Joseph A Bales (1825 - 1908)

Born 31 Jul 1825 in Highland, OH

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Died 19 Feb 1908 at age 82 in Lansford, Bottineau, North Dakota, USA

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Biography

When Joseph A. Bales was born on July 31, 1825, in Highland City, Ohio, his father, John, was 22 and his mother, Martha, was 19. He married Nancy D. Swank on October 18, 1846, in Williamsport, Indiana. They had 13 children in 25 years. He died on March 28, 1908, in Lansford, North Dakota, having lived a long life of 82 years.

Enlisted in Company K, Iowa 39th Infantry Regiment on 22 Aug 1862. Promoted to Full 5th Corporal. Promoted to Full 3rd Corporal. He was captured by Confederate troops on 5 Oct 1864 at Altoona, GA and held at Andersonville Prison until the end of the war. Mustered out on 09 Jun 1865 at Camp Chase, OH.

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• Year: 1850; Census Place: Liberty, Warren, Indiana; Roll: M432_178; Page: 32B; Image: 32B; Image: 379
• Year: 1860; Census Place: Hamilton, Decatur, Iowa; Roll: M653_318; Page: 109; Family History Library Film: 803318
• Year: 1870; Census Place: Butler, Vermilion, Illinois; Roll: M593_285; Page: 32A; Family History Library Film: 545784
• Year: 1880; Census Place: Middlefork, Vermilion, Illinois; Roll: 255; Family History Film: 1254255; Page: 505D; Enumeration District: 217
• Year: 1900; Census Place: Walnut, Bourbon, Kansas; Roll: 471; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 0052; FHL microfilm: 1240471
• Side served: Union; State served: Iowa; Enlistment date: 22 Aug 1862

Source Information Historical Data Systems, comp.. American Civil War Soldiers [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, MA form the following list of works. Copyright 1997-2000 Historical Data Systems, Inc. PO Box 35 Duxbury.

• Illinois State Archives; Springfield, Illinois; Illinois State Census, 1865; Archive Collection Number: 103.010; Roll Number: 2174; Line: 1

Source Information

• Warren County, Indiana; Marriage Record Book 3: March 1846 - January 1853, Part I - Grooms Part II - Brides; Page: 520
• Ancestry.com. Kansas, Enrollment of Civil War Veterans, 1889 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

Original data: Enrollment of Ex-Soldiers and Sailors, their Widows and Orphans, 1889. Unit ID #190462, 69 volumes. Records of the Adjutant General’s Office. Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas.

• Ancestry.com. Kansas, Grand Army of the Republic Post Reports, 1880-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.

Original data: Kansas Grand Army of the Republic Post Reports, 1880-1943. Topeka, Kansas: Kansas Historical Society. Loose paper, 104 boxes.

• Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Original data: Original sources vary according to directory. The title of the specific directory being viewed is listed at the top of the image viewer page. Check the directory title page image for full title and publication information.

• Ancestry.com. Web: US, Andersonville and Fort McHenry Civil War Prisoner Index, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Soldier and Sailors Database. Prisoners. National Park Service. http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-prisoners.htm: accessed 9 October 2015. Source Information

• Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.

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