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Note: Ransom P. Stowe was a seventeen-year-old (14?) student from Perry (Pike County), Illinois, when he enlisted in Company I of the 33rd Illinois Infantry on
September 5, 1861. He reenlisted as a veteran early in 1864 and was discharged
on June 9, 1865, at Meridian, Mississippi, for disability. (Boys in Blue, Images of Civil War Soldiers, p58, from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, by Mary Michals)
Ransom Stowe applied for a pension on June 19, 1877 (#237852) and his widow, Delia S., applied on November 4, 1908 (#907405). He died October 28, 1908 at the age of 61 years.
1880 Census: Ransom P. Stowe, 33, born Vermont, works on farm, born Vermont, father Vermont, mother: Connecticut; wife Harriet H., 36, born Illinois, father born Pennsylvania, mother born Kentucky; Edith M. 12; Jacob H. 4; Ann P. 2; mother-in-law Lucy A. Hall, 80, born Kentucky, father born Virginia, mother born Pennsylvania; living in Chesterfield, Macoupin Co., Illinois (film T9_0232, p153C)
1900 Census: Ransom P. Stowe, 42, Dec 1847, born Vermont, father Vermont, mother Connecticut; wife Delia L, 34; living in Springfield, Illinois (film T623_343, ED101, p15B, 14 Jun)
Illinois State Register 29 Oct 1908
"I am going to do it, the spirit has told me to." After repeating the above words to his wife, Ransom P. Stowe, aged 60 years, shot himself through the head at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his residence on the Clear Lake road just at the edge of the city. According to statements of his relatives, the deceased had often threatened to take his life. Yesterday his wife was in Rochester and on her return home, Stowe met her and repeated the words. She had barely reached her home when she heard the report of a revolver. The decedent was born in Waybridge, Vt., December 16, 1847, and came to Illinois fifty-three years ago. At the age of 14 years he enlisted in Company 1, Thirty-Third Illinois Volunteers, and served four years. He was one of the youngest men that served in the Civil war. The decedent married Alita Van Pelt, twenty-three years ago. He is survived by his wife; one son, Jacob H. Stowe, of Texas; one daughter, Mrs. Nina Rochemnie, of Wisconsin. He was a member of Stevenson Post No. 30, G.A.R. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the residence. Chaplain J. M. Stevenson, of Stevenson Post, will officiate, assisted by Rev. C. C. Sinclair, pastor of Stuart Street Christian church. The interment will be made in Oak Ridge cemetery. The ladies of the G.A.R. will hold flag services at the house and the members of Stevenson Post will hold services at the grave. IL State Journal, Springfield, IL 10-29-1908 Despondency caused by injuries from being shot in his spine during the civil war was given as the cause of the suicide of Ransom Stowe, who took his own life on Wednesday evening by shooting in the temple. The suicide of the old soldier followed a life in which he had fought hard and was full of pathetic incidents. Coroner Woodruff's jury held an inquest yesterday morning.
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