Zachariah Lewis Main Jr. (1830 - 1907)

Born 14 Aug 1830 in Monroe County, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Elizabeth (Broshar) Main — married 16 Feb 1851 in Ripley County, Indiana

Died 26 Sep 1907 at age 77 in Moravia, Appanoose, Iowa, United States

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Biography

Lewis Main Jr. lived in Appalachia, in Ohio.

Zachariah "Lewis" MAIN, Jr., born 14 Aug 1830, Jackson Twp. Monroe Co. OH; died 26 Sep 1907, Moravia IA, interment Salem Cemetery, Iconium, Appanoose Co. IA

Lewis MAIN enlisted at the age of 32 from Moravia, Appanoose County, Iowa, for service during the Civil War on August 9, 1862. He was mustered into service as a Private on October 4, 1862 with Company of of the 36th Iowa Infantry. Private MAIN was mustered out of service on August 24, 1865 a Devall's Bluff, Arkansas. - American Civil War Soldiers Database, ancestry.com

MAIN, LEWIS, JR., farmer, Sec. 12; P. 0. Moravia; born in Monroe Co., Ohio, August, 1830. When four years of age, his father, Lewis, Sr., removed to Ripley Co., Ind., cleared a farm and wore it out; came to Appanoose [County, Iowa] in 1855, and settled where he now resides, in Taylor Tp.; his mother, Elizabeth (nee FUNKHAUSER or FUNKHOUSER), was born in Pennsylvania in 1802, and died in this county in 1867. In 1851, in Ripley Co., Ind., Lewis MAIN married Miss Mary E. BROSHER; born in Indiana in 1833 ; in the fall of 1855, came to this county, where he first purchased 110 acres, now owns 323 acres, valued at 820 per acre; have eight children: Alice J., John E., Zacharias L., Levi M., Mary E., Reuben F., Flora E. and Ludocia E. Republican. Holds the office of School Director. Enlisted in the 36th Iowa V. I., Co. F., Aug. 9, 1862; was at Shell Mound, Helena, Mark's Mill, Prairie de Ann, Little Rock, Elkins' Ford, Jenkins' Ford, Spring Mound and others; mustered out at Duvall's Bluff, August, 1865. - The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Western Historical County, Chicago. 1878

LEWIS MAIN, a prominent old settler and active farmer of Chariton Township, Appanoose County, residing on section 12, was born in Monroe County, Ohio, August 14, 1830. He was reared on a farm and educated in the schools of Ripley County, Indiana, to which county his parents had removed when he was four years of age. He was married in February, 1851, to Mary E. BROSHAR, who was born and reared in Ripley County, and they are the parents of four sons and four daughters: Alice J., wife of Isaac McCOY; John E., Zack L., Levi W., Mary E. (wife of Edwin HOSKINSON), Reuben F., Flora E. and Stella, living at home. Mr. MAIN left Ripley County, Indiana, in the fall of 1855, coming with his family to Appanoose County, Iowa, when he located on his present farm which contains 275 acres of choice land. He is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, and is one of the most successful hog-raisers in his neighborhood. He takes an interest in educational matters, and has served as school director.

In 1862 he enlisted in the Union Army, in the Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry, and served faithfully for three years without receiving a wound, although he endured many hardships and privations. He participated in the battles of Little Rock, Helena, Elkin Ford, Mark’s Mill, at which place he was taken prisoner, April 25, 1864. He was then taken to Texas and imprisoned at Camp Ford, where he was confined ten months, where his principal food consisted of corn bread and water. He was paroled while in prison, and sent to the mouth of the Red River, where he was exchanged, after which he was sent to New Orleans, where he drew a suit of clothes. He was then furloughed for thirty days, when he returned to his regiment at St. Charles, Arkansas. He was mustered out at Duvall’s Bluffs, Arkansas, and was discharged at Davenport, Iowa, in 1865.

Our subject’s father, Lewis MAIN, was a native of Wheeling, West Virginia, born October 14, 1800, and was married in 1820, to Elizabeth FuNKHOUSER (sic), mother of our subject. She was born in Pennsylvania, in 1802. They were the parents of eleven children, five sons and six daughters, of whom only one son is deceased. This son, Charles B., was killed during the late war, at the battle of Mark’s Mill, in 1864. Lewis MAIN, the father, came to Appanoose County, Iowa, in the fall of 1861, where his wife died in 1867. His death occurred in Chariton Township, Appanoose County, January 18, 1885.

Title

Title: Jr.

Source

This "MAIN Family Record" was written by Charles E. MAIN in July 1935 while he was recuperating from a broken leg. The accident in which he was injured happened at the Dalbey Lumber Yard where he was employed. Although he recovered from the broken leg, his death - caused by a blood clot - occurred on January 23, 1936.

The record was copied for Franklin MAIN on August 24, 1952 by Dorothy MAIN, daughter of Charles E. MAIN.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: For ease of reading, this record was retyped, 1 Jun 2009, by Julie Ann (PRENTIS) WATTS (Patricia Ann MAIN (1), Weldon C. MAIN (2), John Dwight MAIN (3), Josephus MAIN (4), Zachariah Lewis MAIN (5), Daniel M. MAIN (6)).

- Biographical and Historical Record of Wayne and Appanoose Counties, Iowa, page 590. 1886; American Civil War Soldiers' Database at ancestry.com

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Western Historical County, Chicago. 1878

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