PVT Horace H. Church
1825 – 1886
Co. E, 113th Illinois Infantry
CW

 
Horace Hamilton Church was born September 5, 1825, in Columbia County, New York, to Charles and Eliza (Kellogg) Church.

At age 37, Church enlisted as a Private, and served in Company E, 113th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. He received a disability discharge on September 30, 1863 at Mound City, Illinois.

He married Jane M. Humiston in Kendall County on October 15, 1864; they had two children.

Professionally, Church worked in farming, then as a railroad depot agent, and later, as a lumber and grain dealer.

Private Horace Church died June 8, 1886 in Chicago, and is buried with his wife at Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.





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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution