Lynch, Jane

Other Events:

• Census: 1870, Edwardsville Township, Madison County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1880, Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Census:
According to the 1870 U.S. enumeration, Jane Lynch, age 9, lived with E. A. Lynch, a 38 year old woman, Sallie A. Lynch, age 16, and M. Lynch, a 13 year old girl.

Census:
According to the 1880 U.S. enumeration, 19 year old Jane Lewis lived with her mother, Eudoxia Lewis (age 48), her step-father, Lewis Thomas (age 54), her sister, Mathilda Lewis (age 22) and Jesse Lynch (age 3), identified as her mother's grand-daughter (the child's mother was not named).

Other Events:

• Military Service: 1861–1864

Notes:

Military Service:
John Lynch served as a Private in Company A, 39th Regiment, Illinois Infantry (also known as "Yates Phalanx"). According to Illinois state muster rolls, he was a 44 years old farmer and a resident of St. Louis, Missouri when he joined the regiment on 31 October 1861. He was mustered out on 29 October 1864 when his three year enlistment expired. During that time, the 39th Regiment, served in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Buried:
John Lynch was buried in Locust Grove Cemetery at New Orleans. Apparently subsequent burials at this location often disturbed previous interments in a haphazard manner, and multiple burials in the same plot were not uncommon. The cemetery was closed in 1879, covered with two feet of earth and planted with grain and grass. In 1905, Thomy Lafon School was built on the land without the removal of any of the bodies. More than a century later, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recognized the likelihood that John's remains could be recovered and honored the family's request that a memorial marker be erected in Woodlawn Cemetery, at Edwardsville, Illinois, where members of John Lynch’s family have been buried.

Died:
Kelly Collins, a descendant of John's, reports that at the time of his discharge from the Army, John Lynch was in ill health and on the advice of the Company doctor he did not immediately return home to Edwardsville, Illinois. He passed away on 28 March 1866 at New Orleans, Louisiana. The cause of death may have been smallpox.

John married Scott, Eudoxia Ann 26 May 1853, Madison County, Illinois, USA. Eudoxia was born Feb 1832, Tennessee, USA; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1870, Edwardsville Township, Madison County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Birth:

     Eudoxia Ann Scott was one of at least six children born to James and Catherine Scott in Tennessee, where the family resided until at least about 1840. At the time of the 1850 federal census, the family was living in Moro Township, Madison County, Illinois.
     On 12 January 1851, shortly before her 21st birthday, Endoxy [sic] A. Scott married Henry Cork.
     Madison County marriage records show that Eudoxia had three more husbands. On 26 May 1853, John Lynch and Endoria [sic] Ann Cork were married; this was a second marriage for both of them. B. Peterson and Eudoxa M. [sic] Lynch were married on 12 May 1871. Thomas J. Lewis and Eudoxa [sic] A. Peterson were married on 15 May 1873. In 1900, Thomas, age 75, and Eudoxia, age 68, were living in Edwardsville Township at the time of the 1900 U.S. census. I have not yet been able to find any reference either of them after this date.


Census:
According to the 1870 U.S. enumeration, the household was headed by E. A. Lynch (age 38) and included Sallie A. Lynch, age 16, M. Lynch, a 13 year old girl, and Jane Lynch, age 9.

Notes:

Census (family):
According to the 1860 U.S. enumeration, the household consisted of John Lynch, a 45 year old farmer, born in Ireland, his 28 year old wife, Udoxy [sic] A., born in Tennessee, and eight children: Daniel A. Lynch (age 17); Olla Lynch (age 15); Clay H. Lynch (age 13); Clinton Lynch (age 11); Mary (age 8); Sally A. Lynch (age 6); Mathilda (age 3) and Eliza (age 11 months).