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Subject: [MI-CIVILWAR] CIVIL WAR MYSTERY (DEATH! DOUBLE MARRIAGE! SCANDAL!HELP!)
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:40:40 -0000

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Author: MikeShea1965
Surnames: Wright, Dillon, Spalding
Classification: queries

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Okay- here's one for all of you- tell me what you think>

Cast of characters:

Minerva Spalding (1832-1920)
John Dillon (1823, b: Ireland- 1878?? Michigan)
Rezin Wright (1843, b: Michigan- 1873 Chicago)

Minerva Spalding married Irishman John Dillon in Michigan (can't find marriage record yet) in the early 1850's. Dillon enlisted in the Michigan 14th Infantry, Company G in Port Huron, MI on Dec 21, 1861.

BUT- According to the HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY book: "Mrs. Dillon (Spalding), who was born in Lockport, New York, now resides in Port Huron, from which city her first husband (John Dillon) enlisted for service in the Civil war, during which struggle he received injuries which caused blindness and later death. Her second husband was also a Civil war solider."

According to the Dibean Marriage Record List:
3 July 1862, Port Huron
Rinson (Rezin) Wright, 21, Columbus (MI)
Mary Dillow (Dillon), 30, Port Huron

Rezin Wright enlisted in the Michigan Fourth Calvary, Company A on July 22, 1862.

After the war, he went to Chicago after the Great Fire, contracted small pox and died in 1873 and is buried in Graceland Cemetery.

John Dillon, I have no idea what actually happened to.

Doing searches, I found a John Dillon, born 1825, who was wounded at Stone River, TN and who ends up in Detroit after the war and dies March 2 1876 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery.

The Battle of Stone River was December 31 1862 to January 2 1863.

So if this is the same guy, he was injured after she got married to Rezin Wright, the other soldier... !!!

I'm so lost...lol

Do any of you have any thoughts? Or suggestions?

This is the fun part of family history no doubt...Hoping some Civil War historians here may have some ideas or places to look...

Thank you!!- Mike in Cleveland

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