Bond County IL Archives Obituaries.....Valentine, E. S. August 10, 195 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Thomilson eunicepeabody1@aol.com December 21, 2011, 12:51 pm Greenville Advocate E. S. Valentine, aged 83 years of Pocahontas, passed away at his home in that place, August 10, 1925. Edmund Smith Valentine was born on a farm in Long Island, where greater New York stands, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Valentine. He was the fith of a family of nine children, six sons and three daughters and whe was born January 25, 1842. One brother Coles B. Valentine of New York is the only survivor of the family. When 18 years of age, he with some relatives came west to Illinois in the spring of 1860. He remained until the fallof the same year, when he with his brother George jouneyed to Missouri where they both secured employment on a farm. When the Civil War broke out he was conscripted into the Confederate Army and taken south into the state of Mississippi where he with a comrad deserted the Confederate Army and after many hardships, traveling at night and sleeping in the daytime, returned to Bloomfield, Missouri, Where he enlisted in the Federal Army andserved until the end of the war. He was captured during a skirmish Winchester, Tennessee by a squad of rebel Calvery men clad in the blue uniforms of the Union soldiers and was placed in the Belle Isle prison, there he suffered exposure to the cold, having to sleep on wet, cold ground with scacely any clothing, as he had been deprived of all outer garments and personal property. After five weeks of such torture he was transferred to the widely know prist Andersonville, Georgia where he finished nearly a year of the terrible horrors and privations of that prison life, after which he was exchanged. it was necessary for him to be carried out on a stretcher at the time of the exchange. It took many months to recouperate his health and strength of wich the starvation and terrible exposrue had robbed him during the months of imprisonment. He served in Co. K. 1st Wis. Calvery. On Dececmbert 6, 1866, he was married to Miss Virginia Ellen Wright, near Wisetown. To this union were born one daughter and five sons, the daughter of two sons dying at an early age. One son, Goerge died in Sioux City , Iowa at the age of 40 years. His wife and two sons, Simon of Mapleton, Iowa and Lorenzo of Sioux City survives him. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/bond/obits/v/valentin465gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb