Edward was born in 1813. Edward Roe ... He passed away in 1893.
Father was a lawyer, gave that up and became a Swedenborgian[1] clergyman of some reputation in Ohio. [2]
According to granddaughter, Cordelia(Dollie) Roe Bartholmae Lundstrum:
"My grandfather was a remarkable man. He was a doctor and a hypnotist. He pioneered here from Philadelphia. On his way, he operated on a woman in a farm house. He drove the campaign route with horse and buggy for the candidate running for the governor of Illinois. The man was a drunkard and they took grandfather along to keep him from falling out of the buggy. He changed parties and was a republican. Grandpa didn't like alcohol. He thought it was poison and wouldn't even give it as medicine. He worked with republicans to get Lincoln elected president. Then the war came. He was a soldier by day and a doctor by night. He was a colonel and got shot with a cannon ball, in front of Vicksburg. He layed there all day in front of the guns on a hot day. They shot at him every time he moved. Everybody thought that he was dead. When they brought him in, his son was inside the camp. He ran out and Grandpa looked up at him and said "I am as good as a dozen dead men." He went home and that was the end of the war for him. He recovered and was the town marshal of Springfield, IL. Grandfather helped to start 2 colleges, The University Of Illinois and the Teacher's College. His picture hangs in the Illinois state building."[3]
Photgraphs
1876 - Photograph of Union soldier, E. R. Roe, who served in the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. He resided in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois at time of enlistment. [4]
~8 Nov 1893 - [8]
Oak Ridge Cemetery Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Block 10, 211. [9]
Books
Way, Virgil Gilman; Elliott, Isaac Hughes. (1902) History of the Thirty-Third Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-1865; Gibson City, Illinois: Regimental Association. No longer in copyright. [10]
Cathcart (D.D), William. (1883) The Baptist Encyclopaedia, A Dictionary (pp.1332-133). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Louis H. Everts. No longer in copyright. [2]
No Author (1894) The Portrait and Biographical Record of Randolph, Jackson, Perry and Monroe Counties, Illinois. (pp. 863-864) Chicago, Illinois: Biographical Publishing Company. Not in copyright. [11]
↑ "United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M85D-9W2 : accessed 04 Apr 2014), E R Roe, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois, United States; citing family 388, NARA microfilm publication M432.
↑ "United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MXHG-9YP : accessed 04 Apr 2014), Edward R Roe, 1st Ward Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, United States; citing "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," Fold3.com; p. 134, household ID 923, NARA microfilm publication M653; FHL microfilm 803204.
↑ "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M6H6-PWG : accessed 04 Apr 2014), Edward R Roe, Illinois, United States; citing p. 51, family 372, NARA microfilm publication M593, FHL microfilm 000545757.
↑ 8.08.1 "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1922," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N7JQ-Q3X : accessed 04 Apr 2014), Edward R. Roe, 06 Nov 1893; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Cemetery, 16148, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1030984.
↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 26 October 2020), memorial page for Col Edward R. Roe (1813–6 Nov 1893), Find A Grave: Memorial #24681135, citing Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA.
Roe-1025 was started by Lisa Horneck on 03 Apr 2014.
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