John C. Mathias^{[1, 2, 3]}

1840 - 1897  (57 years)

• Name	John C. Mathias
  Born	1839/1840	Gilboa, Hancock, Ohio, United States   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Died	8 Jun 1897	Belmore, Putnam, Ohio, United States   [3]
  Buried	Belmore East Cemetery, Belmore, Putnam, Ohio, United States   [3]
  Person ID	I8667772047	Master Tree
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2004

  
  

  Father	Paul Mathias,   b. 1808/1809, Ohio, United States ,   d. Jan 1867, Hancock, Ohio, United States  (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Barbara (Barbary) Stambaugh,   b. 1812/1813, Pennsylvania, United States ,   bur. Dukes Cemetery, Blanchard, Hancock, Ohio, United States
  Married	16 Aug 1832	Stark, Ohio, United States
  Notes	_STATMARRIED
  Family ID	F7975167009	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Rebecca A. Kleinfelter,   b. 19 Jun 1847, Johnsville, Morrow, Ohio, United States ,   d. 26 Aug 1928, Belmore, Putnam, Ohio, United States  (Age 81 years)
  Married	20 Aug 1868	Ottawa, Putnam, Ohio, United States
  Notes	_STATMARRIED
  Children	+ 1. William E. Mathias,   b. 1869, Ohio, United States + 2. Edd E. Mathias,   b. 1871/1873, Kansas, United States   3. Archie Mathias,   b. 1877/1878, Indiana, United States
  Family ID	F7975167246	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Harris,   d. 8 Jan 1868
  Married	30 Mar 1865	Putnam, Ohio, United States
  Notes	_STATMARRIED
  Family ID	F7975167245	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1839/1840 - Gilboa, Hancock, Ohio, United States Married - 30 Mar 1865 - Putnam, Ohio, United States Married - 20 Aug 1868 - Ottawa, Putnam, Ohio, United States Died - 8 Jun 1897 - Belmore, Putnam, Ohio, United States Buried - - Belmore East Cemetery, Belmore, Putnam, Ohio, United States  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  According to the research of Dorothy Weiser Seale, she notes on page 333 of her book Mat(t)hias Milestones that John was a Captain in the Civil War. John, his brother, Ephraim, and their cousin Albert C. Mathias enlisted on 4 November 1861 in Hancock County, Ohio. They joined Company K, the 65th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. John enlisted as a Private and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 19 February 1862 in Company K. On 11 May 1862 he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant of Company K. However, on 20 February 1863, he was made Captain of Company A, 65th Regiment. On 28 May 1864, John ...was wounded...in the Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia, near Dallas, in the Atlanta Campaign. He received a severe gun shot wound to the left side, in the lower portion of the pleura and lung. On 26 October 1864 near Alpine, Ga., Capt. John tendered his resignation to Brig. Gen. W.D. Whipple... "because I have been in the service for three years, my father died in March, 1864 leaving my mother, and the wife and three children of one of my brothers who is serving in this regiment, with no one to care for them. In June 1864 our dwelling house was burned with all its contents and the two families are suffering much for want of someone to look after them." His request was granted and his resignation accepted 17 December 1864. After mustering out of the cervice, John resided in Franklin County, Kansas and Allen County, Indiana before returning to Putnam County in 1883. Ms. Seale explains that John died due to consumption which resulted from his Civil War wound. "He made his own funeral sermon arrangements with S. H. Raudebaugh shortly before his death. He is buried in Belmore East Cemetery located on Ridge Road, one mile southeast of Belmore, Ohio in Lot 33, Grave No. 1. An upright monument honors his war service (p. 333)." In the 1880 Allen County, Indiana Census, John is a farmer who resides with his wife and their three children in Madison; a farm laborer, George Midleton, age 20 and born in England, also resides with them.

  
  

• Sources

  [S560402620] 1850 United States Census. [S8072068432] 1860 United States Census. [S8029499284] Mat(t)hias milestones : the genealogy & biographical history of Daniel Mathias, senior (a soldier of the Revolution) of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania & Stark County, Ohio, Seale, Dorothy Weiser, (Westview Press, Inc.: Boulder, Colorado, 1984.). [S8029507917] 1880 United States Census.