Civil War roster sparks family ties at Queen Bee Restaurant
A framed enlistment roster for Company C 116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry sits in Gallipolis’s Queen Bee Restaurant. Dale C. Gilkey, owner, notes a great great great uncle Walter Raleigh Gilkey a surgeon on the roster died in Winchester on June 4 1863. The piece traces regiment muster dates and battles from Moorefield to Appomattox Court House, listing officers and casualties including Capt Arkenoe Pvt Preshaw and Lt Lupton.
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Gallipolis
Queen Bee
116Th
Ohio
Dale C. Gilkey
Gilkey
Dale
Walter Raleigh Gilkey
Winchester
Ira A. Dilkey
Second
West Virginia Cavalry
Marietta
Richmond
Moorefield
Appomattox Court House
Romney
Bunker Hill
Piedmont
Mt. Crawford
Lynchburg
Snicker’s Ferry
Halltown
Berryville
Opequan
Fisher’s Hall
Cedar Creek
Fort Gregg
Petersburg
High Bridge
Appomattox
C. H
Poland
Mahoning County
N. Y
Nathan Smith Gilkey
William Gilkey
Fred C. Arkenoe
James H. Preshaw
Andersonville
State Seeks Test Wells In Gallipolis
The Division of Water of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources seeks unused wells six inches or larger in Gallipolis or Gallia County to install automated water level recorders. Preference is for drilled wells in sandy or gravelly basins. Owners or knowers of such wells should contact the Gallia County Agricultural Extension Office or call 446-0502.
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Gallipolis
Division of Water
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Gallia County
Bill Smith
Smith
Lloyd C. Flowers
Gallia
Mrs. Virgie Hill Dies. Rites Monday at Miller Funeral Home
Virgie Hill 49 of 827 Fourth Ave died Friday at home. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Monday at Miller Funeral Home with the Rev. Vernon Shafer. Burial in Pine Street Cemetery. Survived by husband Charles Hill and five children Frances Clyde Roger Kelly Hill. Lloyd Hill of Richmond Va. siblings Charles and Basil Casey and Rena Ward. several half-siblings.
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Gallipolis
Virgie Hill
Fourth Ave
Miller Funeral Home
Vernon Shafer
Pine Street
Hill
Edward
Rosa May Merritt Casey
Charles Hill
Frances
Clyde
Roger
Kelly Hill
Lloyd Hill
Richmond
Charles Casey
Basil Casey
Gallipolis Ferry
Leonard
Rena) Ward
Lowell
Arthur Merritt
Bristol
R. I
Curtis Merritt
Russell
Harry
Maxine) Hogan
Columbus
Thomas
Rosa) Frost
Pittsburgh
Vernon
Barbara) Taylor Ewington
Union forces link up after Staunton pursuit clash
In May to June 1862 Union troops under Generals Hunter Crook and Averell advanced toward Staunton while Confederate forces led by Grumble Jones tried to delay. A June 5-6 battle near Piedmont ended with Jones killed and Union victory. Confederate losses reached about 1600, with 1000 captured. Hunter’s force suffered 780 casualties as Staunton fell unopposed.
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Hunter
Staunton
Crook
Covington
Warm Springs
Harrisonburg
Jones
Shenandoah
Port Re
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S. C
William Hall
George Matchett
Cpl
Adam Rodecker
George W. Gannon
John Latchaw
Frederick F. Neptune
Henry Pfiefer
Shenandoah Valley
New Market
David Hunter
Franz Sigel
Dept. of
Western Virginia
Strausburg
J. C. Sul
Homer Abele
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Congress
Rer
Tyrex Inc
Allstate
Sears
rManent Rd
Logan, Ohio
Port Republic
Augustus Moor
Joseph Thoburn
Artil
Athens
Levy
Moor
Thoburn
John E. Wynkoop
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