2nd Lt. Benjamin S. Parker
A Co. 95th Ill. Vol. Inf.
Three Years Service
Worden's Battalion
Mustered In Sept. 4, 1862 as a Sgt. at Camp Fuller in Rockford, Ill.Listed home of record as Marengo, Ill's.
Wounded in Action at Red River.
Promoted 2nd Lt. Jan. 29, 1864.
Mustered Out Aug. 17, 1865.
Known Actions;
Vicksburg, Miss.
Red River, Miss.
Post War;
Moved to Elgin in 1894.
Joined GAR Veteran's Post #49 May 19, 1890.
As recorded on the Elgin Sexton's ledger: Occupation, Retired Banker and Merchant. Died Feb. 7, 1914, 5:00 am at 105 Hill St. Aged 85/2/29. Cause of death listed as Volrilus 36 hours complicated by a Double Hernia. Undertaker retained, Wait & Ross Co. Physician, Hugh H. West. Permit #14716.
Obit; Feb. 7, 1914 issue of The Elgin Daily News.
B. S. Parker, veteran of the War of the Rebellion and a member of Veteran post, No. 49, G.A.R., died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E.A. Vendervere, 105 Hill avenue, at 5 o'clock this morning.
Mr. Parker was ill only a few days. He suffered a relapse on Thursday.
B.S. Parker was born in rushton, Ohio, in Nov. 1828. he was one of the first to go from Ohio into the California gold fields in 1850. Not meeting with much success he cae back to Illinois where he settled in Marengo. At the time of the war he was a member of Company A, 95th Illinois infantry and later was made second lieutenant of the company. He fought in the battle of Vicksburg and was wounded in the Red River campaign. At the close of the war he returned to Marengo where he entered the banking business.
About twenty years ago he came to Elgin and made his home with his only daughter, Mrs. E.A. Vendervere.
Funeral services will be held from the late residence Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The body will be placed in a vault at Bluff City cemetery until spring when it will bed taken to Marengo for burial.
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| Used with permission Dan Mallett |
Members of Post 49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.
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