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Marteena, Geo. W. no dates Co.E 70 IL Inf. This may be George W Marteeny as per the following at: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSW8-82Z Name: George Marteeny Also Known As Name: George W. Marteena Event Type: Military Service Military Beginning Rank: Private Military Final Rank: Private Military Side: Union State or Military Term: Illinois Military Unit: 70th Regiment, Illinois Infantry Military Company: E Note: Original filed under George W. Marteena And he also may be listed as George Martina http://www.ilsos.gov/isaveterans/civilMusterSearch.do?key=16064 He is listed there as enlisting 7/18/1862 at Mt Vernon, IL . George is not listed as a Jefferson County War of 1861 enlistee under any of these names. But the "George Merteena" family may have recently returned to Illinois from Henry Twp, Vernon Co, Missouri, where they were enumerated in the 1860 federal census, due to the drought of 1859-1860: "The 1859-1860 drought shut down water powered mills all over Southwest Missouri." Past and Present of Greene County Missouri, 1915 by Jonathan Fairbanks and Clyde Edwin Tuck. p151-152 It was the summer of 1860, however, which gave Kansas its reputation for droughts. During the fall and winter of 1859-60 but little rain fell. The spring of 1860 continued dry though there were a few showers that put the ground in condition for cultivation. The account of Hartman Lichtenhan, one of the early settlers, as given in the Kansas Historical Collections, says: "During the year 1860 not a drop of rain fell from the 15th of May until the following January. Nothing was raised, and in consequence provisions were very high. I freighted all summer from Leavenworth and Kansas City to the towns in the western part of the territory." Horace Greeley, in the New York Independent of Feb. 7, 1861, said: "Drought is not unknown to us; but a drought so persistent and so severe as that which devastated Kansas in 1860 is a stranger to the states this side of the Mississippi. No rain, or none of any consequence, over an area of 40,000 square miles from seed time to harvest. Such has been the woeful experience of seven-eighths of Kansas during 1860." The settlers were poor, without money to buy provisions at the prevailing prices, consequently they grew disheartened and nearly one-fourth of the population left the territory for new lands or returned to their old homes in the east. On Oct. 29, 1860, Thaddeus Hyatt wrote to the war and interior departments: "Thousands, of once thrifty and prosperous American citizens are now perishing for want. Winter is upon them; of clothing they are nearly bereft; food they have not to last them through the cold season that is approaching. Some have already died; others are daily dying." Pages 547-549 from volume I of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc.... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Farthing, Lula B. Mar.07,1894 June 08,1977 Lula B. Bond was buried at West Salem Cemetery by her first husband, Walter Raleigh Farthing. Just before she passed away made this choice to be buried as Lula Farthing |
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