Thornton Family Genealogy

    Olmsted, Joseph Staples

Birth:     c. 1846/7, KY
Death:     21 Jun 1903, IN

Father:    Olmsted, William ()
Mother:    Staples, Elizabeth ()

Married    Strode, Martha Olmsted (*KY)
           IN, Sourced
Children:
    1. Olmsted, B[ue]rnie ()
    2. Olmsted, Fred ()
    3. Olmsted, Mary ()
    4. Olmsted, Joseph Taylor (*1876 +1943)
    5. Olmsted, Corabel Thornton (*1879 Edinburg, Johnson? Co., IN +1957)
    6. Olmsted, Sarah ()



Texts: 

Joseph S. Olmsted  Civil War
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Military marker ...... B:B-169
J. S. Olmsted - CO I - 120 IND INF
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Joco DC: Joseph Olmsted - Age 56 - Laborer
Died 21 Jun 1903
Par: Wm. Olmsted = Elizabeth Staples
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ISA-5: Joseph S. Olmsted - PVT CO I - 120 Reg - 3 yrs
Enr:   11 Jan 1864 - Nashville IND - Lt. Calvin
Mus:   11 Mar 1864 - Indpls - Lt. Craft
Age: 28  Occ: Clerk
Dis:    8 Jan 1866 - Raleigh N.C.
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ISA-2-3: (1886 - 1890) Blue River Tp. Joco IND
JOEPH S. OLMSTED - PVT CO I - 120 REG IND VOL
Living in Edinburg in 1886 - 1890
5 Children under 16 in 1886
Contracted rheumatism in service--also heart
trouble and lumbago
- - - - -
GAR NO. 102: JOS. S. OLMSTED - Edbg -  Clerk - 44
b: KY
ENT GAR: ..... 1890
ENT SERV: 4th..... 1864  PRI CO I 120 IND
DISCH:    8th..... 1866  PRI CO I 120 IND
Cause of Discharge: END OF WAR
DIED: 21 Jun 1903
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SOURCE: BESSIE THORNTON, letter to OKT, 15 Nov 1991
Explaining:
"I'm sending a copy of information I found
when Wally and I took a quick trip to Indiana
early in Sept.

I went to a library in Edinburg, where our
Grandfather spent most of his life, to find out
where the cemetery was located.  They had a
geneology room, they knew the name, so I got
this information.  We also found the cemetery,
Rest Haven."


Censuses: 

 1880
T624 #359 (illegible) Edinburgh, Johnson Co., IN

Notes: 

Had two families
SOURCE: Clark Olmsted Thornton, verbal testimony, 1995
Was a Civil War soldier, only sixteen or so years at the time.
SOURCE: ORLENA KLICKMANN, letter to Tom Thornton, 1995
Drummer-boy, who marched through Georgia with Sherman
SOURCE: Clark Olmsted Thornton, verbal testimony, 1970s
1910 Census of Corabel (at Charles) Thornton
Root of Rebecca Ann Olmsted Ellerbrook's tree
SOURCE: Rebecca's, peaceb2u@seidata.com, e-mail to TLT, 14 Nov 1999