BARNEY THORNBERRY

Company "B" 15th Ohio Infantry (3 Months) & Company "A" 3rd W.Va. Cavalry

Researched & Compiled by Linda Cunningham Fluharty

1850 Marshall County Census
THORNBERRY (579)
John...Farmer...63-M...Ocean
Jane...49-F...PA
Nancy...20-F...PA
John...Laborer...16-M...PA
Margaret...14-F...VA
Barney...12-M...VA
Hannah...19-F...PA

Service Record: Enlisted May 8, 1861 in Company “B” 15th Ohio Infantry; mustered out Aug. 30, 1861. At age 26, he joined for duty & enrolled at Wheeling on Dec. 16, 1861 to serve in Company “A” of the 3rd W.Va. Cavalry. He mustered in Dec. 23, 1861 at Camp Carlisle, Wheeling. “Died of a fever at General Hospital, Wheeling, on March 25, 1862.”

Barney Thornberry, 12, born in Virginia, son of John and Jane, is named in the 1850 census of Marshall County, at which time his siblings were Nancy, John, Margaret and Hannah. John Thornberry and his family also lived in Marshall County at the time of the 1840 census, making it very possible that Barney was born in Marshall County.

According to the Grave Registration for placement of a government gravestone, Barney Thornberry is buried at Weeks Cemetery in Belmont County, Ohio. The Civil War service stated on the gravestone card is from his three-month service in the Ohio Infantry, perhaps due to the people placing the order not realizing he had also served in the 3rd W.Va. Cavalry, albeit very briefly.

Barney had married Elizabeth McPherson on August 20, 1861 at Belmont County, and she received pension Certificate #6775, based on his service in the 3rd W.Va. Cav. - She stated he had died of Typhoid Fever. They had no children.


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