SGT Chauncey L. Chase
1840 - 1862
Co. F, 15th Illinois Infantry
CW
Chauncey L. Chase was born about 1840 in New York to Benjamin and Lorinda (Mix) Chase.
The family migrated from New York via Ohio, where they lived in 1850.
By June of 1860, the family was located in Jefferson Township at Cook County Farm, where Benjamin Chase was Warden of this almshouse, and his 20-year-old son Chauncy was listed as Keeper of the Insane. The Cook County Farm opened in 1854 to provide a humane way for care of poor in a rural setting.
Less than a year later, Chauncy Chase enlisted in Company F, 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment which participated in the Battles of Shiloh, Tennessee and Corinth, Mississippi. He received a disability discharge on August 15, 1862, and died the following month in Cook County on September 20, 1862.
Sergeant Chauncey Chase is buried with his parents in Evergreen Cemetery in Barrington.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
