Samuel Rinard (1842 - 1929)

Born 25 Jul 1842 in Ohio

Ancestors

Husband of Eliza Jane (Young) Rinard — married 23 Dec 1866 in Wabash Co., Indiana

Descendants

Died 31 Mar 1929 at age 86 in Mishawaka, Indiana

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Biography

Private Samuel Rinard served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 21 December 1861
Mustered out: 23 October 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): 47th Regiment, Indiana Infantry

Samuel names Ohio as his place of birth on all censuses found. His obituary states "Muncie, O." (Ohio?) as his place of birth, but no such town in Ohio exists?

[POSSIBLE - There is a tax record from 1848 in Grandview Township, Washington County, Ohio that lists Samuel and Isaac Rinard. The town of Matamoros is in Grandview Twp., and Muskingum Twp. is also in Washington Co. (Maybe one of those place is supposed to be Muncie, OH.?)]^[1]

[POSSIBLE - the 1850 census has an Ohio Rinard family that includes a 24 year old Samuel, that may be related?]^[2]

Samuel served as a Private with Company I, of the 47th Regiment, Indiana Infantry. A roster for the company shows Samuel (residence: Wabash) mustered in on 12 December 1861 and mustered out a veteran on 23 October 1865.^[3][4]

Regimental History - 47th Indiana Infantry

Forty-seventh Indiana Infantry. — Cols., James R. Slack, John A. McLaughlin; Lieut. -Cols., Milton S. Robinson, John A. McLaughlin, Sextus A. Shearer; Majs., Samuel S. Mickle, John A. McLaughlin, Lewis H. Goodwin, Sextus A. Shearer, William H. Vance. This regiment was organized at Anderson and was mustered in Dec. 13, 1861. It left the state the same day for Bardstown, Ky., where it was assigned to Gen. Wood's brigade of Buell's army. It moved to Camp Wickliffe, arriving there Dec. 31, and for West Point on Feb. 14, 1862, taking transports there for Commerce, Miss. It was engaged at New Madrid, being the first regiment to enter Fort Thompson, was in the engagement at Riddle's point between the shore batteries and the enemy's gunboats, and then moved to Tiptonville, Tenn. It was at Memphis during July and participated in a skirmish at Brown's plantation in August. It then moved to Helena, Ark., where it remained until March, 1863, then joined the Yazoo pass expedition, after which it moved to the rear of Vicksburg, engaging in the battles and skirmishes of that campaign. At Champion's hill it lost 143 in killed and wounded and was constantly engaged in the trenches before Vicksburg until the surrender. It was also engaged in the battle at Jackson, moved to New Orleans in August and thence to Berwick bay. In the Teche expedition it was engaged at Grand Coteau, and then moved to New Iberia, where it reenlisted and visited home in Feb., 1864. It took part in the Red River expedition in the spring of 1864, was engaged at Atchafalaya bayou in July, and was stationed at Morganza most of the fall. Col. Slack was appointed brigadier-general Dec. 31, 1864, and Lieut. -Col. McLaughlin was commissioned colonel. The regiment was transported to Dauphin island, near Mobile, in Feb., 1865, and took an active part in the siege of that city. After Mobile's fall, it moved to Shreveport, La., with Gen. Herron, who received the surrender of Gen. Price and the army of the trans-Mississippi department. The regiment was mustered out at Shreveport Oct. 23, 1865. Its original strength was 977; gain by recruits, 362; reenlistments, 409; total, 1,748. Loss by death, 312; desertion, 62; unaccounted for, 20. ^[5]

Records showed Samuel filed for a pension related to his service with the 47th Indiana while he was in Michigan on 27 April 1888 (though he should have been in Indiana by 1881 - some discrepancy here). Later pension records record him as having suffered a gunshot wound to the head, diseases of the respiratory organs and measles.^[6][7][8]

On 23 December 1866, Samuel married Eliza Jane Young in Wabash, Ind.^[9]

On the 1880 census, Samuel is listed as a stone and brick mason living in Mishawaka, Ind. with his wife, two daughters (Erma May, 4, and Cora, 2) and two sons (Francis, 8, and William, 3 mos.). He says he and both his parents were born in Ohio.^[10]

On the 1900 Census, Samuel, 54, is a Brick Mason living at 321 W> Battell St., Mishawaka, IN. He is listed as having been born in Ohio, along with his mother, and his father from Pennsylvania. He has been married for 31 years to his wife Eliza, 48 (b. IN, mother: "Un", father: IN), and three of his children are living at home with him: Willie, 21; Edith, 17; and Freddie, 15. All children are listed as day laborers and were born in Indiana.^[11]

(The obituary of Freddie says he was born in Bloomfield, MI, not Indiana, however)^[12]

By the 1910 census Samuel is 68, and living in Mishawaka with his wife and two grandchildren, Merie Griffis (9) and William H. Griffis (5). They are the children of Samuel's deceased daughter Erma Mae. This time Samuel says his father was born in Germany and his mother South Carolina.^[13]

South Bend News-Times January 2, 1917 RIVER PARK Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rinard, Battell st., Mishawaka, were tendered a surprise Sunday in honor of their golden wedding anniversary, by 22 members of the family. Dinner was served at noon, and Mr. and Mrs. Rinard were presented with a chest of silver. The children present were Mr. and Mrs. William Rinard, River Park; Frank Rinard, Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rinard, and Mrs. John Clatz of Mishawaka; also eight granschildren and two great grandchildren. Mr. Rinard is 75 years old and Mrs. Rinard 65. They have lived in Mishawaka for 37 years. Mr. Rinard was a member of company I, 47th Indiana regiment, and was in active service more than four years, and was wounded twice while in service. Mr. Rinard is a mason by trade, but is retired from active life, and spends much of his time carving articles from wood. One piece which is highly prized is a violin carved from apiece of curly maple from his father's farm in Ohio.^[14]

On the 1920 census he says his father was born in Germany and his mother Pennsylvania.^[15]

Obituary SAMUEL RINARD, VETERAN, DIES Man, Age 87, Had Been Resident of City For Past 48 Years Samuel Rinard. age 87, of 317 West Battell greet, a resident of Mishawaka for 48 years and a veteran of the civil war, died at 11:30 o'clock Sunday morning in his home. He had been failing in health for the past five years. Mr. R1nard was born in Muncie. 0 . July 25, 1842, and came to Mishawaka 48 years ago from Michigan. His marriage to Miss Eliza Young, who died five years ago, took place December 23, 1866. The deceased was a brick mason by trade, and was a member of Company I, 47th regiment of the Indiana infantry in the civil war. Surviving him are three sons and one daughter. Frank, of Fort Wayne. Ind.; William of South Bend, Fred of Cassopolis, Mich., and Mrs. Cora Kronewitter at home; one half-brother, Amos Hall of Lakeville, Ind.; 10 grandchildren, and 22 great-grand-children. The body may be viewed in the Sprague funeral home Tuesday and Wednesday. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Sprague chapel, the Rev. Grant M. Barton, of the Nazarene church, officiating. Burial will take place in the city cemetery. The Daughters of Union Veterans will have charge of the services at the grave, and members of the American legion will be pallbearers. ^[16]

Samuel's grave stone in the Mishawaka City Cenetery is incorrectly engraved - it lists the year of his death as 1939, when it was actually 1929.^[17]

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Amos Hall is listed as a half-brother in his obituary. Obituaries for Amos Hall's other siblings can be found here and here (This second obituary for John Hall lists "Samuel Rinner" of Mishawaka as a brother - so this is likely another half-brother). They indicate Amos' parents were Daniel and Eva Hall in Warren, IN (Huntington Co.) (or in neighboring Wabash Co.) Is Eva Samuel's mother? Her linked FindAGrave says she was born 1842, but the photo of her gravestone says 1825, which makes it possible.

More information on Eva Hall here: "Saturday evening, Mrs. Eva Hall, living five miles south of the city, expired after an illness mostly due to advanced age. The deceased was a sister of David Coble of the south side. The funeral was held this afternoon at two o'clock from her late home. Interment in Ogan Cemetery." Taken from the Wabash Plain Dealer in Wabash, Indiana .......... Monday, July 14, 1902.

(Additional information: She was the daughter of Eli Coble and Rebecca Turner (see here and here). .... She was born 6 April 1824 in Preble County or Darke County, Ohio ... She died July 12, 1902 in Wabash County, Indiana. .... She was married to Daniel L. Hall on July 5, 1852 in Darke County, Ohio. Daniel was born in 1823 in North Carolina and died December 10, 1863 in Wabash County, Indiana. .... They were the parents of seven children: John Henry Hall; Mary Ann Hall; Amos Hall; Daniel Hall; Samuel Rinner Hall; Beckie Hall; and Louisa Jane Hall.)

So, here, "Samuel Rinner Hall" is probably actually Samuel Rinard - who was born to Eva when she was 19 in 1842, and before she married David Hall in 1852.

Tracking Eva Coble, she is listed on the death certificate of a Rebecca Hurne, b. 1843 in Springfield, OH to Eva Coble and William Rinard - who is the likely father of Samuel.

Here is a lead on William Rinard: "William H Rinard was born abt 1823 in Penn. He married Eva Cable 1841 in Dark county Ohio they had one son named David who died in Michigan 1909. They were divorced after 1844 and he remaried in Michigan to Mary Farmer in 1869. Looks like he had a son in MI named Charles in 1850 born in NY or MI according to two different census. Need any info on him and his kids."

More info on William H. Rinard and his various families here.

Sources

1. ↑ "Ohio Tax Records, 1800-1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JS48-V6P : accessed 16 April 2016), Samuel Rinard, 1848; citing Grandview Township, Washington, Ohio, p. 8, Historical Society Library, Columbus; FHL microfilm 945,371.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX38-RPL : accessed 16 April 2016), Isaac Rinard in household of Nancy Rinard, Grandview, Washington, Ohio, United States; citing family 86, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ "United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F953-JNB : accessed 16 April 2016), Samuel Rinard, Private, Company I, 47th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, Union; citing NARA microfilm publication M540 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 64; FHL microfilm 881,785.
4. ↑ Roster for 47th Indiana see p. 445: accessed 04/16/2016
5. ↑ 47th Indiana Regimental History: accessed 04/16/2016
6. ↑ "United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDG-152T : accessed 16 April 2016), Samuel Rinard, 1888.
7. ↑ "United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDQ-4FMF : accessed 16 April 2016), Samuel Rinard, 1907-1933; citing NARA microfilm publication M850 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,635,932.
8. ↑ "United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDQ-4FMN : accessed 16 April 2016), Samuel Rinard, 1907-1933; citing NARA microfilm publication M850 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,635,932.
9. ↑ "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27KG-VVV : accessed 16 April 2016), Samuel Rinard and Eliza Jane Young, 23 Dec 1866; citing Wabash, Indiana, United States, various county clerk offices, Indiana; FHL microfilm 2,314,126.
10. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHSZ-82Z : accessed 16 April 2016), Samuel Rinard, Mishawaka, St Joseph, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district ED 159, sheet 310A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0308; FHL microfilm 1,254,308.
11. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M99M-9YY : accessed 24 June 2019), Samuel Rinard, Penn Township Mishawaka city Ward 4, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 115, sheet 6B, family 131, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,401.
12. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 June 2019), memorial page for Fred Rinard (1885–12 May 1963), Find A Grave Memorial no. 75720415, citing Fairview Cemetery, Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana, USA ; Maintained by C & Y Zinn-Haines (contributor 47043207) .
13. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK5K-Q4D : accessed 16 April 2016), Samuel Rinard, Penn, St Joseph, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 154, sheet 2B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,390.
14. ↑ Rinard anniversary article. 1917. South Bend News-Times, January 2, 1917.
15. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF46-T1H : accessed 16 April 2016), Samuel Rinard, Mishawaka, St Joseph, Indiana, United States; citing sheet 17B, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,462.
16. ↑ Samuel Rinard Obituary. 1929. South Bend Tribune, April 1, Sec. 2, p. 16
17. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19537977/samuel-rinard : accessed 23 June 2019), memorial page for Samuel Rinard (25 Jul 1842–31 Mar 1939), Find A Grave Memorial no. 19537977, citing Mishawaka City Cemetery, Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana, USA ; Maintained by Scabbardfish (contributor 46844274) .