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Note: , with Company C, 70th Illinois Infantry, Union Army, to serve for three months during the Civil War. Stationed for a while at Camp Butler, he was honorably discharged as a corporal October 23, 1862, at Alton. A resident of Montgomery County after the war, about 1875 he moved to Wayne County, MO, and then on to Attie, Oregon County. On August 14, 1890, he filed for a pension for his Civil War service, claiming he had contracted "Chronic Diarrhea, Lung disease, Kidney disease, Liver disease, and Rheumatism while in the service, resulting in General disability." He hired West Plains attorney D.D. Powles to present his case. His claim was accepted and he began receiving a pension of $8 per month. Known as a good moral citizen and a respectable and credible person, he was able to do little work because of his ailments and was confined to his home much of the time. In constant need of medical attention, he died at his Attie home March 18, 1892.
He was married January 29, 1863, at Hillsboro, IL, by C.C. Aydelott, minister of the Gospel, to Elizabeth Virginia Honeycut, born 1834 in North Carolina, died in 1898, probably in Howell County, MO. On March 24, 1892, she filed for a widow's pension for her husband's Civil War service, claiming that she had "no means of Support except her daily labor ... no real Estate or personal property or income from any source." The claim was allowed and she began receiving a pension of $10 a month. She lived at West Plains, Howell County, after her husband's death.
Note: JOHN6 COE (William5, John4, William3, Richard2, Richard1) was born in1836 in Nelson County, KY. Five feet, nine and one-half inches tall, with dark hair, dark complexion and gray eyes, he enlisted June 6, 1862, at Hillsboro, Montgomery County, IL
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