Isaac H. Crim

His father John died when he was about 2 years old and his mother remarried when he was 5, to farmer Timothy Page. By 1850 they were farming in Illinois, where he was raised. He was on a visit to Indiana at the start of the war and he enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company C, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

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

He was sent to a hospital in Washington, DC and was discharged for disability on 26 January 1863.

He was a railroad agent and by 1870 was a telegraph operator for the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad and lived in Mitchell, Lawrence County, IN. In 1880 he was County Auditor there and by 1900 was county clerk at Bedford, IN, the county seat. In 1910 he was a rural mail carrier at Beford and was City Treasurer there in 1920, then 78 years old. He'd finally retired in Bedford by 1930.

His service from the Adjutant General, 1 as Isaac H Craim, and his wounding from Nelson,2 as Isaac H Craim and Isaac Grim. Personal details from the US Census of 1850, 1870-1880, and a bio sketch in Goodspeed's History of Lawrence, Orange, and Washington counties, Indiana (1884). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Emiline Newkirk (1848-1927) in October 1866 and they had 2 daughters.

01/01/1842; Martin County, IN

09/19/1938; Bedford, IN; burial in Green Hill Cemetery, Bedford, IN