Elias Reeve

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his mother and 3 siblings on his grandfather John Johnson's farm at Freedom in Owen County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Private in Company I, 19th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

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

He mustered out with his company on 28 July 1864 at Indianapolis, IN.

He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in February 1870. In 1880 he was a farmer in Vigo County, IN but by 1900 was farming at Lone Elm in Anderson County, KS. He attempted suicide twice in March 1906 and was afterward a resident of Osawatomie State Hospital.

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1900, and a piece in the Blue Mound (KS) Sun of 30 March 1906. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elmira E G Evans (1846-1924) in October 1865. He married again, the widow Susan Angeline Crockett Warren (1844-1915) in February 1875 and they had 4 children.

c. 1844; Owen County, IN

11/25/1908; Osawatomie, KS; burial in Osawatomie State Hospital Burial Ground, Osawatomie, KS