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Note: He enlisted in Company D, 100th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 7/29/1862 at Camp Toledo. He was mustered out of the Army 6/20/1865 with distinguished honors for service rendered at Greensboro, North Carolina. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) and for ten years was the commander of Hartrauft Post, GAR #3, Guthrie, Oklahoma. He was the last commander. He belonged to the United Brethren Church.
He had six daughters, three of whom died before him.
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1860 US Census
Uriah Shasteen
Age: 15
Birthplace: Ohio
Home: Richland, Defiance, Ohio
Gender: Male
Roll: M653_947
Page: 323
Head of Household: Susannah Shasteen; Age: 61; Est Year of Birth: 1798; Birthplace: Virginia
Household:
Samul Shasteen; Age 27; Est Year of Birth:1832
Benj Shasteen; Age: 24; Est Year of Birth: 1835
Lewis Shasteen; Age: 21; Est Year of Birth: 1838
Harriet A. Shasteen; Age: 18; Est Year of Birth: 1841
Uriah Shasteen; Age: 15; Est Year of Birth: 1844
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1880 US Census 6/17/1880
Ohio, Henry County, Pleasant Township
Enumeration District: 118
Dwelling 168 Family 171
Uriah Shasteen
Age: 35
Birthplace: Ohio
Occupation: Farmer
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Head of Household: Self
Father's Birthplace: VA
Mother's Birthplace: VA
Other residents
Name Color Age
Wife Eliza J. W 30
Daughter Ivy W 10
Daughter Sarah W 6
Daughter Gertrude W 2
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He is listed in the 1907 Guthrie, Oklahoma directory with the address of 623 W. Warner Avenue. Also listed are his wife, Eliza J., and daughter. His daughter, Bertha, is listed as a boarder with the occupation of machine operator. His occupation is a teamster for J. B. Fairfield, a seller of wood and coal, moving, and storage. At that time he was listed with the West Side Congregational Church.
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1910 US Census
Uriah Shasteen
Age: 65
Est Birth Year: 1844
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1910: 1-WD Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma
Race: White
Gender: Male
Series: T624
Roll: 1260
Part: 1
Page: 28B
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He completed a questionaire for the Department of The Interior, Bureau of Pensions, 4/6/1915.
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1920 US Census
Shasteen, Uriah
Age: 75 Year: 1920
Birthplace: Ohio Roll: T625_1470
Race: White Page: 7B
State: Oklahoma ED: 49
County: Logan Image: 0704
Township: Guthrie
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1930 US Census
Shasteen, Uriah
Age: 85
Year: 1930 Birthplace: Ohio
Roll: T626_1912 Race: White
Page: 16A State: Oklahoma
ED: 7 County: Logan
Image: 0156 Township: Guthrie Relationship: Head
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Service record of the 100th Regiment, Ohio Infantry
Organized at Toledo, Ohio, July to September, 1862. Ordered to Cincinnati, Ohio, September 8, thence to Covington, Ky., and duty there till October 8. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to October, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Kentucky, to January, 1863. District of Central Kentucky, Dept. Ohio, to June, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army Ohio, to July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to August, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, to February, 1865. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.-Ordered to Lexington, Ky., October 8, 1862, thence to Richmond, Ky., December 1, and to Danville, Ky., December 26. To Frankfort, Ky., January 3, 1863. Duty at various points in Central Kentucky till August. Expedition to Monticello and operations in Southeastern Kentucky April 26-May 12. Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee August 16-October 17. Telford Station and Limestone September 8. (240 men captured at Telford Station while guarding railroad.) Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23. Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 5. Pursuit to Blain's Cross Roads. Duty at Blain's Cross Roads till April, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Cartersville May 20. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Muddy Creek June 17. Noyes Creek June 19. Cheyney's Farm June 22. Near Marietta June 23. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August 5-7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Duty at Decatur till October 4. Pursuit of Hood into Northern Alabama October 4-26. Nashville Campaign November-December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. At Clifton, Tenn., till January 16, 1865. Movement to Washington, D. C., thence to Federal Point, N. C., January 16-February 9. Fort Anderson February 18-19. Town Creek February 19-20. Capture of Wilmington February 22. Campaign of the Carolinas March-April. Advance on Goldsboro, N. C., March 6-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 21. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Near Raleigh April 13. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty at Greensboro, N. C. till June. Mustered out June 20, and discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 1, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 90 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 6 Officers and 268 Enlisted men by disease. Total 317.
Battle of Utoy Creek
The battle began at about 10:00, when Cox`s division met the advanced skirmishers of Bate`s Division. Bate was so well entrenched that in order to get the Federal`s to fight he need to lure them in. The battle commenced near the intersection of what is now Willis Creek Rd. and Cascade Rd. near East Point Ga. Through the night the Confederates felled trees about 4 ft off the ground and interlaced them together. This made it nearly impossible to enter the works. In fact the 8th Tennessee was the only regiment to make the works, only to be captured and lose their colors. The 8th Tenn. was in reserve with 5 companies of the 104th Ohio. The initial attack made by the 100th, 16th Ky. and the 112th Ill. . The brigade lost 306 men plus 2 regimental flags. Bate's losses were reported very light some 15-20 in all. After the charge, the men had to literally crawl out of the thickets to get back to the lines. The Confederates knowing the men were trapped or crawling out kept firing through the night. The wounded and dead were left out on the field all night and most of the next day. Isaac Metzger was one of those wounded left on the field. Isaac had two broken legs, shot in the shoulder, hand and thorax. He laid there all night, the Rebs took his boots and his hat against his pleadings. The next day the right flank was finally taken by the 14th Corps and he among others was taken into our lines. He died that day. The 100th would have a hard time recovering from Utoy but the war wouldn't wait for them. They stayed in and around Atlanta for the next month.
The 100th charged the works held by Hardee's Corps, William B. Bate's Division, Tylers Brigade:
37th Georgia
2nd Tenn.
10th Tenn.
15th Tenn.
37th Tenn.
20th Tenn.
30th Tenn.
4th Georgia Battalion Sharpshooters
The casulties that the brigade took were as follows(records taken from the Offical Records Gen. Reilly's report):
104th Ohio ------10 killed 19 wounded 0 missing
112th Illinois-----14 killed 54 wounded 0 missing
16th Kentucky-----2 killed 10 wounded 1 missing
100th Ohio-------34 killed 54 wounded 9 missing
8th Tennessee----26 killed 53 wounded 16 missing
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The following articles were in the newspaper:
The Defiance Democrat; Defiance, Ohio; November 25, 1880, p.3:
North Richland Items
Uriah Shasteen, from Henry County, has moved near Jewell.
The Defiance Democrat; Defiance, Ohio; March 15, 1883, p.3:
Kerosene the Cause of Another Fire - Jewell the Unlucky Town
Jewell, O., March 12, 1883. About two o`clock last Friday afternoon, the town of Jewell was thrown into a terrible state of excitement, caused by the blowing of the whistle on Trowbridge & Co's. stave factory, for the burning of a dwelling house in which Uriah Shasteen and family were comfortably living. By the use of buckets and considerable hard work, the flames were stopped. Had the wind been blowing in a north easterly direction, nothing could have saved the stave factory of Trowbridge & Co., and their entire stock of staves and heading would have been destroyed. Uriah Shasteen's loss of furniture and clothing will amount to $250. Everything was burned except a sewing machine. Mrs. S. and one child barely escaped with their lives; she was driven from her home by the fiery demon, without a shoe on her feet. We have as yet not ascertained whether there was any insurance on the building or not. The house is said to be worth about $200. The damage on staves will be small. The cause of the fire so far as we can learn is as follows: In the afternoon Mrs. Shasteen, not feeing very well, thought she would lay down awhile and rest. After she was fast asleep a four year old child took the coal oil can and going to the stove, proceeded to ignite it. After the oil caught, the child, becoming alarmed, ran to its mother, and she upon being awakened was so frightened that she took the can from the child and threw it on the floor where the flames spread with great rapidity. The mother thinking she could smother the flames with clothing, ran to an adjoining room to procure some, but upon returning found the flames under such headway that it was an impossibility to check them. She then ran outside and gave the alarm, which was responded to promptly, but too late to save anything. Immediately after the fire a subscription paper was started and the neat sum of one hundred and thirty dollars was subscribed and over one hundred has already been paid, which speaks well of our little place, and was highly appreciated by Mr. and Mrs. Shasteen.
-Flora May.
The Defiance Democrat; Defiance, Ohio; December 31, 1885, p.3:
Real Estate Transfers
John Shoup to Soloman Rummell, 20 acres in Richland township.
Uriah Shasteen to Wilber A. Rummell, 20 acres in Richland township.
Jewell
Wilbur Rummell has purchased 20 acres of land of Uriah Shasteen. Consideration $150.
Uriah attended these reunions of the 100th Ohio:
1879 Toledo
1890 Bryan
He was a Councilman in Jerry City in 1895.
He was the Adjutant of the Bronson Post, GAR # 85, in 1886, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1894, and 1895. He was the Commander of the Bronson Post, GAR # 85, in 1888.
The Leader Monday, July 8, 1907
Uriah Shasteen was awarded a government pension of $12
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