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Francis M. Welty (John, Elizabeth) “Franklin” was born in 1845
or 1846 in Missouri UN10, UN11, UN12.
He married “Mary T. O’Daniel” on September 2, 1866 in
Williamson County, Illinois IL3, FE1.
Clement Evans, Justice of the Peace, officiated IL3, but in 1913, Mary Kelly, his widow,
stated that the surname of the Justice of the Peace was “Stephens” FE1. The
1870 census stated that both Francis and Mary could read but could not write.
He was in the
Civil War and served as a private in Company C of the 60th Regiment in the Illinois Infantry, Volunteers CI3, FE1, IL8. The pension record, with an application date of
May 4, 1881 (widow application number 282437 and certificate number 260831;
minor application number 303632 and certificate number 215014), listed
that he had an alias, “Franklin M. Welty” CI2.
The details of his service stated that he enlisted on February 8, 1862 at
Jackson, Illinois FE1, IL8, but Mary Kelly stated on the Declaration for Remarried Widow’s Pension
that he enlisted at Marion, Illinois FE1.
He was enlisted as “Franklin M. Welty” by Captain Moss,
and on February 8, 1862 he was eighteen years old, was five feet, five inches
tall with light hair and blue eyes, and was a single farmer who was said to
have been born in Illinois and who then resided in De Soto, Jackson County,
Illinois IL8.
He was reenlisted as a veteran on February 18, 1864 FE1, IL8
at Rossville, Georgia by Captain Walker for a term of three years, when at that
time he was twenty years old, was five feet, seven inches with light hair and
gray eyes, and was a farmer born in Missouri who resided in Jonesboro, Union
County, Illinois IL8.
He mustered in on February 22, 1864 and was mustered out by Captain Montgomery
at Springfield, Illinois on July 18, 1865 IL8. However, he was captured at Jonesboro, North
Carolina on March 3, 1865, and was briefly imprisoned at Richmond, Virginia
from March 29 through April 2, 1865 FE1.
A transcription of his record has been provided FE1:
War Department, Adjutant General’s Office
282,437 Washington, April 27, 1883.
Respectfully returned to the Commissioner
of Pensions.
Franklin M. Welty, a pvt
of Company C, 60 Regiment Ill Volunteers, was enrolled on the 8 day of Feb., 1862 at Jackson Ill for 3 yrs,
and is reported: on rolls from Enrollment to Feb 28, 65 Present (Reenlisted as
Veteran Feb. 18, 64 for 3 yrs Roll for Mch & Apl. 65 Absent captured
since March 3 65 (Co. was enjajed [engaged] in action
Mch. 19 65 [“19” was underlined] at Mill Creek N.C)
Roll for May & June 65 Absent without remark Return for June 65 Absent with
leave captured and paroled Mustered out in Individual muster out roll July 15,
65 [a symbol which may have represented the word “per” or “on” followed “July
15, 65”; it resembled an uppercase “A”, but did not resemble any of the other
uppercase “A’s” written in the same hand in this document] date June 14 65 at
Springfield Ill
Prisoner of War Records show him captured
at Jonesboro N.C. [perhaps Jonesboro Township, located near Sanford, in Lee
County] Mar 3/63. conf’d [confined] at Richmond Va.,
Mar 29, 1865, Paroled at Aikens Land’g, Va, April 2/65. Reported at Camp Parole, Md., April 4, 65.
Sent to Bento Bk’s, Mo, [Benton Barracks in St. Louis, Missouri] April 6/65
where he arrived April 12/65. Furloughed April 14/65 for 3 days; returned June
9, 1865. (No cert on file for extension of furlough) Sent to Chf Mus Officer of States for muster out June 12/65.
No evidence of disability
Regll. Hospl. records
are not on file.
M. Barber
Assistant Adjutant General
Paul Gifford
stated that his full name was Francis Marion Welty, and that he had been
incarcerated in Libby Prison GI10; this information has not yet been confirmed, but
because Francis was incarcerated in Richmond, Virginia, there is an extremely
good probability that he was housed at Libby Prison. While the newspapers of
Richmond, the Richmond Daily Dispatch, Richmond Enquirer, and Richmond
Whig, did occasionally print the lists of newly incarcerated prisoners who
were officers, a comprehensive list of prisoners has not been compiled. Walls
that Talk, published by R.E. Lee Camp in 1884, was a transcription of the
names and dates which were carved into the doors and walls inside the prison by
the inmates during the time of the Civil War, but Francis did not carve his name
or initials anywhere in the prison.
Libby, the
three-story Confederate prison located on the James River in Richmond,
Virginia, was converted from a former tobacco factory ZO1. Originally, it accepted all Union prisoners of
war, but in 1862, strictly accepted officers ZO1. Seven hundred prisoners swelled to 1000 by the
winter of 1863, confined in six rooms of approximately 4,725 square feet apiece ZO1; each inmate would have had roughly twenty-eight
square feet of living and sleeping space, but latrines likely took up a portion of the overall square footage. The prison
was void of beds or bunks ZO1, which indicates that these prisoners slept on the
floor. Prisoners, who were subjected to severe food shortages and infectious
diseases, were occasionally shot for trespasses such as standing near windows,
which had no glass to shield the prisoners from the elements, but instead had
wooden bars ZO1.
In 1870, Francis
and Mary “Welti” lived next to William and Rebecca Welti, who were born about 1845 in Missouri and 1847 in
Indiana, respectively UN12. Francis died on
March 14, 1873 in his home in Carbondale, Jackson County, Illinois; Mary stated
his death was caused by “a disease contracted in the service of the United
States” FE1.
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1850 US Census: lived in Southern District, Jackson
County, Illinois.
·
1860 US Census: lived in Township 8, Range 3E of
Williamson County, Illinois.
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1870 US Census: lived in Makanda,
Jackson County, Illinois.
Mary
T. O’Daniell (Ignatius, Elizabeth) was also known as
“Mary T. O’Dannell” FE1 and was born in 1846 or 1847 in Illinois,
according to census records. The Declaration
for Remarried Widow’s Pension FE1
and her death certificate stated that she was born on October 8, 1847 in
Carbondale, Illinois. Her death certificate further stated that she was born to
“N. Daniel” and an unknown mother. Francis M. Welty and Mary F. O’Daniel
(her middle initial was recorded as “F” in two places on her marriage record) were
married in Williamson County, Illinois on September 2, 1866 by Clement Evans,
Justice of the Peace WI34. Mary was the mother of Ignatius Welty, Edward
J. Kelley, Gertrude Kelley, Mary E. Kelley, and Clara Kelley. Ignatious, born on July 10, 1867, was the only child
mentioned in Mary’s pension applications, and he was said to have been the only
child born to Francis and Mary FE1. It is unclear
who were the parents of one-year-old John Welti,
enumerated in the household of Francis and Mary “Welti”
in Makanda, Jackson County, Illinois in 1870 UN12. This John was
born in Illinois UN12.
Mary remarried to Benjamin
F. Kelly on August 18, 1875 in Dunklin County, Missouri or on August 28, 1875
in Stoddard County, Missouri, which terminated her pension FE1. The date of August 18 in Dunklin County
was written on a document dated in 1919, but the date of August 28 in Stoddard
County was written on a document dated in 1881 FE1, much closer to the actual date of
marriage. Further, an affidavit of two witnesses to
the wedding, Samuel Garlan (Garland) and Nancy Tisdel (Tisdale), stated that the marriage occurred on August
28, 1876 in Stoddard County, and the service was officiated by a Baptist
minister, Reverend Frank Miller FE1.
Benjamin Kelly was
recorded as “B. F. Kelly” on the 1880 census. Other children, aside from
Ignatius, lived with Benjamin and Mary Kelly at the time of the 1880 census:
Fredonia and James, who were the twelve-year-old daughter and ten-year-old son
of Benjamin, and two smaller children who were almost certainly the children of
Benjamin and Mary, named Eddy, a two-year-old son, and Gertrude, whose birth
month was stated as “Nov”, yet was three months old (“3/12”) in 1880. The birth
locations of Mary and the children in the Kelly household, as indicated on the
1880 census, should perhaps be discounted. The 1880 census record indicated
that B.F. Kelly was born in Illinois, and Mary was born in Alabama. The father
and mother of each child in the household, except for Ignatius, were said to
have been born in Illinois and Alabama, respectively, yet both parents of
Ignatius were said on the census to have been born in Illinois, rather than
Missouri and Illinois. Moreover, the relationship of Ignatius Welty to B.F.
Kelly was “stepson”, which demonstrates that Ignatius was clearly the son of
Mary, yet the record indicated that his mother was born in Illinois, rather
than Alabama. An additional daughter of Benjamin and Mary Kelly was Mary E. Kelley, who was listed as the sister of “I.N. Welty” at the time of the 1900 census, and she was born in 1882
in Illinois.
Edward
spelled his name “Ed Kelley” on his
Draft Registration Card for World War II, which stated that he was born on
November 15, 1877 in Union County, Illinois; he lived in Cobden, Union County
in April 1942 US28. According to his obituary, Edward J. Kelley was born
in Jackson County on November 15, 1887 to Frank B. Kelley and Mary O’Daniel,
and he married Augusta C. Winn on January 9, 1900 AN15. The
obituary had a typographical error, because it stated that he was eighty-eight
years old when he died on May 2, 1966 AN15 (this age would place his birth in 1878). The Social US
Security Death Index stated that he was born on November 15, 1877 and died in
May 1866 US26. The
1910 US Census recorded that Edward Kelley, who was then thirty-three, lived in
Jonesboro, Union County, Illinois with his wife, Augusta, and their children;
Edward and Augusta had been married for ten years UN15. They resided in Township 12 of Union County, Illinois in 1920 UN16.
Gertrude Kelley was born about 1879 in Union County, Illinois UN23 or in November 1879 UN13. Gertrude Kelley, then aged sixteen of
Mt. Glen (Mountain Glen, near Cobden, Union County), Illinois, the daughter of
B.F. Kelley and Mary O’Dannel, married John J.
Hamilton on March 11, 1896 in Jonesboro, Union County, Illinois UN23. Witnesses to the event were B.F.
Kelley and James Kelley UN23.
Mary E. Kelly was born about 1882 in Illinois UN14, UN23 (in Union County, Illinois UN23). Mary E. Kelley of Mt. Glen, Illinois, the eighteen-year-old daughter
of Frank Kelley and Mary T. O’Donnell (or O’Dannell),
married William Thompson on November 15, 1900 in Jonesboro, Union County,
Illinois UN23. The marriage record stated that the
witnesses to the wedding were Edward and Augusta Kelley, and that Mary would be
nineteen on her next birthday UN23.
The United
States Social Security application for Clara
Kelley Obermeier stated that she was born on June
4, 1884 in Jonesboro, Illinois to Frank Kelley and “Marry Odaniel”
US27. Clara Kelley, the daughter of Frank Kelley and Mary “O.
Daniel”, who was born in Union County, Illinois and stated that she would be
twenty on her next birthday, married Van Batson on August 27, 1903 in
Jonesboro, Union County, Illinois UN23. In
1910, Van and Clara Batson lived in Jonesboro, Union County, Illinois with
their children, William E. Batson, age three, and Connie M. Batson, a newborn UN15. Their neighbor was William Obermeier
of Austria UN15. By the time of the 1920 US Census, Clara was married to “Wm” Obermeier of Austria
and they resided in Township 12, Union County, Illinois with their nine-month-old
son, Carl UN16. Other household members included Earl and Connie Batson, the
stepson and stepdaughter of William Obermeier who
were thirteen and ten, respectively, and Frank Kelley, William’s sixteen-year-old
nephew UN16. The 1930 US Census recorded that Clara Obermeier
was the head of the household, and she lived in Jonesboro, Union County,
Illinois with her son, William E. Batson UN17.
Mary and Benjamin
Kelly lived in Cobden, Union County, Illinois in April 1881, and in Mountain
Glen, Union County, Illinois in 1889 FE1.
A letter dictated by Mary has been transcribed; she was unable to write, and on
two occasions she made a mark in place of a signature FE1:
Mountain Glen, Union Co. Illinois.
August 6, 1889.
Dear Sir:
In 1886 I filed a claim for pension as the
widow of Francis M. Welty, late pri of Co “C.” 60,
Ill Vols. my claim is No 282 437. my claim was for arrears of pension, from the
date of my first husbands
death to the date of my marriage after his death, my claim was disallowed for
what reason I do not know, for I know the law gives me a pension during the
time I remained the widow, of said Francis M. Welty. I was
allowed a pension as Guardian of the minor [the previous four words were
underlined], son of Francis M. Welty: minors ct No
215,014
Will you please Reexamine my claim and see
that justice is done me, which as yet has not been
done, and greatly oblige me.
Yours truly
Mary T. Kelley, formerly
Mary T. Welty, widow of
Francis M. Welty, late private
Co “C.” 60. Ill Vols.
Benjamin Kelly died
on May 4, 1903, near Cobden, Union County, Illinois FE1. On January 13, 1919, Mary T. Kelly
appeared before Andrew J. Roberts, a Notary Public in Union County, Illinois
and stated that she was seventy-one years of age, lived in Cobden, Illinois
with “Ed Kelly”, and filed a Declaration
for Remarried Widow’s Pension FE1.
Congress had, on September 8, 1916, passed Section Two, which amended a
previous act; Section Two stated that widows of officers or enlisted
men who served during the Civil War who subsequently remarried, and then
were either widowed again or divorced through no fault of her own, would be
entitled to once again receive a pension FE1.
The Union County death
certificate for Mary T. Kelly stated that she died on February 2, 1919 in
Jonesboro, Union County, Illinois, and had lived there for thirty-three years.
She was a widow at the time of her death, and her primary cause of death was
senility, with a secondary cause of gastritis. She had been senile for five
years. Mary was buried at “Mt. Taber [sic] Cemetery” on February 3, 1919,
but the undertaker’s address was in Cobden, which is quite near Mount Tabor
Cemetery. The informant was listed as “Ed. Kelly” of Cobden. Mary should have
been enumerated in the 1900 and 1910 censuses, yet her name was not located. A search through the census pages for
Districts 0095 and 0096 for Cobden Precinct and Cobden Village was unproductive and a search through the fifty-eight
pages of 1910 census records for Districts 0135, 0136, and 0137 of Jonesboro,
Union County, Illinois, did not reveal her name, yet her attending physician at
the time of her death, Dr. A.J. Lyerly, did live in Jonesboro in 1910.
·
1850 US Census: lived in Southern District, Jackson County,
Illinois.
·
1860 US Census: lived in Township 8, Range 3E, Williamson County,
Illinois.
·
1870 US Census: lived in Makanda,
Jackson County, Illinois.
·
1880 US Census: lived in Anna, Union County,
Illinois.