Isaac Riley Rathbun

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with his parents on their farm at Boundary City in Jay County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 29 July 1861 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.

In 1870 he was farming with his parents and brother George and his family at Alendale in Worth County, MO but by 1880 and to at least 1900 farmed his own place in Chautauqua County, KS. He'd retired there by 1910.

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married his first cousin Sarah Ann Dye (1845-1892) in August 1865 in Missouri, and they had 4 daughters. He married again, her sister Margaret Czarina Dye (1847-1930) in February 1909 in Iowa.

02/02/1842 in IN

11/22/1914; burial in Moore Prairie Cemetery, Hendricks Township, Chautauqua County, KS