as Jesse Sawyer.)
Back to Samuel. Military records show a Samuel Sawyer joined Company D of the 77th Illinois volunteer Infantry on 9 Aug 1862, his age 19. Army records always show his name as Samuel. Both Samuel and his brother Jesse were in Company D of the 77th. Samuel died of disease on 21 Aug 1864 in Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois. There is no military record for Lemuel Sawyer.
His mother Elizabeth's obit, (which could be clearer), states that, "she furnished two sons ... in the cruel war ... one lived ... (the other) ... was brought back ... and laid down before her a corpse."
While Samuel died at Camp Butler on 21 Aug 1864 there is no military record for his burial at the Camp Butler or in any other military cemetery.
A early Sawyer cemetery census does show:
Lemuel Sawyer Son of E & E b. May 3, 1843 d. 2 Jan 1861. The death date was an error, which a later tombstone photo shows 21 Jan 1864 as the death date. This date is the same as the military death record for Samuel.
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The confusion of over young males in this family continues.
His mother's obit further tells of another (unnamed) son's death. "Soon after that Samuel's death one of her sons started west in the very prime of his life: in three days he was brought back and laid down before her cut in two by the wheels of a locomotive."
The strange thing is that there is no other unaccounted for male child for Elizabeth Sawyer. A look at census records for the family shows that the only male child to die before Elizabeth was Lunford/Samuel. Elizabeth's obit tells of 7 living children and they all did die after Elizabeth. Finally, the Henry library does not include images for newspapers during the estimated railroad accident, so was the writer of the obit given the wrong story or ...
Again more questions have been asked me about this bio. I've taken some time and reviewed thing in the bio. My head hurts after trying to clear up the changing names, missing/recurring people and sometimes contradictory records.
Some changes have been made to the bio based on the review. Sadly, there are still questions about the some of the sons of Enoch & Elizabeth Sawyer.
----------
Recently a question came up about Lemuel and Samuel Sawyer who I had as two different people. They were not in my ancestral make up so I had not pursued all avenues of info. A check of the available information indicates Lemuel & Samuel were one in the same person.
Samuel/Lemuel was the son of Enoch & Elizabeth [Broaddus] Sawyer. These 2 names are used at one time or another for a male born in about 1840-44 per census reports. Each time only 1 male with this estimated birth time range is shown which indicates Samuel/Lemuel were one in the same person.
In the 1850 Census Lunford is shown as 10 years old. In the 1860 Census the of family the census shows a 20 year old S Sawyer. In 1862 a 19 year old male (Samuel) joins the army.
(Note the 1850 census also shows a 8 year old Isaac Sawyer, in 1860 the 18 year old is shown as Jesse Sawyer.)
Back to Samuel. Military records show a Samuel Sawyer joined Company D of the 77th Illinois volunteer Infantry on 9 Aug 1862, his age 19. Army records always show his name as Samuel. Both Samuel and his brother Jesse were in Company D of the 77th. Samuel died of disease on 21 Aug 1864 in Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois. There is no military record for Lemuel Sawyer.
His mother Elizabeth's obit, (which could be clearer), states that, "she furnished two sons ... in the cruel war ... one lived ... (the other) ... was brought back ... and laid down before her a corpse."
While Samuel died at Camp Butler on 21 Aug 1864 there is no military record for his burial at the Camp Butler or in any other military cemetery.
A early Sawyer cemetery census does show:
Lemuel Sawyer Son of E & E b. May 3, 1843 d. 2 Jan 1861. The death date was an error, which a later tombstone photo shows 21 Jan 1864 as the death date. This date is the same as the military death record for Samuel.
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The confusion of over young males in this family continues.
His mother's obit further tells of another (unnamed) son's death. "Soon after that Samuel's death one of her sons started west in the very prime of his life: in three days he was brought back and laid down before her cut in two by the wheels of a locomotive."
The strange thing is that there is no other unaccounted for male child for Elizabeth Sawyer. A look at census records for the family shows that the only male child to die before Elizabeth was Lunford/Samuel. Elizabeth's obit tells of 7 living children and they all did die after Elizabeth. Finally, the Henry library does not include images for newspapers during the estimated railroad accident, so was the writer of the obit given the wrong story or ...
Some changes have been made to the bio based on the review. Sadly, there are still questions about the some of the sons of Enoch & Elizabeth Sawyer.
----------
Recently a question came up about Lemuel and Samuel Sawyer who I had as two different people. They were not in my ancestral make up so I had not pursued all avenues of info. A check of the available information indicates Lemuel & Samuel were one in the same person.
Samuel/Lemuel was the son of Enoch & Elizabeth [Broaddus] Sawyer. These 2 names are used at one time or another for a male born in about 1840-44 per census reports. Each time only 1 male with this estimated birth time range is shown which indicates Samuel/Lemuel were one in the same person.
In the 1850 Census Lunford is shown as 10 years old. In the 1860 Census the of family the census shows a 20 year old S Sawyer. In 1862 a 19 year old male (Samuel) joins the army.
(Note the 1850 census also shows a 8 year old Isaac Sawyer, in 1860 the 18 year old is shown as Jesse Sawyer.)
Back to Samuel. Military records show a Samuel Sawyer joined Company D of the 77th Illinois volunteer Infantry on 9 Aug 1862, his age 19. Army records always show his name as Samuel. Both Samuel and his brother Jesse were in Company D of the 77th. Samuel died of disease on 21 Aug 1864 in Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois. There is no military record for Lemuel Sawyer.
His mother Elizabeth's obit, (which could be clearer), states that, "she furnished two sons ... in the cruel war ... one lived ... (the other) ... was brought back ... and laid down before her a corpse."
While Samuel died at Camp Butler on 21 Aug 1864 there is no military record for his burial at the Camp Butler or in any other military cemetery.
A early Sawyer cemetery census does show:
Lemuel Sawyer Son of E & E b. May 3, 1843 d. 2 Jan 1861. The death date was an error, which a later tombstone photo shows 21 Jan 1864 as the death date. This date is the same as the military death record for Samuel.
++++++
The confusion of over young males in this family continues.
His mother's obit further tells of another (unnamed) son's death. "Soon after that Samuel's death one of her sons started west in the very prime of his life: in three days he was brought back and laid down before her cut in two by the wheels of a locomotive."
The strange thing is that there is no other unaccounted for male child for Elizabeth Sawyer. A look at census records for the family shows that the only male child to die before Elizabeth was Lunford/Samuel. Elizabeth's obit tells of 7 living children and they all did die after Elizabeth. Finally, the Henry library does not include images for newspapers during the estimated railroad accident, so was the writer of the obit given the wrong story or ...
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LEMUEL
SON OF
E. & E. SAWYER
BORN
MAY 3, 1843
DIED
JAN. 21, 1864
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