Loel C. Hakes
Loel C Hakes was born around 1841 in New York to Billings and Lucy Hakes. His father was a farm laborer who owned $500 of real estate and $150 of personal property by 1860. Hakes grew up and attended school in Taylor, New York, and by 1860, he was working as a farm laborer. He may have moved to Wellsville, New York, in the early 1860s, and he married a woman named Elizabeth around 1861. They had at least five children: Nellie, born around 1862; Minnie, born around 1868; Emma, born around 1869; Wheeler, born around 1877; and Winnie, born around 1879.
 
Hakes enlisted in the Union army on September 5, 1862, and he mustered in as a sergeant in Company H of the 160th New York Infantry on November 21. According to his service records, he was 5 feet, 11 inches tall, with black hair and blue eyes. He was wounded in the foot during the siege of Port Hudson, and he was discharged for disability on May 13, 1864.
 
They moved to Winslow, Illinois, after the war, and Hakes worked as a farm laborer there. He applied for a federal pension in July 1864 and eventually secured one. By 1870, he owned $250 of personal property. They returned to Wellsville in the 1870s, and Hakes died there on February 13, 1899.
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DATABASE CONTENT
(3022)Hakes, Loel C.1841-05-111899-02-13
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Sergeant
  • Rank out: Sergeant
  • Rank highest: Sergeant
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 33

  • (8196) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 29 January 1863
  • (8197) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 4 February 1863
  • (8198) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 11 February 1863
  • (8199) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 15 February 1863
  • (8200) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, undated
  • (8201) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 10 March 1863
  • (8202) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 25 March 1863
  • (8203) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 27 March 1863
  • (8204) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 25 April 1863
  • (8205) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 4 August 1863
  • (8206) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 8 May 1863
  • (8207) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 16 May 1863
  • (8208) [recipient, writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 21 June 1863
  • (8209) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 4 July 1863
  • (8210) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 12 July 1863
  • (8211) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 14 August 1863
  • (8213) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 18 April 1864
  • (8214) [recipient] ~ Julia A. Hakes to Loel C. Hakes, 10 April 1864
  • (8215) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 6 January 186X
  • (8216) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 24 January 186X
  • (8217) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 20 February 186X
  • (8218) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 4 March 186X
  • (8219) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 9 March 186X
  • (8220) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 13 March 186X
  • (8221) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 19 March 186X
  • (8222) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 13 May 186X
  • (8223) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 19 July 186X
  • (8224) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 9 August 186X
  • (8225) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 18 November 186X
  • (8226) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 16 December 186X
  • (8227) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 24 December 186X
  • (8228) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 1862
  • (8247) [writer] ~ Loel C. Hakes to Elizabeth Hakes, 23 August 1863

People - Records: 2

  • (3023) Hakes, Elizabeth is the [wife of] (3022) Hakes, Loel C.
  • (3024) Hakes, Julia A. is the [sibling of] (3022) Hakes, Loel C.

Places - Records: 2

  • (67) [birth] ~ New York
  • (857) [death] ~ Wellsville, Allegany County, New York

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (31) [officer] [H] ~ 160th New York Infantry
SOURCES

1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; New York Town Clerks’ Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War, ca. 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; New York Death Index, 1852-1956, available from Ancestry.com