12th OH Cavalry Lieut/Surgn
Husband of Almeda Nettleton (born Oct 1834)

from FAG member Dale Hawkinson:
Stiles Rust Nettleton was born in Ohio on April 7, 1834. He died in Kirkland, Washington on May 17, 1911.

-- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Saturday, October 17, 1908, Section 2, page 1

VETERAN CAST FIRST BALLOT FOR JOHN C. FREMONT IN '56
S. R. Nettleton Voted for Lincoln While a Soldier -- He Is For Taft
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S. R. Nettle, 75 years old, who cast his first vote for John C. Fremont and who has voted the Republican ticket ever since, expects to cast a ballot for Taft and Sherman in the November election.

Shortly after Mr. Nettleton voted for Lincoln, in 1860, he joined the Twelfth Ohio Volunteer cavalry and took the field with his regiment in Kentucky. Under Gen. Burbridge the Union cavalry raided the country around the Tennessee and Virginia borders and several times attacked the salt supply of the Confederacy in Western Virginia.

Mr. Nettleton was one of the cavalrymen who participated in Stoneman's famous raid through Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. The Union men cut and destroyed miles of each railroad they crossed and pierced the heart of the Confederate strongholds.

While in South Carolina the soldiers in the field took part in the election of 1864, and Mr. Nettleton had the unique distinction of being the only voter from his home county in his regiment. Mr. Nettleton's vote made it necessary for the election officials to get out full county returns for his ballot.

After the war was over Mr. Nettleton returned to Michigan and resumed his occupation as lumberman. He came to Seattle in 1889 as a special agent of the treasury department, and has been a resident of the city ever since.

Proud of having voted for the long list of distinguished men elected by the Republican party, Mr. Nettleton asks the young voter to cast his first vote for Taft. "Let me," he said, "recommend to the young man who will in November cast his first vote for president, so to vote that when he shall have passed the three-quarter century mark he can be proud of his part in this election. The way to do that, i believe, is to vote for Judge Taft, the honored representative and standard bearer of the Republican party.

Mr. Nettleton is the father of eight children, five girls and three boys, all of them residents of Washington.