This posting, documents the last 2 years of John William Wildermuth's short life.
John was born in Coles County, Illinois on the 13 July 1844. By 1850 the family had moved to a farm in Fayette, Lafeyette County, Wisconsin.
He died in Decatur, Morgan or Limestone County, Alabama. I presumed that he was buried there for 2 years or so.
The nearest Union Cemetery opened in 1866. At or after that date his remains was transferred 95 miles to the west for internment in Union National Cemetery, Corinth, Alcom County Mississippi.
When the remains of all the soldiers in the cemetery were moved they were moved as "unknown" soldiers. All of them originally had wooden grave/name markers.
After the Civil War, wood for keeping warm was at a minimum for the residents nearby. Families would take the grave markers and use burn them for warmth.
John's regiment, the 25th Wisconsin, had moved to Columbus, Kentucky, in February 1863. They were placed under the Sixteenth Army Corps of General Hurlburt. Please see Wisconsin Historical Society. It is within a historical Essay entitled: "25th Wisconsin Infantry History". You may click on the link listed below:
Please refer to:
http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/quiner/id/16509
Even tho' his records from the National Archives states he was in the Co. B, 25th Regiment, Wisconsin, I could not find him listed in the typed muster rolls.
I do not know if his parents, David Clinton and Anna Newkirk Wildermuth knew that he was buried at either location.
There is a story in the Wildermuth Family that states the family were on their farm in Fayette Wisconsin, when they were informed of at least one of the brothers death. They were picking fruit at the time they were told the news. This is based on the memories of Louisa Olive Wildermuth Carpenter. She would have been 13 at the time.
The farm is no longer in the family. Elsie and her husband now own the property. Elsie's husband put a white picket fence around the graves of David and Anne Wildermuth's other children, David and Francis, to protect them from being trampled by the cows that grazed there. David and Francis are buried at the base of an old black walnut tree.
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Even tho' his records from the National Archives states he was in the Co. B, 25th Regiment, Wisconsin, I could not find him listed in the typed muster rolls.
I do not know if his parents, David Clinton and Anna Newkirk Wildermuth knew that he was buried at either location.
There is a story in the Wildermuth Family that states the family were on their farm in Fayette Wisconsin, when they were informed of at least one of the brothers death. They were picking fruit at the time they were told the news. This is based on the memories of Louisa Olive Wildermuth Carpenter. She would have been 13 at the time.
The farm is no longer in the family. Elsie and her husband now own the property. Elsie's husband put a white picket fence around the graves of David and Anne Wildermuth's other children, David and Francis, to protect them from being trampled by the cows that grazed there. David and Francis are buried at the base of an old black walnut tree.
©All rights reserved by Pathways in Genealogy. 2018 - 2022. No part of this website/blog may be reproduced without the express written permission from the owner.
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