Jonas Fuller
Jonas Fuller was born around 1843 in Pennsylvania to Ransom and Abigail Fuller. His father was a farmer who owned $1,300 of real estate and $627 of personal property by 1860. The family lived in Springhill, Pennsylvania, until the 1850s, when they moved to Wyalusing, Pennsylvania.
Fuller enlisted in the Union army on August 7, 1862, and he mustered in as a private in Company A of the 141st Pennsylvania Infantry on August 18. He died of “Congestive Fever” in Leesburg, Virginia, on November 2, 1862. A comrade assured his parents that Fuller did not die alone: “He died in my arms and as I closed his eyes, I felt that I had lost a friend and brother.” After Fuller’s death, his friend noted, a “lady from a house opposite plucked some nice flowers roses & formed them into a bouquet and brought them over to lay on the breast of the dead Soldier.”
DATABASE CONTENT
| (3278) | Fuller, Jonas | 1843 | 1862-11-02 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Private
- Rank highest: Private
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 6
- (3806) [writer] ~ Jonas Fuller to Ransom Fuller and Abigail Fuller, 22 October 1862
- (3807) [writer] ~ Jonas Fuller to Ransom Fuller and Abigail Fuller, 16 October 1862
- (3808) [writer] ~ Jonas Fuller to Abigail Fuller, 2 September 1862
- (3809) [writer] ~ Jonas Fuller to Ransom Fuller and Abigail Fuller, 14 September 1862
- (3811) [writer] ~ Jonas Fuller to Ransom Fuller, 1 September 1862
- (3812) [writer] ~ Jonas Fuller to Ransom Fuller and Abigail Fuller, 19 August 1862
People - Records: 2
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (158) [enlisted] [A] ~ 141st Pennsylvania Infantry
SOURCES
Pennsylvania Civil War Muster Rolls, 1860-1869, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Joseph Hurst to Ransom Fuller, 2 November 1862, Leesburg Civil War Collection, 1861-1865, Thomas Balch Library.
