DAVID LINN

When David Linn was born on 29 March 1822, his father, ALEXANDER, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 27. He married Lucinda May Jester on 16 December 1840. They had 11 children in 26 years. He died on 16 January 1886 in Cromwell, Indiana, USA, at the age of 63.

(Lifestory, ancestry.com)

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1830 United States Federal Census about Alexander Linn

Name: Alexander Linn

Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Orange, Shelby, Ohio

Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 [David Linn]

Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 [Aaron Hankinson Linn]

Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 [Alexander Robert Linn]

Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 [Martha Linn]

Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 2 [Sarah Linn, Nancy Linn]

Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 [Elizabeth Blue]

White Persons - Deaf and Dumb - 25 and over: 1 [Alexander Robert Linn]

Free White Persons - Under 20: 5

Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2

Total Free White Persons: 7

Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 7

1850 US CENSUS for Wayne Twp, Montgomery County, Ohio

David LINN (transcribed as Daniel LYNN), 27, laborer, born Ohio

Lucinda, 29, born Tennessee,

Mary J, 7, b Ohio

John, 5, b Ohio

Charles, 4, b Ohio

Sarah, 2, b Ohio

moved from Ohio to Indiana about 1855.

1860 US CENSUS for Etna Twp, Kosciusko County, Indiana

David LIANE/LIAM, 37, farmer, personal estate $150, b Ohio

Lucinda, 38, b Ohio

Mary, 18, b Ohio

John, 17, farmer, b Ohio

Charles, 14, b Ohio

Sarah 12, b Ohio

Nancy, 10, b Ohio

Jemima, 5, b Ohio

Stephen, 2, b Indiana.

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Civil War Service, Company F, 74th Indiana Regiment, together with son John C Linn.

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Name: David Linn , Residence: Etna Green, Indiana Enlistment Date: 23 March 1864 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Union State Served: Indiana Unit Numbers: 628 628 572 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 23 March 1864Enlisted in Company F, 74th Infantry Regiment Indiana

Union> on 23 March 1864.Transferred Company F, 74th Infantry Regiment Indiana

Union> on 09 June 1865 in Washington, DCTransfered in 22nd Infantry Regiment Indiana

Union> on 09 June 1865.

(source: ancestry.com, American Civil War Soldiers)

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LINN, Charles Private

Unit: 44th Co.: B Enlist 5 April 1865

LINN, David Private

Unit: 22nd Co.: F Enlist 23 March 1864

LINN, David Private

Unit: 74th Co.: F Enlist 23 March 1864

LINN, John C Private

Unit: 74th Co.: F Enlist 8 August 1862

(Kosciusko County Men in the Civil War)

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Report of the adjutant general of the state of Indiana

Published 1865 by A. H. Conner [etc] State printer in Indianapolis .

John C Linn

David Linn

http://archive.org/stream/reportindiana06dougrich#page/208/mode/2up

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David Linn, "United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917"

Name: David Linn

Military Rank: P.

Military Company: F

Military Regiment: 74

State: Indiana

Military Unit: Infantry

Event Date: 16 Nov 1867

Military Company/Regiment:

Affiliate Name: National Archives and Records Administration

Affiliate Publication Number: T289

Affiliate Publication Title: Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900

Affiliate Record Type: Civil War Pensions

(familysearch.org)

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1870 US CENSUS for Tippecanoe Twp, Kosciusko County, Indiana

David LENN, 48, farm laborer, personal estate $100, born Ohio,

Lucinda, 49, keeping house, born Ohio

Nancy E, 18, born Ohio, at home,

Ellen, 16, born Ohio,

Stephen, 12, born Indiana,

Aaron, 9, born Indiana,

Moses, 9, born Indiana,

Lucinda, 6, born Indiana,

David, 2, born Indiana.

1880 US CENSUS for Elkhart Twp, Noble County, Indiana

David LYNN, 58, farmer, born in Ohio, both parents born N.J.,

Lucinda,59, housekeeping, born Ohio, both parents born Tennessee,

Moses, 19, farm labourer, b Indiana

Lucinda, 16, Domestic, b Indiana

David, 12, farm laborer, b Indiana

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U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 about David Linn

Name: David Linn

State Filed: Indiana

Widow: Lucinda Linn

Roll Number: T288_284

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Headstone supplied by Sheldon & Sons, West Rutland, Vermont

contract dated 21 Aug 1886

Linn David, Prvt, Co. F, 74th Regt, Ind. Inf.

Ligonier cemetery, Ligonier, Indiana

date of death: Mch 15th 1886

(source: Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans 1879-1903, ancestry.com)

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David and Lucinda (Jester) Linn

David Linn was born on March 29, 1822 in Ohio. It is presently

believed he was the son of Robert Linn and Elizabeth Blue,

Robert being born in New Jersey and Elizabeth a native of

Indiana.

On December 16, 1840 David Linn was married to Lucinda May

Jester (Clark) in Addison, Champaign County, Ohio.

Lucinda was born on July 23, 1821 in Tennessee to Samuel

and Jemima Jester. Samuel died shortly after Lucinda's birth

and her mother then married David Clark. Although Lucinda

was a Jester by birth, she was married under the name of

Clark which later caused her some difficulty when she tried to

make a claim for a widow's pension after David died. She was

forced to explain the discrepancy through an affidavit which

read as follows:

"The reason of difference of middle letter in my name is this:

My Father's name was Jester. He died when I was a child.

My Step-Father's name was Clark and upon my marriage to

David Linn he had it put upon record as Clark. And I do

solemnly swear that neither myself or my late husband had

ever been married prior to our marriage as is upon record and

a copy of which I sent you."

On March 8, 1864 in Etna Green, Indiana, David Linn enlisted

as a private in Captain North's Company F of the 74th Regiment

of Indiana Volunteers. He was described as follows:

"... 42 years, 5 feet 10 1/2 inches high, sandy complexion, grey

eyes, dark hair, and by profession a farmer; born in the State of

Ohio.... (January 18, 1865)"

He was honorably discharged from his service on June 7, 1865

at Madison, Indiana. During his term in service, however, he

suffered a hernia and described his injury when applying for

disability pension:

"Rupture in the pit of the stomach by falling with a log in

building breast works, near Peachtree, Georgia, on or about the

15th day of July 1864 and has not been able to perform manual

labor since that time to any amount. (November 11, 1867)"

This family did quite a bit of moving around in search of good

farm land and other labor in the lumber business. After their

marriage in Addison, Ohio, David and Lucinda are next found to

be living in Wayne Township, Montgomery County, Ohio on

September 10, 1850. Then between 1855 and 1858 they

moved to Etna Green, Indiana where they were found living on

September 10, 1860. They then moved to the Cromwell

vicinity in the late 1860's. In 1868 they were near Loon Lake,

Whitley County, Indiana and on August 27, 1870 were living at

Boydston's Mills in Tippecanoe Township. Their remaining years

were spent at their home near Cromwell in Noble County where

David Linn died on January 16, 1886 of paralysis. Lucinda died at

the home of her son, John C. Linn, in Cromwell on May 24, 1892

of dropsy and was buried beside her husband in Byer Cemetery,

just two miles east of Syracuse, Indiana.

David and Lucinda were parents of eleven known children:

Mary J. Linn was born about 1842.

John C. Linn, first married to Anna Hannah and second to Mary

Matilda Click, was born on October 7, 1843 and died on November

4, 1878.

Charles Linn, married to Anna Elizabeth Henderson, was born on

July 11, 1846 and died on July 13, 1938.

Sarah Ann Linn, married to James P. Inks, was born on October

27, 1848 and died on November 30, 1926.

Nancy Elizabeth Linn, married to John William Henderson, was born

on February 14, 1852 and died on July 13, 1909.

Jemima Ellen Linn, married to James L. Cook, was born in 1865.

Stephen Linn, married to Sarah Adeliah Click, was born on January

of 1858.

Moses Linn, first married to Martha Cook and second to Hattie

Brown, was born on December 30, 1860 and died in 1924.

Aaron Hankson Linn, twin brother of Moses, was married to

Amanda Caroline Click and died on July 16, 1942.

Lucinda Linn, married to William Reed, was born in April of 1864

and lived in Newago County, Michigan in 1900 and

David Linn, married to Florence Estella Marine, was born on April 4,

1868 and died on September 28, 1939.

Douglas L Mayer, Warsaw, Indiana.

(courtesy of Marie Williams, found at SJCL in a post-1984 book

about history of Kosciusko County)

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Note : David Linn was born in Virginia, according to son John C Linn's census details.

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