Pvt. Lyman H. Smith

Pvt. Lyman H. Smith

 
       From the Academy Civil War Monument Attended the Elgin Academy.

       From the 1860 Census #336/2490
Name - Lyman Smith
Aged - 18 Years
Born - Ohio
Home in 1860 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill.
Occupation - Clerk

       From the Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois

B Co. 8th Ill. Cav.

I Co. 8th Ill. Cav.

Three Years Service

Farnsworth’s Regiment

   Enlisted Sept. 12, 1861.
   Home of record listed as Elgin, Ill's.
   Mustered in at Camp Kane in St. Charles, Ill's. Sept. 18, 1861.
   Issued .56 7 shot Spencer Carbine, a Revolver, and a Sabers
   Discharged due to Disability April 17, 1862.
        Known Actions;
Bull Run, Va. March 10, 1862

Joined GAR, Bartleson Post #6 in Joliet, Ill.
 
       From the Post #49 files
Joined Elgin GAR Veteran's Post #49 July 5, 1887.

   As recorded on the Elgin Sexton's ledger
Occupation, Merchant.  Died Oct. 16, 1902, 4:00 pm at 208 Villa St.  Aged 61/2/24.  Cause of death listed as Sarcoma of Pelvis with Bronchitus.  Undertaker retained, Palmer & Lewis.  Physician, W. C. Brown.  Permit #8923.

   Obit; Oct. 17, 1902 issue of The Elgin Daily News.
   Lyman H. Smith, for twelve years a job foreman in the plate room of the Elgin national Watch factory, and a member of the late firm of Orton, Smith & Moore, died yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock.  He was 61 years old.  Mr. smith had been in poor health since 1900 and experienced his first serious illness fourteen months ago when he was afflicted with cancer of the bone.  Since that time his sufferings have been intense.  It was thought he could not live until Monday, but an iron constitution kept him alive until yesterday.
   Deceased was born in Conneaut, O., and moved with his parents to Belvidere at the age of nine years.  Three years later he came to Elgin to take a course in the Elgin academy, which was then under the principalship of the late Prof. Bienkiron.  On leaving the school, he toojk a position in his father's store at Huntley, ill.  During the Civil war he served with distinction in the 8th Illinois Cavalry, Co. I.  After a long employment at the watch factory, Mr. Smith engaged in the hot water heater business with Mr. Moore.  later on the firm was Orton, Smith & Moore and continued under that management for six years, when it was changed to Moore &Hawkins.

   Mr. smith is survived by a wife and two sisters, Mrs. J.S. Orton and Mrs. W.H. Brydges.  The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the First Methodist church, of which he was a member.  The Ancient Order of united Workmen and members of the Knights of the Globe, two orders with which the deceased was connected, will attend the funeral.

       From the 1956 Kane Co. Honor Roll
Soldier - Cpl. Lyman H. Smith
Unit - Co. I       8th Ill. Cav.
Died - Oct. 16, 1902

Buried at - Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin, Ill.

Location - Lot 10, Section 1

Used with permission Dan Mallett

Many members of Post #49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.