Bio: Tilden, James Alfred & Mary E. Stafford
Contact: Stan

----Source: Kay Boylan , 1880 Federal Census--Holton, Marathon, Wisconsin

Surnames: Butler, Emrath, Civil War Petition record at the National Archives in Washington DC, McCarty Ross, Stafford, Tilden

 

James Alfred Tilden

 

Civil War Soldier's Record


Name: James A Tilden
Residence: Milford, Wisconsin
Enlistment Date: 20 September 1864
Distinguished Service:
۞Distinguished Service
Side Served: Union Army
State Served: Wisconsin
Unit Numbers: 3110 3110
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 20 September 1864
Drafted in Company A, 6th Infantry Regiment Wisconsin on 20 September 1864.
Mustered out Company A, 6th Infantry Regiment Wisconsin on 13 May 1865

Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Record
Name: James A. Tilden
State Filed: Wisconsin
Widow: Kate B. Tilden
Date of ?? 1908 Aug. 7
 

 

1880 Federal Census--Holton, Marathon, Wisconsin
Name Relation Marital

Sex

Color

Birth Year

Birthplace

Occupation

Father Born Mother Born
Head Married Male White          
Wife Married Female White          
  Single   White          
  Single   White          

Family Notes contributed by Kay Boylan

Your James A. Tilden is James Alfred Tilden born 7 March 1840 in Ohio. He died 27 May 1908 in Ft. Atkinson, Jefferson, WI at Dr. Brewer's Hospital and was buried 29 May 1908 in Sumner, Jefferson, WI.

James first married Mary E. Stafford who was born in Ohio on 27 October 1863 in Jefferson Co., WI. Mary died 29 December 1875 in Calamus, Dodge, WI. They had three children: Anna Bell, William and Edith V.

James second married Julia McCarty Ross, widow of Edwin Ross on 6 September 1876 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Kingston, Green Lake, WI. They had two children, Irving R. and Augustine Carlyle. Julia and James were divorced on 2 Jan 1883 in Montello, Marquette, WI.

James third married Katherine (Kate) Butler Emrath, widow of Peter Emrath Jr. on 21 November 1887 in Burnett, Dodge, WI.

Most of this information came from James's Civil War Petition record at the National Archives in Washington DC.
 

 

 


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