Joseph Thomas Ives

A farmer at Winchester in Randolph County, IN, he enlisted on 29 July 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company C, 19th Indiana Infantry.

He was wounded in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 24 October 1862 and promoted to Captain on 1 March 1863. He transferred to the 20th Indiana Infantry at the consolidation of 18 October 1864, and was commissioned Major, but he did not muster at that rank and mustered out with them as Captain of Company A in July 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again a farmer at Winchester, IN. He bought the New York store at Delphi in Carroll County, IN in 1893 and turned it over to his 3 sons in 1897. In 1900 he was farming west of Delphi, but he was back in town and working in the store in 1910.

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1910, and his obituary in the Flora, IN Hoosier Democrat of 11 May 1918. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Angelina T. Cox (1844-1936) in December 1866 and they had 6 children.

08/06/1839; Randolph County, IN

05/06/1918; Delphi, IN; burial in Masonic Cemetery, Delphi, IN