Ira P. Scofield

Ira P. Scofield served as a Corporal in Company I of the 145th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. At the time of his death in 1908, he was a resident of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home, now known as the Ohio Veterans Home. Ira P. Scofield is buried in Venice Cemetery.

Ohio Civil War Websites

 




















Pictured above is the monument at Castalia Cemetery which honors those who served in the Civil War from Margaretta Township, Erie County, Ohio. Here a few more websites related to the Civil War in Ohio.

• Downtown Oberlin Tour of Civil War Sites

• Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio

• Civil War Monuments in Ohio, from Cincinnati History Library and Archives

• Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery

• Ohio in the Civil War

• Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Monument in Milan, Ohio

• Civil War Heroes at Sandusky's Oakland Cemetery

Click here for information on how you can obtain a free brochure about Civil War destinations in and around Erie County, Ohio.

Mark Townsend, Civil War Veteran

According to the American Civil War Soldiers database, a part of the military databases of Ancestry Library Edition, Mark Townsend enlisted as a Private in the U.S. Army on October 8, 1863, at the age of 18. He entered Company I of the 12th Ohio Cavalry on November 24, 1863. Just a short time later, Mark Townsend died of disease in Sandusky, Ohio, on December 2, 1863. The Oakland Cemetery interment card states that Mark Townsend died of diphtheria. He was first buried in Block 31 at Oakland Cemetery, but later his remains were removed to the G.A.R. lot at Oakland, where he rests in peace along with many other Sandusky area Civil War veterans.

Another Ancestry Library Edition database is Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903. This database has a record of the tombstone being provided for Mark Townsend. It was created by W.H. & F.S. Gross of Lee, Massachusetts. Click here to read more about Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans. The National Archives has in its holdings 22 rolls of microfilm with more than 160,000 card records about these tombstones.

Civil War Monument at Castalia Cemetery

A statue of a Civil War soldier at the Castalia Cemetery in Margaretta Township of Erie County, Ohio, honors those who served our country.

Civil War Heroes at Oakland Cemetery, Sandusky, Ohio: Now at YouTube

Click here to view a video presentation of Civil War Heroes who were buried at Sandusky's Oakland Cemetery. Graves visited include: Louis Traub, Charles B. Dennis, Maurice Darnell, Emma Marshall, Dr. Robert McMeens, Anna McMeens, Jay Caldwell Butler, Isaac Skillman, Foster M. Follett, Leonard B. Johnson, Elijah Brown, and Horace Harper Bill.

Orin Aden Rice, Civil War Veteran

Orin Aden Rice was the son of Charles and Laura Rice. He served in Co. B of the 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. After the war, Orin worked as a conductor on the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad. He married Harriet Olivia Allen in January of 1868, according to Erie County Probate Court records.

On September 2, 1868 Orin was involved in a railroad accident in Licking County, Ohio. He died as a result of a skull fracture, which occurred when the train went under a trestle, Orin was caught between the top of the railroad car and the trestle. Orin Aden Rice was buried at Oakland Cemetery on September 3, 1868. He was survived by his wife and elderly mother. Mr. Rice's obituary is found in the Sandusky Register of September 2, 1868. Orin's widow later remarried, and she filed for Orin's Civil War pension in 1916, when she was living in Chicago, Illinois.

At the very top of the tombstone for Orin Aden Rice are the words: My Beloved Husband.

Wells W. Miller, Agriculturist and Teacher

Wells W. Miller was born in New York, but moved to Castalia in 1852. He served as a Captain in the Ohio 8th Infantry during the Civil War. Eventually he taught school in Castalia, Ohio. Mr. Miller was one of Ohio’s best known agriculturalists, serving as Ohio’s ninth Secretary of Agriculture.

Wells W. Miller and his wife Mary Caswell Miller are buried in Castalia Cemetery. A beautiful monument honors their memory. Mr. Miller died in 1906, and his wife passed away in 1913.

Charles Barney Dennis, Civil War Veteran

According to his death certificate, Charles Barney Dennis was born in Constantia, New York, in August of 1844, the son of Eben Dennis and Amanda Caldwell Dennis. A photocopy of a memoir of Charles Barney Dennis is on file at the library of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. The memoir states that Mr. Dennis was once the Postmaster of Sandusky, Ohio.
During the Civil War, Charles Barney Dennis served with Company B of the 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After the war, Mr. Dennis was associated with the Kelleys Island Lime and Transport Company, and later worked at a furniture factory in Findlay, Ohio. In the 1920's, Charles Barney Dennis was the treasurer of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home.

At the Sandusky History web site, Charles B. Dennis is pictured with several other young men of Sandusky in 1861. See the description of the Charles Barney Dennis memoir at the Hayes Presidential Center to learn more about the personal life and military service of Mr. Dennis.

In volume 4 of the Firelands Pioneer, C. B. Dennis wrote a biographical sketch of his father, Eben J. Davis, who was an early settler of the Firelands. Mr. Dennis wrote about his father: "He was a good representative of the long line of noble pioneers that have made the Western Reserve what it is: almost a Paradise."

Charles Barney Dennis died on May 28, 1928. He is buried in Sandusky's Oakland Cemetery. A G.A.R. symbol has been placed beside the tombstone of C. B. Dennis.

James Cross, Civil War Veteran

James Cornelius Cross was born March 14, 1843 to Charles Cross and Patience Manning Cross. His father was born in England, while Patience was a native of Kentucky. James Cross was a carpenter by trade, and was very active in the Catholic Church. He married Elizabeth Marshall, a German immigrant, who converted to Catholicism when she married James.

During the Civil War, James Cross served in Company G of the 123rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was a member of the McMeens Post of the G.A.R. in Sandusky. James Cross died on December 14, 1913, and is buried in St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery in Sandusky, Ohio.

The son of James and Elizabeth, Nicholas Charles Cross, became a brother in the Catholic Church. He taught school in Bardstown, Kentucky, and Peabody, Massachusetts.

General John Beatty

John Beatty was born in Erie County in 1828. He moved to Morrow County, where he was engaged in the banking business. During the Civil War, John Beatty served in the Third Ohio Infantry. Eventually he became a Brigadier General in the Civil War. He wrote a book about his experiences in the Civil War, entitled THE CITIZEN SOLDIER; OR MEMOIRS OF A VOLUNTEER. From 1868 through 1873, John Beatty was a United States Representative to Congress from Ohio’s 8th District.

John Beatty died December 21, 1914, and is buried in the Beatty family plot at Oakland Cemetery. His grandfather, also named John Beatty, was an early land speculator in Erie County, and was the Mayor of Sandusky from 1834 through 1836.

Louis Traub, Civil War Captain

Louis Traub was born in Germany on August 4, 1817. He came to the United States in 1835. After working as a tailor in New York City for several years, he moved to Ohio in 1844. Louis settled in Sandusky, Ohio in 1847. In Sandusky, Louis Traub continued in his tailoring business, and also opened a restaurant which was known as the "Hesse-Cassel" in the 1880's.

Prior to the Civil War, Louis Traub was the commander of Sandusky's "Jaeger Company," a local militia unit made up primarily of men of German descent. The old Jaeger Company was the basis for Company F of the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, led by Captain Louis Traub.

Louis Traub was involved in many business ventures and community organizations, which are chronicled in his obituary in the August 18, 1881 Sandusky Register. Louis Traub died on August 14, 1881. He was buried in Oakland Cemetery. He was survived by his widow, ten children, and twelve grandchildren. Many former soldiers from the Jaeger Company attended the funeral and burial of Louis Traub. Louis Traub's wife Barbara passed away in 1885, and she was buried with her husband at Oakland Cemetery.

See SANDUSKY THEN AND NOW, available at the Sandusky Library's Archives Research Center, to learn more about the German heritage of Sandusky.

Philo St. John

The tombstone of Philo St. John is located at Perkins Cemetery in Erie County. The inscription states that Philo St. John was fatally wounded at Lexington, Kentucky.

A biographical sketch of Alva St. John, Philo's brother, in HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY, OHIO, edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich, reports that Philo St. John was was son of James and Amarita St. John, and that Philo had enlisted in the Third Ohio Cavalry in 1861. See Google Books to read the History of the Service of the Third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry.