JAMES DELANEY

Company "B" 7th West Virginia Infantry

Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty

1860 Marshall County Census
DELANY (919)
James...32-wm...farmer...PA
Tabitha...38-wf...OH
Mary B...9-wf...VA
Nancy D...7-wf...VA
Edgar M...5-wm...VA
Sarah L...3-wf...VA

Service Record: Drafted Sept. 23, 1864 at Wheeling for one year. He was a farmer, born in Greene County, Pa., and mustered in at Wheeling on Mar. 13, 1865. “Date of commencement of service Apr. 14, 1865.” His age was misstated as 21 in the 1865 W.Va. Adjutant General’s Report, and in his Service Record; he was actually in his late thirties. (In the U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 for Marshall County, he was 32 and married.) He appears on the Company Muster-Out Roll dated July 1, 1865 and arrived home on July 6.

He died 8 days later at his residence in Wetzel County. From Widow’s Pension file: Late Capt. Barnett was in command of company and states from personal knowledge & makes oath that Delaney was “taken with Chronic Diarrhea at Munson Hill, Virginia on or about the 1st day of May 1865 while in the service of the United States and in the line of duty which disease was contracted from hard marching and drinking bad water. He further stated, “that said disease still continued to affect him and was growing worse at the time he was mustered out of the U. S. Service which was on the 1st day of July 1865.” “Habits temperate and good.” Dr. Henthorn, of Monroe County, Ohio, makes affidavit that he “was first called to see him on the seventh of July, 1865, and found him suffering with Chronic Diarrhea, and considered him past recovery at that time, which caused his death on the 9th day of July 1865.”

The son of William Delaney and Nancy Wood, he married Tabitha Rush, born in Monroe County, Ohio, “on Jan. 3, 1850 at Wetzel County,” per affidavit of clergyman, Thomas H. Snodgrass, and contained in her pension application. (The widow stated that she was married at Lynn Camp.)

In the 1850 census, James, 22, and Tabitha, 27, were residents of Wetzel County.

By 1860, they lived in Marshall County, Adaline Post Office, and their children were Mary B., 9; Nancy D., 7; Edgar M., 5; Sarah L., 3. Another son, Jonathan, born in 1861, was listed in the 1870 census of Wetzel County, as well as in the widow’s pension application.

James Delaney is buried at Sivert-Rush Cemetery, Wetzel County. - Tabitha Delaney applied for a government pension in Sept. 1866 and received Certificate #103257. She died in 1881.


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