Name: Chatterson, Caleb
Burial Date: 1863, 04/25
Age at Death: 38
Plot Location: 014 E Marker Only
Notes: husband of Sarah Ann (Bielby) Murphy
War: Civil War Died Millikens Bend, LA
LLINOIS 127TH INFANTRY
Caleb Chatterson enlisted at Lyons, Cook County, Illinois 11 August 1862 as private – enlisted 6 September 1862 in Company H, 127th Infantry Regiment Illinois. Caleb was absent on Muster Roll 10 April 1863, reason, sent to Hospital Boat 16 March 1863. Caleb Chatterson died 25 April 1863 in Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana.
The Adjutant General reports that Caleb Chatterson was enrolled August 7, 1862 died at Milliken’s Bend April 25, 1863. The Surgeon General reports that he died of Remittent Fever
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Buried in Vicksburg Military Cemetery, Marker only Sterling, KS
Obituary reads…Mrs. Richard Murphy, Sarah Ann Bielby was born at Oriskany, Oneida County, New York, June 9, 1832, died December 5, 1907, aged 75 years 5 months and 26 days. She was married in 1850 to Caleb Chatterson who died in 1863. To this union were born four children: William H. of Alden; Charles R. of Enid, Oklahoma, Thomas of Woodland, Washington, and Mary who died in 1879. She moved to Michigan in 1858 and then to Illinois in 1860.She was married to Richard Murphy in 1869 at Chicago, Illinois. To this union were born five children, Sarah J. Garner, Florence Conley, George, Richard, Jr., and Andrew. They moved to Kansas in 1879 and settled near Peace (now Sterling) and moved in 1882 to the farm they now occupy. She is survived by her husband, eight children, thirteen grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren and one brother Robert Bielby of Dowagiac, Michigan. The interment was at Sterling where the Relief Corps and Rebekahs assisted.Family links:
Parents: William Bielby (1807 – 1869) Sarah Dixon Bielby (1809 – 1871)
