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Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] William H. Bestor
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:42:04 -0500
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Thanks for this. I don't understand the formation of the CW companies. He
enlisted in Cleveland, or so it says, but I know the companies didn't form
in the same places where they enlisted men. So much history to learn before
research becomes clear... Lila

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michele" <>
To: <>
Sent: 10 July, 2008 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] William H. Bestor


>I believe his military company was formed in Henry Co., Ohio, so that
> may give you a place to look for the earlier censuses.
>
> wrote:
>> I have searched Bay for William (no surname) and Anna (no surname) his
>> second wife whom he married in 1879. Also for Bestor and variations, of
>> course. Just no luck. I guess my next option is to go through the census
>> page by page, but it's going to be a long process. Ward three alone is 76
>> pages if I recall correctly, and I'm sure there are more wards in Bay
>> City.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michele" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: 09 July, 2008 1:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] William H. Bestor
>>
>>
>>
>>> Have you been able to search the Bay City 1880 census for that address?
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can anyone think of how my William H. Bestor could be misindexed, so
>>>> that
>>>> he cannot be located as a child in his parents' family in 1850 or 1860,
>>>> or in the 1880 census?
>>>>
>>>> Here is what I know about him:
>>>>
>>>> Stated as father of Barbara Mae Bestor on her 1890 marriage to Murdock
>>>> McKenzie in Colfax County, Nebraska.
>>>> England stated as father's birthplace by Mae McKenzie, 1900 census,
>>>> Colfax County, Nebraska.
>>>>
>>>> Have not found in 1850 or 1860 censuses, not for lack of trying.
>>>>
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>
>>>> CIVIL WAR:
>>>>
>>>> DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL REGISTER OF ENLISTED SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY.
>>>> Ancestry.com; time frame 1798-1914.
>>>>
>>>> William H. Bestor, born Bainbridge, Ohio; age 20; Blacksmith; enlisted
>>>> 1
>>>> August 1861 at Cleveland for 5 years; Eyes gray, hair light, complexion
>>>> ruddy, height 5 feet [illegible] inches; 6th Regiment, Company B;
>>>> FUTURE
>>>> HISTORY Discharge 1 August 64 [math doesn't work] at expiration of
>>>> service. Remarks: "At in this field A Private" [?]
>>>>
>>>> William H. Bester 38 Ohio Infantry Union Company B Soldier's Rank_In
>>>> Pvt.
>>>> Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt. Alternate Name William H./Bestor Notes Film
>>>> Number M552 roll 8.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.footnote.com/searchdocuments.php?query=bestor&collection=27436&submit=Search#27900741:
>>>>
>>>> Publication Number: T289Publication
>>>>
>>>> Title: Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served
>>>> Between
>>>> 1861 and 1900.
>>>>
>>>> Publisher: NARA
>>>>
>>>> State: [Blank]
>>>>
>>>> Arm Of Service: Cavalry
>>>>
>>>> Regiment: 6 Company: B
>>>>
>>>> Name: Bestor, William H.
>>>>
>>>> Date: 15-NOV-1892
>>>>
>>>> State/arm Of Service: [Null]
>>>>
>>>> Company/regiment: [Null]
>>>>
>>>> Roll Number: 700
>>>>
>>>> Collection Title: Civil War Pensions
>>>>
>>>> 1890 Veteran's Census of Michigan, Bay City, Bay County, Supervisor's
>>>> District 5, Enumeration District 244; William H. Bestor, Private
>>>> Company
>>>> B, 6 U.S. Cavalry, Enlisted 1861, discharged 1865, served 5 years. Post
>>>> office address Bay City; no disability listed; served 5 years regular
>>>> Army (this last in remarks).
>>>>
>>>> Sons of Union Veterans Website, www.suvcwdb.org, William H. Bester,
>>>> birth
>>>> 28 Sep 1841, death 12 Mar 1899 age 58, Private Co. B, 6th U.S. Cavalry,
>>>> enlisted 1 August 1861 discharged 12 July 1865. Buried Ohio Soldier's &
>>>> Sailors' Home Cemetery, Columbus Avenue, Sandusky, Perkins Twp., Erie
>>>> County, Ohio, Lot 5, Section G, Grave 13, with military headstone.
>>>>
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>
>>>> On the LDS International Genealogical Index: Marriage, William H.
>>>> Bestor
>>>> and Barbara "Nichols" (Niggli), 29 July 1865, Lake County, Ohio. He had
>>>> been discharged from the U.S. Army 12 July 1865. Lake County marriage
>>>> film does not give further information except that they were married by
>>>> S. B. Webster, GM. (?) A Silas B. Webster was a Baptist minister on the
>>>> 1850 and 1860 Lake County censuses. He was in Plainsville in 1860.
>>>>
>>>> Family found in Cuyahoga County Ohio in 1870 before Barbara's birth:
>>>> William Bester 24 born Ohio, *boilermaker*, literate, parents of
>>>> foreign
>>>> birth.
>>>>
>>>> Barbara 22 born Prussia, literate [really born Switzerland]
>>>>
>>>> Erwin 3 born Ohio
>>>>
>>>> Erwin must be the "Corvin Bester" age 12 and a servant in the Jacob
>>>> Custer family in Colfax County, Nebraska, 1880."Corbin" was still in
>>>> Colfax County living in the John Riley family on the 1885 Nebraska
>>>> State
>>>> Census.
>>>>
>>>> Cannot find any of this family except Erwin/Corvin/Corbin etc. in
>>>> 1880--Corvin in Colfax County, Nebraska.
>>>>
>>>> On the LDS International Genealogical Index: Marriage, William H.
>>>> Bestor,
>>>> age 34 [1846 birth], born Ohio, and Anna M. Fitz Henry, 18 June 1880,
>>>> Bay
>>>> County, Michigan. Actual marriage record gives marriage date of 18 June
>>>> 1879.
>>>>
>>>> This marriage seems to indicate that Barbara (Niggli) Bestor had died
>>>> before 1879. The children must have been sent to relatives. Were Mrs.
>>>> Jacob Custer and Mrs. John Riley some relation to either the Bestor or
>>>> Niggli families? Daughter "May" (Mae) was with Barbara's sister
>>>> Caroline
>>>> Niggli Patterson in Iowa county, Iowa in 1880 and 1885.
>>>>
>>>> 1890-1891 Bay County, Michigan Directory, Bay City: Bestor, Wm. H.
>>>> *boilermaker*, res 113 Fraser, Bay City.
>>>>
>>>> Application for pension on 15 Nov 1892 seems to indicate that his
>>>> health
>>>> had failed by then. See Civil War data, above.
>>>>
>>>> See Civil War data above for death and burial information.
>>>>
>>>> Conclusion: Occupation Boilermaker seems to make the tie that Barbara's
>>>> husband was the man who was later in Bay City, Michigan. The Bay City
>>>> 1890 veteran's census ties this William to the soldier serving from and
>>>> dying in Ohio, because the company, regiment etc. are a match.
>>>>
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