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Note: From Bill Rose:
Adopted "bond" child from an unknown background into that of a singleman, a cooper by trade who fed him and took care of him. William took on the name of the cooper and was known as William Thrush. (Therefore no know genealogy significant last name known)
Moved to Santa Rosa, California after the war; came by train with his son Forrest who was still quite small and with Nettie as well who was in her late teens. Carl Kuykendall told of the train trip and how William had made up some wood and nails hammer for Forrest to play with on the train trip.
William and Martha wound up living first at Inglenook, Mendocino County, California and then in Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California where he had built a home that is still standing into the 1990's.
William Thrush was admitted to the Veterans Home at Yontville 26 February, 1911 where he died 17 August 1911. He is buried in the
Veterans Home Cemetery. His registrar number was 5323. Occupation was listed as carpenter. He had been in the state of California for 35
years, died at age 81. Cause of his disability was a paralysis on the right side. His wife Martha stayed in Fort Bragg.
Joined Company E of the Iowa 19th Infantry; both company A and E were formed from men of Lee County and other companies from elsewhere. A book has been published containing letters from one William Henry Harrison Clayton, who joined Company H of the Iowa 19th. Letters begin as the Iowa 19th was assembled at Camp Lincoln in Keokuk, Iowa. It goes through their entire service and ends with their steamer trip home from Mobile, Alabama. Included is the insight tht the Iowa 19th was kicked off their first boat for being too drunk and had to wait for the next day. Although no specific mention is made of William Thrush, it does have a picture of particular interest of the 19th POW's being released from Camp Ford. William Thrush was among those of Company E of the 19th that was captured at the battle of Sterling's Plantation.
Eunice Drake related in her 1988 Christmas letter that her Daddy, Carl Kuykendall, remembered that his grandfather William Thrush was a cook in the army during the Civil War.
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