Ebenezer and Ellen White

In Hewson Peeke's A STANDARD HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY, OHIO, we read that Ebenezer White was born in Massachusetts, and his wife, Ellen Jones White, was born in New York State.

Ebenezer White moved to Ohio with his family when he was age thirteen, his father Capt. John White being a pioneer settler of Erie County. For six years, Ebenezer White served as Erie County Commissioner. He was active in farming in Groton Township of Erie County, where he was a township trustee and a justice of the peace. Ebenezer White died in 1885, and he is buried in Graves Cemetery, with his wife Ellen. Ebenezer White was survived by three children: Lizzie Zabst, Harriet Neill, and Daniel D. White. Many other early residents of Erie County's Groton Township are buried in Graves Cemetery, just south of Castalia.

Siram Jones, Veteran of 42nd U.S.C.T.

In 1900, Siram Jones was 60 years of age, and he was a resident of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, now known as the Ohio Veterans Home, in Erie County, Ohio. During the Civil War, Siram Jones served in Company D of the 42nd U.S.C.T. He enlisted in September of 1864, and was mustered out on October 8, 1865 in Huntsville, Alabama. On May 3, 1904, Siram Jones married Victoria Holden in Erie County, Ohio. In the 1910 U.S. Census, Siram was no longer at the Soldiers' Home, but was residing on Finch Street in Sandusky, Ohio, with his wife Victoria. Eventually Siram Jones became a widow, and he moved to California. According to the Historical Registers of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, accessible at Family Search, Siram Jones died at a Home for Disabled Soldiers in Sawtelle, California on August 4, 1927. He was buried at the Los Angeles National Cemetery. The life of Siram Jones had many chapters. Thank you for your military service, Mr. Jones!