Looking for family connections to Abraham Lincoln Sisk 1874-1916 Illinois

Question

The problem is that I can’t find ANY parents for A.L.! From my research, he seems to be quite a person. He served in the Philippines during the Spanish American War carrying a locket with his sweetheart/wife’s picture. He had 2 daughters and a stepdaughter that he was helping to raise. He was a postman and well-respected in his community. He unfortunately died young. I wondered if he might have contracted some tropical disease during his military service.

It is very odd, though, that I can find so little about Abraham Lincoln Sisk. I have something from the military when his widow signed up for a pension, but I’ve found him on no military roster regarding of how many name and initial combinations I try. The only census I’ve found him on is after his marriage and children. And I have a picture of his tombstone where they are both buried.

Answer 1

I edited this answer. I found this A L Sisk. Do you know the name of his spouse? 

A L Sisk

Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940

Name:	A L Sisk
Event Type:	Marriage
Event Date:	02 Nov 1902 • Edit
Event Place:	Mitchellsville, Saline, Illinois, United States • Edit
Event Place (Original):	Mitchellsville
Sex:	Male
Age:	28
Birth Year (Estimated):	1874
Father's Name:	A H Sisk
Mother's Name:	Hannah Wilson
Spouse's Name:	Ada Roe Mitchell
Spouse's Sex:	Female
Spouse's Age:	28
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated):	1874
Spouse's Father's Name:	Green Roe
Spouse's Mother's Name:	Delibah Carson

Comments

His father was a Mason and has a findagrave as well

Andrew Jackson Sisk
ID 26506251

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His spouse was Ada Bell Roe she is on his findagrave

ID 26506208

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father ANDREW JACKSON SISK

mother REBECCA HANNAH WILSON

Andrew J Sisk in the Illinois, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900 Name: Andrew J Sisk Gender: Male Spouse Name: Rebecca H Wilson Marriage Date: 10 Jan 1856 Marriage County: Saline Comments: This record can be found at the County Court Records, Film # 0965056 - 0965061. Source Information Ancestry.com. Illinois, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

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Andrew Jackson Sisk also served in the military

Name: Andrew J Sisk Rank: Sgt Birth Date: 14 Dec 1834 Unit: Co. F., 120th Inf., Illinois Enlistment Date: 21 Aug 1862 Discharge Date: 10 Sep 1865 Death Date: 3 Nov 1918 Cemetery: Cottage Grove Cemetery Location: Saline County, Illinois, USA Source Citation National Archives at St. Louis, MO; St. Louis, MO, USA; Applications for Headstones, 1/1/1925 - 6/30/1970; NAID: NAID 596118; Record Group Number: 92; Record Group Title: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General

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Name: Hanah Rebeca Sisk [Hanah Rebeca Wilson] Birth Date: 24 May 1837 Birth Place: KY Death Date: 17 Feb 1929 Death Place: Equality Village, Gallatin, Illinois Burial Date: 19 Feb 1929 Burial Place: Cottage Grove, Saline, Ill. Cemetery Name: Cottage Grove Death Age: 91 Occupation: Domestic Race: White Marital status: W Gender: Female Father Name: James Wilson Father Birth Place: KY Mother Name: Rebeca Prather Mother Birth Place: KY Spouse Name: Andrew Jackson Sisk FHL Film Number: 1643027 Source Information Ancestry.com. Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

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Name: Andrew J. Sisk Birth Date: 14 Dec 1834 Birth Place: Illinois Death Date: 4 Nov 1918 Death Place: Equality, Gallatin, Illinois Burial Date: 6 Nov 1918 Burial Place: Illinois Cemetery Name: Cottage Grove Death Age: 83 Occupation: Retired Farmer Race: White Marital status: M Gender: Male Father Name: Strutton Sisk Father Birth Place: USA Mother Name: Sallie Slaten Mother Birth Place: USA FHL Film Number: 1543998 Source Information Ancestry.com. Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

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Yes, I believe this is him, but I think the parents are wrong. On 1880 census, I can’t confirm that he is among children listed. Also, I have not found a birth certificate

Answer 2

He has a findagrave ID 26506221

Also a family tree I put on his profile

Answer 3

Have you considered that the listing in the 1880 census for Albert Sisk (Line 26) might be the enumerator's take on "A. L. Sisk?  He might have been called "Al." 

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXKX-DZV : 19 February 2021), Albert Sisk in household of A J Sisk, Cottage Grove, Saline, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 112, sheet 165A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,248.

That would make him the Ab [illegible] Sisk (Line 41 - b. 1874) of the 1900 census:

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSHX-QPW : accessed 27 March 2021), Ab Sio Sisk in household of A J Sisk, Cottage Township, Saline, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 79, sheet 5A, family 81, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,342.

Albert A. Sisk, as an individual in the Tree cited on Abraham Lincoln Sisk's WikiTree profile, has no sources other than these two censuses.  Perhaps he never existed apart from being a census-created alter ego for Abraham Lincoln Sisk.