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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Rayborn

(1844 - 1909)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with Henry Fisher and family on their farm at Newport in Vermillion County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 20 December 1862. He enlisted again and mustered on 25 March 1864 as a Private in Company F, 40th Indiana Infantry. He was again discharged for disability on 20 May 1865.

After the War

By 1880 he was a farmer in Boone County, IN but by 1900 was farming in Garfield County in the Oklahoma Territory (statehood in 1907). A 1907 pension document notes he had lost his right leg.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Siritha Jane Evans (1843-1930) in April 1866 in Boone County, IN and they had 7 children.

Birth

10/26/1844; Crawford, IL

Death

12/05/1909; Garfield County, OK; burial in Bocox Cemetery, Logan County, OK

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 287; Vol. 5, p. 263 [AotW citation 33355]

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