Lewis K. Cole (1828 - 1865)

Born 1828 in Honesdale, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 18 Mar 1865 at about age 37 in Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Lewis was born in 1828 in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Josiah Cole and Charlotte Brown.^[1]

In about 1860 he married Delia, possibly also a Cole. They had two children, Emory Lincoln Cole, b. 1861, and Charlotte M. Cole, b. 1863.

Lewis Cole served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 23 Sep 1864
Mustered out: 18 March 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): 76th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry

Private Lewis Cole was killed by gunshot wounds during United States Civil War.

On 23 Sep 1864, he enlisted in Co. G, Pennsylvania 76th Infantry. He was wounded the following Spring at Fort Fisher in North Carolina and died in a hospital in Wilmington.^[2][3][4] He is likely buried at Wilmington National Cemetery, probably as "Pvt. L.R. Cole."^[5][6]

Census:
1850 Texas Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania^[7]
1860 Texas Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania^[8]

Research Notes

Lewis Cole is probably buried in Wilmington National Cemetery in the grave marked with the headstone for "Pvt. L.R. Cole, PA."^[5] The Register of Deaths of Volunteers includes an entry for Pvt. Lewis K. Cole and another for Pvt. L.R. Cole. However, both men were members of Company G of the 76th Pennsylvania Infantry, both were injured by gun shot and both died in hospital on 18 March 1865 in Wilmington, North Carolina.^[3]

It is not impossible that two men with similar names were in the same company and were casualties of the same battle. Both dying on the same day, seems unlikely. Only L.R. Cole has a headstone in Wilmington. No separate burial location for Lewis K. Cole has been found. A 1937 application for a replacement headstone for L.R. Lewis has a notation by the War Department that he was "not identified."^[5] This suggests that they did not find him on muster roles or in other records.

Sources

1. ↑ Will of Josiah Cole, 25 January 1859, proved 11 July 1874, Texas Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, Wills, vol. 3, p. 96–98, no. 1552, images 55–56 of 621, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8991-L9WD-8?i=54&cc=1999196&cat=89411, citing Wayne County Courthouse.
2. ↑ 1890 United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, Honesdale, Wayne, Pennsylvania, 1890, SD 5, ED 82, p, 3, family 423, Delia Cole widow of Lewis K. Cole, line 35, , image 78 of 79, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-55S4-GQ, citing NARA microfilm publication M123.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Death record of Lewis K. Cole, 18 March 1865, G H [General Hospital?], Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, image 187 of 195, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/275235:2123, citing Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, compiled 1861–1865, NAID: 656639, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780s–1917,Record Group 94, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
4. ↑ Mathews, Alfred, "History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania," Philadelphia: R.T. Peck & Company, 1886, https://archive.org/details/historyofwaynepi00math/mode/2up, p. 367
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Headstone replacement application for Pvt. L.R. Cole, Co. G, Pennsylvania 76th Infantry, "not identified," , 1 Apil 1937 (application), Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, National Cemetery Interment Control Form, Grave 1636, Wilmington National Cemetery, , image 628 of 897, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2104600:2590, Interment Control Forms, 1928–1962. Interment Control Forms, A1 2110-B. NAID: 5833879. Record Group 92, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774–1985, National Archives at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
6. ↑ Photograph, headstone of Pvt. L.R. Cole, Pennsylvania, Civil War burials, Sect.1, Lot 1636, Wilmington National Cemetery, Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, photograph by Marcus Stanley (contributor ID 46925834), Find a Grave Memorial ID 30752148, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30752148/l-r-cole.
7. ↑ 1850 United States Census, Texas Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, 19 Sept 1850, family 310, household of Josiah Cole, lines 31–40, image 448 of 543, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6SG9-BJ, citing National Archives and Records Administration.
8. ↑ 1860 United States Census, Texas Twp, Wayne, Pennsylvania, 25 June 1860, p. 88, family 650, Josiah Cole, lines 30–33, family 649, Reynolds Cole, lines 21–29, and family 647, Peter J. Cole, lines 10–13, image 351 of 405, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBSZ-9GVC, citing NARA microfilm publication M653.

See also:

• FamilySearch profile KZ1J-3VC https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/KZ1J-3VC