A Civil War Soldier: Pvt. Isaac LUKE (1831 - 1920)

How Related: My husband's 2nd-great-grandfather

Born: 1 April 1831 in Mount Vernon, Wayne Co., Ohio

Parents: Azel Isak LUKE (1791 - 1874) and Annabel MITCHELL (1793 - c. 1850)

Siblings: William (1818 - 1894), Lydia (1821 - 1913), John (1823 - 1864), Margaret (b. c. 1825), Mary (b. 1827), and Charlotte LUKE (1833 - 1910)

Married: first on 20 February 1851 to Rebecca HEWITT (1836 - 1911) in Sun Prairie, Dane Co., Wisconsin; after Rebecca's death, he married three other women, outliving at least two of them: Florence SUMMERS, Eliza HURD, and Maryann (BEST) SPERB

Children: Isaac and Rebecca (nice Biblical names!) had 14 children!:

• William Alonzo (1852 - 1919)
• Robert Thomas (1853 - 1932)
• Orville Isaac (1855 - 1943)
• Mollisia Rachel (1856 - c. 1937)
• Lydia J. (c. 1859 - c. 1877)
• Orin Azel (1860 - 1932)
• Julia Elizabeth (1862 - 1916)
• Simeon Wesley (1863 - 1947)
• Angelia Rebecca (1866 - 1941) - my husband's ancestor
• Mary Amanda "Mandy" (1868 - 1938)
• Clara (c. 1870 - 1877)
• Lucy (c. 1872 - 1875)
• Eunice Rebecca (1874 - 1918)
• Alice Viola (1878 - 1955)
  

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Drafted: 26 September 1864 in Co. U, 16th Wisconsin Infantry; private

Side served: Union

Mustered Out: 13 May 1865

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Biography or Information of Interest: Isaac has been difficult to research; the 16th Wisconsin Infantry's Civil War Pension Index Cards have not yet been uploaded to Footnote, and I don't find one for him at Ancestry, so I'm not sure if he collected a pension. Other than many names, dates, and locations that have been passed on by other Luke researchers for this family, I haven't found any detailed information that gives me a flesh-and-blood portrait of the man. I did find a message at Genforum from a descendant who has a photograph of Isaac and Rebecca's family, but the e-mail address I wrote to is no longer valid. One item of note: it appears his brother John was also a Civil War soldier who died at Memphis, Tennessee. This is the second time since starting this series that I've discovered new information on a brother of an ancestor that also served.

Died: 18 January 1920 in Avon, Bon Homme Co., South Dakota

Buried: Grave 6, Lot 15, Block 3, Section 3 of Hitt Cemetery, Avon, Bon Homme Co., South Dakota