William Barkes/Barcus


Company "B" 6th Kansas Cavalry

Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty

WIDOW'S PENSION FILE

1850 Marshall County Census
BARCUS(S) (578)
William...Laborer...29-M...OH
Margaret...39-F...PA
Eleanor...8-F...OH
W. Thomas...6-M...OH
Anne...4-F...OH
Sarah...2-F...VA
Burke, Nancy...13-F...PA

WILLIAM BARKES - Name is also spelled “Barcus” & “Barchus.” At age 40, enrolled and mustered in on Aug. 12, 1861 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; born Ohio. “Contracted Typhoid Fever while in the line of duty and died in hospital of that disease at Camp Moonlight, Kansas, on Sept. 11, 1862.” Kansas Adj. Gen. gives death date as Sept. 12, 1862.

William Barkes, 21, married Margaret (Kirkendall) Burk, a widow, at St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio, on Sept. 19, 1840. In the 1850 census of Marshall County, William Barcus, 29, born in Ohio, & Margaret Barcus, 39, born in Pa., were the parents of Eleanor, 8, W. Thomas, 6, and Anne, 4, all born in Ohio, and Sarah, 2, born in Va. Also in the home was Nancy Burke, age 13, born in Pa., presumably Margaret’s daughter from her first marriage. William was also listed in the 1850 Marshall County Tax Records.

By 1860, the family was in Franklin, Appanoose County, Iowa. William, 40, born in Ohio, and Margaret, 52, born in Pa., were the parents of Mary, 19, Ann, 15, & Thomas, 16, all born in Ohio, and Sarah, 12, and Bethsheba, 7, both born in Va. The widow received Pension Certificate #99.126. The only minor child was Bethsheba, born May 9, 1853, probably when they lived in Marshall County.


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