John A Waggoner

[wags6817]

I have another ancestor that I'm trying to find information on. John A Waggoner 1839-1870. Lived in either Jefferson or Carroll County in Ohio. There is a GAR marker on his grave but no mention of any unit or anything else. You guys are so great with this stuff. As always thanks in advance.

 

[IcarusPhoenix]

The records for him are a bit hazy: The son of John A. Waggoner (1805-1884) and Mary Jane Waggoner née Young (1807-1850), born in Loudon, Carroll, Ohio on 2 November 1839 and died July 15, 1870, apparently in Shelbyville, Indiana (leastwise that's where the 1870 Census apparently shows his family living). His Civil War service was either in the 96th Ohio as a private with a promotion to corporal before the regiment mustered out in July of 1865 or he was a private and musician in the 166th Ohio, which was a 90-day regiment called up in 1864 for the defense of Washington from Jubal Early. There is no further specific information on him (the regimental histories I got from Dyer's), but that's what I can find.

 

[Littlestown]

His name is included in a list of Carroll County Civil War Veterans Receiving Bounty, "who have received a bounty of $25.00" as provided by the County Commissioners, paid by Washington Butler, Agent. Published in the Carroll Union Press, Carrollton, Ohio, Wednesday, February 25, 1863, Vol. 2, No. 26.

 

[Littlestown]

Thompson Family Ohio Civil War Soldiers

John Alexander Waggoner was a Corporal in the 98th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company H. He was born September 2, 1839 in Loudon Twp., Carroll County, Ohio, a son of John A. Waggoner Sr. and Mary Young. He married Martha Jane Thompson in Carroll County, Ohio on November 26, 1867. Rev. Thomas R. Simpson performed the ceremony. Children: John Kinsey Waggoner, and possibly another child named Samuel K. Waggoner.

He enlisted August 6, 1862 in the 98th Ohio. On October 8, 1862, he was wounded in the battle of Perrysville, Kentucky. He was then appointed Corporal, being mustered out with his company on June 1, 1865.

Copied from Carroll County Civil War Men of Valor, Carroll Co. Genealogical Society

 

[wags6817]

Thanks everyone, about three years ago I found his burial site in Kilgore, Ohio and that is when I determined he was in the civil war. Thanks for all the great information. I have records of him having the one son (John Kinsey) but nothing on the other one.

 

[wags6817]

I was out taking some photos for find-a-grave today and came upon the Col of the 98th. Here is a link to the photos. He did not last long as commander while he was killed in action in his first battle, Perryville.