Samuel Barnard
Samuel Barnard was born on July 30, 1839, in Montgomery County, Ohio. His family moved to McLean County, Illinois, around 1841, and he grew up and attended school near Bloomington, Illinois. He married a woman named Anna in the late 1850s, and they had at least two children: Clarence, born around 1859; and Clyde, born around 1862. By the early 1860s, he was working as a farmer in Dry Grove, Illinois, and he owned $200 of real estate and $500 of personal property.
 
He enlisted in the Union army on August 7, 1862, and he mustered in as a private in Company I of the 94th Illinois Infantry on August 20. According to his service records, he was 5 feet, 9 inches tall, with sandy hair and blue eyes. He eventually earned a promotion to corporal. The regiment took part in the siege of Vicksburg, and he was discharged for disability on June 1, 1864.
 
Barnard settled in Fairbury, Illinois, after leaving the army. By 1870, he owned $1,200 of real estate and $200 of personal property. They moved to Table Rock, Nebraska, in the 1870s, and he worked as a “nurseryman” there. According to one local writer, he was a “prominent member of the state board of agriculture” and “one of the oldest officers of the state horticultural society.” He was “stricken suddenly and fatally with heart disease” on board a train near Table Rock on January 16, 1890.
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(4854)Barnard, Samuel1839-07-301890-01-16
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Corporal
  • Rank highest: Corporal
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 3

  • (13632) [recipient] ~ Adelaide F. Barnard and Francis Barnard to Samuel Barnard and Osborn Barnard, 19 October 1862
  • (13641) [writer] ~ Osborn Barnard and Samuel Barnard to Sarah M. Barnard, 6 February 1863
  • (13664) [recipient] ~ Francis Barnard to Osborn Barnard and Samuel Barnard, 6 May 1863

People - Records: 7

  • (4854) Barnard, Samuel is the [sibling of] (4826) Barnard, Osborn
  • (4854) Barnard, Samuel is the [aunt/uncle of] (5515) Barnard, Adelaide F.
  • (4827) Barnard, Sarah M. is the [sibling-in-law of] (4854) Barnard, Samuel
  • (5513) Barnard, Amos is the [sibling of] (4854) Barnard, Samuel
  • (5514) Barnard, Francis is the [sibling of] (4854) Barnard, Samuel
  • (5517) Sutton, Benjamin S. is the [sibling-in-law of] (4854) Barnard, Samuel
  • (5518) Barnard, William C. is the [sibling of] (4854) Barnard, Samuel

Places - Records: 2

  • (2317) [birth] ~ Montgomery County, Ohio
  • (3004) [death] ~ Table Rock, Pawnee County, Nebraska

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (977) [officer] [I] ~ 94th Illinois Infantry

Groups - Records: 1

  • (6) [member/supporter] ~ Grand Army of the Republic
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; Databases of Illinois Veterans Index, 1775-1995, available from Ancestry.com; Nebraska Grand Army of the Republic Burial Records, 1861-1948, available from Ancestry.com; Lincoln (NE) Journal State, 16 January 1890.