Thomas Kirkby

He came to America with his parents sometime after 1851 and in 1860 was a 23 year old living with his parents and 3 siblings on their rented farm near Union City in Randolph County, IN. He enlisted on 29 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 19th Indiana Infantry.

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

He reenlisted in January 1864. He was First Sergeant when he transferred to Company A of the 20th Indiana Infantry at the consolidation of 18 October 1864, was appointed First Lieutenant on 2 December 1864, and mustered out with them on 12 July 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he farmed his own place near Westchester in Jay County, IN. He filed for a veterans' pension for disability in March 1887.

Service basics from the Adjutant General,1 as Thomas Kirby. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone spells his name Kirby. His picture from a photograph in the Bob Willey Collection, shared to the FamilySearch database by Sean Kirkby in 2015.

He married Ellen White (1840-1920) in February 1864, probably while on reenlistment furlough, and they had a daughter Florence "Flora" (1866-1923).

His brother Henry (1841-1925) was also in Company C of the 19th Infantry, and may have been with him in Maryland in 1862.

04/11/1837; Whilton, Lincolnshire, ENGLAND

04/14/1887; Westchester, IN; burial in Limberlost Cemetery, Bearcreek Township, Jay County, IN