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From: "D. Kohler" <>
Subject: Re: [PA] HAMILTONS of Beaver Co., was Rails Cross Road,PA -- where is it?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 23:05:08 -0400
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Hi, Nancy:

Year: 1850; Census Place: South Beaver, Beaver, Pennsylvania; Roll:
M432_750; Page: 135; Image: 267. 9/9/1850.
Hamilton, Milton J. - 27 - m - shoemaker - $225
--- Sophia - 27 - f
--- Octavius A. - 2 - m
PA for all.

Debra


On May 22, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Nancy & Ted wrote:

> I would love any information or suggestions on finding out more
> about this
> family, especially Robert.
> The furthest back I can go in this family comes from letters
> exchanged in
> the 1950s with descendants of Robert Hamilton b. Scotland c. 1798,
> m. Lilia
> Maria Polk in c. 1823. Robert was in the US by 1813 (family lore).
>
> Robert's son Milton was born in Georgetown, Beaver Co. PA in 1823
> (Milton
> Josiah Hamilton m. Sophia Lyons). Milton was in Meigs Co. OH by
> at least
> 1860 (which is the first census that I find him in; could be
> earlier, I just
> don't know or have access to earlier info. The 1870 census would
> indicate
> that one daughter at least was born in OH in about 1853. Milton
> was in the
> 13th Ohio Valley Cavalry. Milton was supposedly the youngest of NINE
> children, and I can't find any of them!
>
> His son Octavius Augustus Hamilton (Tave, Tavey, O.A.) b. 1845 (or
> 1847?) is
> the one who says on his Civil War paperwork that he was born in
> Rails Cross
> Roads, Beaver Co. PA. I asked at the Beaver Co. list but no one so
> far has
> known of it. That is the first I have seen that location connected
> to this
> family. Octavius went to war as a 14 year old, according to family
> lore and
> a biography in WY (which would jive with the 1847 birthdate), but
> on the CW
> papers it says 1845; and the family story is that he never came
> home again.
> Everything you think about in relation to the West, he was the
> embodiment of
> that--lived in WY, UT, OR, ended up in Washington. Raised cattle,
> sheep,
> burned out by the Indians, etc etc etc.
>
> Octavius was in the Ohio Vol. Cavalry, enlisted 1863 at
> Harrisonville (or
> Dennison, Pomeroy, or Athens, he gives all those) Ohio,
> with Todd's Scouts. I am not very savvy about military matters--he
> apparently reenlisted several times. He also served in Co. E, 4th
> Independent battalion,OVC, mustered out in Charlotte NC; also the
> 5th Reg.
>
> Any advice on where to turn to figure out Milton's siblings, or more
> information on his father Robert, much appreciated. I did call the
> Carnegie
> library research room in Beaver County today, and they had never
> heard of
> Rails Cross Road; and also the state archives of PA did not have
> info on it.
> I guess it was just a local landmark.
>
> Nancy
>
>
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