CENSUS:
1850 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoo Age: 7 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Birth Place: Indiana Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Washington, Owen, Indiana Household Members: Name Age Joseph Bevis 73 Elizabeth McIndoo 3 George McIndoo 9 Jacob McIndoo 3 John McIndoo 5 John McIndoo 44 Joseph McIndoo 7 Margaret J McIndoo 17 Mary A McIndoo 13 Sarah McIndoo 38 Sarah E McIndoo 0 William James McIndoo 11 Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Washington, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M432_164; Page: 93; Image: 187.
1860 United States Federal Census Name: Jos McIndoo Age in 1860: 18 Birth Year: abt 1842 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1860: East Division, Owen, Indiana Gender: Male Post Office: Spencer Household Members: Name Age Jno McIndoo 53 Sarah McIndoo 49 Jas McIndoo 20 Jos McIndoo 18 Jno McIndoo 16 Jac McIndoo 15 Elizabeth McIndoo 15 Sarah E McIndoo 10 Chas McIndoo 6 Census Place: East Division, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M653_287; Page: 41; Image: 42.
1870 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoe Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Age in 1870: 27 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1870: Lafayette, Owen, Indiana Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Vandalia Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoe 27 Martha McIndoe 24 Mary Davis 36 Otes Davis 7 Lue Davis 4 Minnie Davis 2 Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Lafayette, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M593_348; Page: 275; Image: 553.
1880 Unable to locate
1900 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoo Home in 1900: Washington, Greene, Indiana Age: 56 Estimated birth year: abt 1844 Birthplace: Indiana Relationship to head-of-house: Head Race: White Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoo 56 Ollie McIndoo 21 Emmer McIndoo 16 Claud McIndoo 4 Frank McIndoo 1 Nettie McIndoo 23 Clarence Fettig 23 Census Place: Washington, Greene, Indiana; Roll: T623 374; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 39.
1910 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoe[Joseph McIndoo] Age in 1910: 66 Estimated birth year: abt 1844 Birthplace: Indiana Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Kentucky Mother's Birth Place: New Jersey Home in 1910: Washington, Greene, Indiana Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoe 66 Claude McIndoe 14 Rosa Benefield 23 Census Place: Washington, Greene, Indiana; Roll: T624_352; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 47; Image: 1097.
DEATH:
Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 Name: Joseph McIndoo Date: 28 Apr 1915 Location: Lyons Age: 71 yr Gender: Male Race: White Source Location: County Recorders Office, Bloomfield Source Notes: The source of this record is the book H-4 on page 87 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration. Ancestry.com. Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: Various Indiana county death records indexed by the Indiana Works Projects Administration. Indiana: circa 1938-1941.
FAMILY HISTORY:
By Norman Eugene McIndoo 1949---Joseph McIndoo first married Martha Massey but they had no children. His second wife was Rachel C. Waggoner and they had 3 children. Rachel and the third child both died in child birth. His third wife was Anna M. Meese and they had 2 children.
Shortly after coming to Lyons, IN, Joseph and Jacob McIndoo, brothers, ran a blacksmith shop. The 1880 census lists Joseph as a wagon maker and Jacob as a blacksmith, but in the early 1870s they were both blacksmiths, although later they expanded a much larger shop into a buggy and wagon factory. This large one stood just north of the Stein store and just north of it stands the house Norman was born in. Norman has a tin type showing the first blacksmith shop of the McIndoos. Jacob is recognized as the man in the act of shoeing a horse because he has a full beard which Jacob wore until late in life. Joseph is perhaps the man at the head of the horse. In his own hand writing, Joseph wrote the following below the tin type: "McIndoo Bros. Black Smith Shop as it looked in 1870s, located on the ground now occupied by John Dye's Shop." On this same spot a garage was much later built and it is perhaps sill operating.
In 1881, Joseph took a historical sketch that his father John McIndoo (1807-1893) wrote about the early family and put together a manuscript. This manuscript was read at the 50th wedding anniversary of John McIndoo and Sarah Bevis, on April 3, 1882. Rev. Crawford, of Elnora, conducted the funeral services, Interment at Prairie Chapel, in charge of the service IOOF lodge.
In 1884, the McIndoo Brothers bought a 160-acre farm three miles north of Lyons. A little later they added 30 more acres to it by buying a portion of the farm across the road on the east side of the highway running north and south. This 190-acres farm in fact was the better parts of three farms which stretched a mile and quarter along the road running east and west. It was all clay land and could not be compared with the black land east of Lyons which was very early called the Four-mile Mars.
In the spring of 1893, Joseph induced his brother Jacob to trade the farm for the Carpenter and Bull store in Lyons. Joseph had disposed of the factory and had worked sometime in this store and by this time knew considerable about the mercantile business.
This property consisted of five lots and a large four-roomed frame building. The east room was used as a repair shop and for packing eggs which were shipped east to Philadelphia and Baltimore. The large room next to it contained the dry goods and above this room was another one which was used for shows after the Lyons theater building had burned. The next room to the west contained the groceries. On the fourth lot was built a structure which was rented and it usually contained a restaurant. The lot farthest west was sold and a building erected in which was the post office and later George Davidson's grocery store.
The McIndoo Brothers were the tow main pillars of the Christian Church and Joseph was an elder as long as he lived. He was usually the leader and managed the store while his brother Jacob managed a peddling wagon and always had one of his boys with him.
One night in December 1914, the restaurant building which had been sold took on fire and the old store building burned to the ground. At this time Jacob was bedridden with paralysis and Joseph worked so hard trying to put out the fire he took a severe cold from which he never recovered. After the burning of the store they tried to collect the outstanding indebtedness but had no success. The following spring Joseph died and in October of that same year Jacob died. Thus ended the long experiences of the McIndoo Brothers who had been agreeable partners since 1872.
Civil War Record--Joseph McIndoo enlisted as a private on Oct 10, 1861, in Co. "A" 59th Reg. Indiana Vols. Inf. for 3 years but was discharged Sept 8, 1862 on disability. He again enlisted as a private on July 17, 1863, in Co. "G" 115th Reg. Indiana Vols. Inf for 6 months, and 16 days. His description is as follows: age 19, height 5' 8", complexion dark, eyes grey, hair brown, farmer. Remarks: was in the siege of New Madrid and Island, MO, from March 1 to April 8, 1862 and after that was sick most of the time. His certificate of disability for discharge says that Joseph McEndoo about March 6, 1862, at New Madrid was taken with typhoid fever which was followed by laryngitis, and later he had pneumonia. He was discharged Sept 8, 1862 at Indianapolis by order of General Hallick. Joseph and Jefferson McIndoo were with the 115th Reg. which did mostly guard duty and fortified mountain passes at Bull's Gap. While here it is officially admitted that the men subsisted on quarter rations and frequently lived on parched corn. Many of the soldiers were thinly clad and without shoes, and their sufferings from exposure to cold were exceedingly severe. During the winter the regiment was kept on duty in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, marching almost shoeless over rough roads, and enduring many hardships. When discharged in 1864 appeared; "Am't for clothing in kind or money adv'd $32.63. Due U.S. for arms, equipment, etc, $.32. Joseph was pensioned May 26, 1884, on disability of disease of throat and lungs.
Joseph McIndoo, for more than fourty years a resident of Lyons after a long illness of ailments incident to old age, died last wee, aged seventy-two years. He was a member of the 59th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, a member of teh Christian Church and the IOOF logde. He was married three times. Four sons survive him--Ollie, Claude, Emmer and .
MARRIAGE:
1st marriage--Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Martha Massie Marriage Date: 3 Mar 1866 Marriage County: Owen Source Title 1: Owen County Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1850 - 1920 Inclusive Vol Source Title 3: W. P. A. Original Record Located: Compiled by Indi Book: 29 OS Page: 227
2nd marriage---Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Rachel C Waggoner Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1878 Source Title 1: Greene Co, Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1821-1920 [Lacking 1828-1 Source Title 3: W. P. A Book: K OS Page: 310
3rd marriage---Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Anna M Mees Marriage Date: 13 Aug 1893 Source Title 1: Greene Co, Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1821-1920 [Lacking 1828-1 Source Title 3: W. P. A Book: N OS Page: 499
MILITARY:
Index card---Joseph McIndoo (First_Last) Regiment Name 115 Indiana Infantry (6 Months, 1863-4) Side Union Company G Soldier's Rank_In Pvt. Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt. Alternate Name Notes Film Number M540 roll 49
UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS
115th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (6 months, 1863-4)
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered In for 6 months service August 13, 1863. Moved to Nicholasville, Ky., September 16. Attached to Mahan's 1st Brigade, Willcox's Left Wing Forces, Dept. of the Ohio,to February, 1864.
SERVICE.-March from Nicholasville, Ky., to Cumberland Gap September 24-October 3, 1863, and to Morristown October 6-8. Action at Blue Springs October 10. Duty at Greenville till November 6. Moved to Bull's Gap November 6, and duty there till December. March across Clinch Mountain to Clinch River. Action at Walker's Ford December 2. Guard and patrol duty in East Tennessee till February, 1864. Mustered out February 25, 1864.
Regiment lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 69 Enlisted men by disease. Total 70.
Joseph McIndoo (First_Last) Regiment Name 59 Indiana Infantry Side Union Company A Soldier's Rank_In Pvt. Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt. Alternate Name Notes Film Number M540 roll 49
UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS
59th Regiment, Indiana Infantry
Organized at Gosport and Indianapolis, Ind., February 11, 1862. Moved to Commerce, Mo., February 18-22, ,the first Regiment to report to General Pope for duty with the Army of Mississippi. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Mississippi, to April, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Mississippi, April, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Mississippi, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 17th Army Corps, to December, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 15th Army Corps, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.-Siege operations against New Madrid, Mo., March 3-14, 1862. Siege and capture of Island No. 10, Mississippi River, March 15-April 8. Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13-17. Moved to Hazaburg Landing, Tenn., April 18-22. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 30-June 12. Duty at Clear Creek till August 6, and at Jacinto till September 18. March to Iuka, Miss., September 18-20. Battle of Corinth October 3-4. Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. Operations on Mississippi Central Railroad November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Reconnoissance from LaGrange November 8-9, 1862. Duty at Memphis January 12 to February 24, 1863. Yazoo Pass Expedition by Moon Lake, Yazoo Pass and Coldwater and Tallahatchie Rivers February 24-April 8. Operations against Fort Pemberton and Greenwood March 13-April 5. Moved to Milliken's Bend, La., April 13. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1 (Reserve). Jones' Cross Roads and Willow Springs May 3. Battles of Raymond May 12; Jackson May 14; Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4. Duty there till September 13. Movement to Memphis, Tenn., thence march to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 13-November 20. Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Tunnel Hill November 23-25. Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. Duty at Bridgeport and Huntsville, Ala., December 18, 1863, to June 22, 1864. Re-enlisted January 1, 1864. Guard Bridge at Etowah River July 13-August 26. Ordered to Chattanooga, Tenn., August 26. Pursuit of Wheeler August 27-31. Duty at Chattanooga till September 21, and at Etowah River till November 12. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Salkehatchie Swamp, S. C., February 2-5. South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto River February 12-13. Columbia February 16-17. Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June, and there mustered out July 17, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 36 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 229 Enlisted men by disease. Total 266.
OBITUARY:
Obituary of Joseph McIndoo 1843 IN to 1915 IN
The Bloomfield News, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, May 13, 1915, Volume XXXVIII, Number 26, page 5, Column 4
Joseph MCINDOO, for more than forty years a resident of Lyons after a long illness of ailments incident to old age, died last week, aged seventy-two years.
He was a member of the 59TH REGIMENT INDIANA VOLUNTEERS, a member of the Christian church and the I. O. O. F. lodge.
He was married three times. Four sons survive him-Ollie, Claude, Emmer and Frank.
Rev. CRAWFORD, of Elnora, conducted the funeral services. Interment at Prairie Chapel, in charge of the I. O. O. F. lodge.
1850 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoo Age: 7 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Birth Place: Indiana Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Washington, Owen, Indiana Household Members: Name Age Joseph Bevis 73 Elizabeth McIndoo 3 George McIndoo 9 Jacob McIndoo 3 John McIndoo 5 John McIndoo 44 Joseph McIndoo 7 Margaret J McIndoo 17 Mary A McIndoo 13 Sarah McIndoo 38 Sarah E McIndoo 0 William James McIndoo 11 Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Washington, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M432_164; Page: 93; Image: 187.
1860 United States Federal Census Name: Jos McIndoo Age in 1860: 18 Birth Year: abt 1842 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1860: East Division, Owen, Indiana Gender: Male Post Office: Spencer Household Members: Name Age Jno McIndoo 53 Sarah McIndoo 49 Jas McIndoo 20 Jos McIndoo 18 Jno McIndoo 16 Jac McIndoo 15 Elizabeth McIndoo 15 Sarah E McIndoo 10 Chas McIndoo 6 Census Place: East Division, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M653_287; Page: 41; Image: 42.
1870 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoe Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Age in 1870: 27 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1870: Lafayette, Owen, Indiana Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Vandalia Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoe 27 Martha McIndoe 24 Mary Davis 36 Otes Davis 7 Lue Davis 4 Minnie Davis 2 Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Lafayette, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M593_348; Page: 275; Image: 553.
1880 Unable to locate
1900 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoo Home in 1900: Washington, Greene, Indiana Age: 56 Estimated birth year: abt 1844 Birthplace: Indiana Relationship to head-of-house: Head Race: White Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoo 56 Ollie McIndoo 21 Emmer McIndoo 16 Claud McIndoo 4 Frank McIndoo 1 Nettie McIndoo 23 Clarence Fettig 23 Census Place: Washington, Greene, Indiana; Roll: T623 374; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 39.
1910 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoe[Joseph McIndoo] Age in 1910: 66 Estimated birth year: abt 1844 Birthplace: Indiana Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Kentucky Mother's Birth Place: New Jersey Home in 1910: Washington, Greene, Indiana Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoe 66 Claude McIndoe 14 Rosa Benefield 23 Census Place: Washington, Greene, Indiana; Roll: T624_352; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 47; Image: 1097.
DEATH:
Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 Name: Joseph McIndoo Date: 28 Apr 1915 Location: Lyons Age: 71 yr Gender: Male Race: White Source Location: County Recorders Office, Bloomfield Source Notes: The source of this record is the book H-4 on page 87 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration. Ancestry.com. Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: Various Indiana county death records indexed by the Indiana Works Projects Administration. Indiana: circa 1938-1941.
FAMILY HISTORY:
By Norman Eugene McIndoo 1949---Joseph McIndoo first married Martha Massey but they had no children. His second wife was Rachel C. Waggoner and they had 3 children. Rachel and the third child both died in child birth. His third wife was Anna M. Meese and they had 2 children.
Shortly after coming to Lyons, IN, Joseph and Jacob McIndoo, brothers, ran a blacksmith shop. The 1880 census lists Joseph as a wagon maker and Jacob as a blacksmith, but in the early 1870s they were both blacksmiths, although later they expanded a much larger shop into a buggy and wagon factory. This large one stood just north of the Stein store and just north of it stands the house Norman was born in. Norman has a tin type showing the first blacksmith shop of the McIndoos. Jacob is recognized as the man in the act of shoeing a horse because he has a full beard which Jacob wore until late in life. Joseph is perhaps the man at the head of the horse. In his own hand writing, Joseph wrote the following below the tin type: "McIndoo Bros. Black Smith Shop as it looked in 1870s, located on the ground now occupied by John Dye's Shop." On this same spot a garage was much later built and it is perhaps sill operating.
In 1881, Joseph took a historical sketch that his father John McIndoo (1807-1893) wrote about the early family and put together a manuscript. This manuscript was read at the 50th wedding anniversary of John McIndoo and Sarah Bevis, on April 3, 1882. Rev. Crawford, of Elnora, conducted the funeral services, Interment at Prairie Chapel, in charge of the service IOOF lodge.
In 1884, the McIndoo Brothers bought a 160-acre farm three miles north of Lyons. A little later they added 30 more acres to it by buying a portion of the farm across the road on the east side of the highway running north and south. This 190-acres farm in fact was the better parts of three farms which stretched a mile and quarter along the road running east and west. It was all clay land and could not be compared with the black land east of Lyons which was very early called the Four-mile Mars.
In the spring of 1893, Joseph induced his brother Jacob to trade the farm for the Carpenter and Bull store in Lyons. Joseph had disposed of the factory and had worked sometime in this store and by this time knew considerable about the mercantile business.
This property consisted of five lots and a large four-roomed frame building. The east room was used as a repair shop and for packing eggs which were shipped east to Philadelphia and Baltimore. The large room next to it contained the dry goods and above this room was another one which was used for shows after the Lyons theater building had burned. The next room to the west contained the groceries. On the fourth lot was built a structure which was rented and it usually contained a restaurant. The lot farthest west was sold and a building erected in which was the post office and later George Davidson's grocery store.
The McIndoo Brothers were the tow main pillars of the Christian Church and Joseph was an elder as long as he lived. He was usually the leader and managed the store while his brother Jacob managed a peddling wagon and always had one of his boys with him.
One night in December 1914, the restaurant building which had been sold took on fire and the old store building burned to the ground. At this time Jacob was bedridden with paralysis and Joseph worked so hard trying to put out the fire he took a severe cold from which he never recovered. After the burning of the store they tried to collect the outstanding indebtedness but had no success. The following spring Joseph died and in October of that same year Jacob died. Thus ended the long experiences of the McIndoo Brothers who had been agreeable partners since 1872.
Civil War Record--Joseph McIndoo enlisted as a private on Oct 10, 1861, in Co. "A" 59th Reg. Indiana Vols. Inf. for 3 years but was discharged Sept 8, 1862 on disability. He again enlisted as a private on July 17, 1863, in Co. "G" 115th Reg. Indiana Vols. Inf for 6 months, and 16 days. His description is as follows: age 19, height 5' 8", complexion dark, eyes grey, hair brown, farmer. Remarks: was in the siege of New Madrid and Island, MO, from March 1 to April 8, 1862 and after that was sick most of the time. His certificate of disability for discharge says that Joseph McEndoo about March 6, 1862, at New Madrid was taken with typhoid fever which was followed by laryngitis, and later he had pneumonia. He was discharged Sept 8, 1862 at Indianapolis by order of General Hallick. Joseph and Jefferson McIndoo were with the 115th Reg. which did mostly guard duty and fortified mountain passes at Bull's Gap. While here it is officially admitted that the men subsisted on quarter rations and frequently lived on parched corn. Many of the soldiers were thinly clad and without shoes, and their sufferings from exposure to cold were exceedingly severe. During the winter the regiment was kept on duty in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, marching almost shoeless over rough roads, and enduring many hardships. When discharged in 1864 appeared; "Am't for clothing in kind or money adv'd $32.63. Due U.S. for arms, equipment, etc, $.32. Joseph was pensioned May 26, 1884, on disability of disease of throat and lungs.
Joseph McIndoo, for more than fourty years a resident of Lyons after a long illness of ailments incident to old age, died last wee, aged seventy-two years. He was a member of the 59th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, a member of teh Christian Church and the IOOF logde. He was married three times. Four sons survive him--Ollie, Claude, Emmer and .
MARRIAGE:
1st marriage--Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Martha Massie Marriage Date: 3 Mar 1866 Marriage County: Owen Source Title 1: Owen County Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1850 - 1920 Inclusive Vol Source Title 3: W. P. A. Original Record Located: Compiled by Indi Book: 29 OS Page: 227
2nd marriage---Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Rachel C Waggoner Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1878 Source Title 1: Greene Co, Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1821-1920 [Lacking 1828-1 Source Title 3: W. P. A Book: K OS Page: 310
3rd marriage---Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Anna M Mees Marriage Date: 13 Aug 1893 Source Title 1: Greene Co, Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1821-1920 [Lacking 1828-1 Source Title 3: W. P. A Book: N OS Page: 499
MILITARY:
Index card---Joseph McIndoo (First_Last) Regiment Name 115 Indiana Infantry (6 Months, 1863-4) Side Union Company G Soldier's Rank_In Pvt. Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt. Alternate Name Notes Film Number M540 roll 49
UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS
115th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (6 months, 1863-4)
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered In for 6 months service August 13, 1863. Moved to Nicholasville, Ky., September 16. Attached to Mahan's 1st Brigade, Willcox's Left Wing Forces, Dept. of the Ohio,to February, 1864.
SERVICE.-March from Nicholasville, Ky., to Cumberland Gap September 24-October 3, 1863, and to Morristown October 6-8. Action at Blue Springs October 10. Duty at Greenville till November 6. Moved to Bull's Gap November 6, and duty there till December. March across Clinch Mountain to Clinch River. Action at Walker's Ford December 2. Guard and patrol duty in East Tennessee till February, 1864. Mustered out February 25, 1864.
Regiment lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 69 Enlisted men by disease. Total 70.
Joseph McIndoo (First_Last) Regiment Name 59 Indiana Infantry Side Union Company A Soldier's Rank_In Pvt. Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt. Alternate Name Notes Film Number M540 roll 49
UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS
59th Regiment, Indiana Infantry
Organized at Gosport and Indianapolis, Ind., February 11, 1862. Moved to Commerce, Mo., February 18-22, ,the first Regiment to report to General Pope for duty with the Army of Mississippi. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Mississippi, to April, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Mississippi, April, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Mississippi, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 17th Army Corps, to December, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 15th Army Corps, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.-Siege operations against New Madrid, Mo., March 3-14, 1862. Siege and capture of Island No. 10, Mississippi River, March 15-April 8. Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13-17. Moved to Hazaburg Landing, Tenn., April 18-22. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 30-June 12. Duty at Clear Creek till August 6, and at Jacinto till September 18. March to Iuka, Miss., September 18-20. Battle of Corinth October 3-4. Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. Operations on Mississippi Central Railroad November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Reconnoissance from LaGrange November 8-9, 1862. Duty at Memphis January 12 to February 24, 1863. Yazoo Pass Expedition by Moon Lake, Yazoo Pass and Coldwater and Tallahatchie Rivers February 24-April 8. Operations against Fort Pemberton and Greenwood March 13-April 5. Moved to Milliken's Bend, La., April 13. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1 (Reserve). Jones' Cross Roads and Willow Springs May 3. Battles of Raymond May 12; Jackson May 14; Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4. Duty there till September 13. Movement to Memphis, Tenn., thence march to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 13-November 20. Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Tunnel Hill November 23-25. Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. Duty at Bridgeport and Huntsville, Ala., December 18, 1863, to June 22, 1864. Re-enlisted January 1, 1864. Guard Bridge at Etowah River July 13-August 26. Ordered to Chattanooga, Tenn., August 26. Pursuit of Wheeler August 27-31. Duty at Chattanooga till September 21, and at Etowah River till November 12. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Salkehatchie Swamp, S. C., February 2-5. South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto River February 12-13. Columbia February 16-17. Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June, and there mustered out July 17, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 36 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 229 Enlisted men by disease. Total 266.
OBITUARY:
Obituary of Joseph McIndoo 1843 IN to 1915 IN
The Bloomfield News, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, May 13, 1915, Volume XXXVIII, Number 26, page 5, Column 4
Joseph MCINDOO, for more than forty years a resident of Lyons after a long illness of ailments incident to old age, died last week, aged seventy-two years.
He was a member of the 59TH REGIMENT INDIANA VOLUNTEERS, a member of the Christian church and the I. O. O. F. lodge.
He was married three times. Four sons survive him-Ollie, Claude, Emmer and Frank.
Rev. CRAWFORD, of Elnora, conducted the funeral services. Interment at Prairie Chapel, in charge of the I. O. O. F. lodge.
CENSUS:
1850 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoo Age: 7 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Birth Place: Indiana Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Washington, Owen, Indiana Household Members: Name Age Joseph Bevis 73 Elizabeth McIndoo 3 George McIndoo 9 Jacob McIndoo 3 John McIndoo 5 John McIndoo 44 Joseph McIndoo 7 Margaret J McIndoo 17 Mary A McIndoo 13 Sarah McIndoo 38 Sarah E McIndoo 0 William James McIndoo 11 Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Washington, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M432_164; Page: 93; Image: 187.
1860 United States Federal Census Name: Jos McIndoo Age in 1860: 18 Birth Year: abt 1842 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1860: East Division, Owen, Indiana Gender: Male Post Office: Spencer Household Members: Name Age Jno McIndoo 53 Sarah McIndoo 49 Jas McIndoo 20 Jos McIndoo 18 Jno McIndoo 16 Jac McIndoo 15 Elizabeth McIndoo 15 Sarah E McIndoo 10 Chas McIndoo 6 Census Place: East Division, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M653_287; Page: 41; Image: 42.
1870 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoe Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Age in 1870: 27 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1870: Lafayette, Owen, Indiana Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Vandalia Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoe 27 Martha McIndoe 24 Mary Davis 36 Otes Davis 7 Lue Davis 4 Minnie Davis 2 Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Lafayette, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M593_348; Page: 275; Image: 553.
1880 Unable to locate
1900 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoo Home in 1900: Washington, Greene, Indiana Age: 56 Estimated birth year: abt 1844 Birthplace: Indiana Relationship to head-of-house: Head Race: White Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoo 56 Ollie McIndoo 21 Emmer McIndoo 16 Claud McIndoo 4 Frank McIndoo 1 Nettie McIndoo 23 Clarence Fettig 23 Census Place: Washington, Greene, Indiana; Roll: T623 374; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 39.
1910 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoe[Joseph McIndoo] Age in 1910: 66 Estimated birth year: abt 1844 Birthplace: Indiana Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Kentucky Mother's Birth Place: New Jersey Home in 1910: Washington, Greene, Indiana Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoe 66 Claude McIndoe 14 Rosa Benefield 23 Census Place: Washington, Greene, Indiana; Roll: T624_352; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 47; Image: 1097.
DEATH:
Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 Name: Joseph McIndoo Date: 28 Apr 1915 Location: Lyons Age: 71 yr Gender: Male Race: White Source Location: County Recorders Office, Bloomfield Source Notes: The source of this record is the book H-4 on page 87 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration. Ancestry.com. Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: Various Indiana county death records indexed by the Indiana Works Projects Administration. Indiana: circa 1938-1941.
FAMILY HISTORY:
By Norman Eugene McIndoo 1949---Joseph McIndoo first married Martha Massey but they had no children. His second wife was Rachel C. Waggoner and they had 3 children. Rachel and the third child both died in child birth. His third wife was Anna M. Meese and they had 2 children.
Shortly after coming to Lyons, IN, Joseph and Jacob McIndoo, brothers, ran a blacksmith shop. The 1880 census lists Joseph as a wagon maker and Jacob as a blacksmith, but in the early 1870s they were both blacksmiths, although later they expanded a much larger shop into a buggy and wagon factory. This large one stood just north of the Stein store and just north of it stands the house Norman was born in. Norman has a tin type showing the first blacksmith shop of the McIndoos. Jacob is recognized as the man in the act of shoeing a horse because he has a full beard which Jacob wore until late in life. Joseph is perhaps the man at the head of the horse. In his own hand writing, Joseph wrote the following below the tin type: "McIndoo Bros. Black Smith Shop as it looked in 1870s, located on the ground now occupied by John Dye's Shop." On this same spot a garage was much later built and it is perhaps sill operating.
In 1881, Joseph took a historical sketch that his father John McIndoo (1807-1893) wrote about the early family and put together a manuscript. This manuscript was read at the 50th wedding anniversary of John McIndoo and Sarah Bevis, on April 3, 1882. Rev. Crawford, of Elnora, conducted the funeral services, Interment at Prairie Chapel, in charge of the service IOOF lodge.
In 1884, the McIndoo Brothers bought a 160-acre farm three miles north of Lyons. A little later they added 30 more acres to it by buying a portion of the farm across the road on the east side of the highway running north and south. This 190-acres farm in fact was the better parts of three farms which stretched a mile and quarter along the road running east and west. It was all clay land and could not be compared with the black land east of Lyons which was very early called the Four-mile Mars.
In the spring of 1893, Joseph induced his brother Jacob to trade the farm for the Carpenter and Bull store in Lyons. Joseph had disposed of the factory and had worked sometime in this store and by this time knew considerable about the mercantile business.
This property consisted of five lots and a large four-roomed frame building. The east room was used as a repair shop and for packing eggs which were shipped east to Philadelphia and Baltimore. The large room next to it contained the dry goods and above this room was another one which was used for shows after the Lyons theater building had burned. The next room to the west contained the groceries. On the fourth lot was built a structure which was rented and it usually contained a restaurant. The lot farthest west was sold and a building erected in which was the post office and later George Davidson's grocery store.
The McIndoo Brothers were the tow main pillars of the Christian Church and Joseph was an elder as long as he lived. He was usually the leader and managed the store while his brother Jacob managed a peddling wagon and always had one of his boys with him.
One night in December 1914, the restaurant building which had been sold took on fire and the old store building burned to the ground. At this time Jacob was bedridden with paralysis and Joseph worked so hard trying to put out the fire he took a severe cold from which he never recovered. After the burning of the store they tried to collect the outstanding indebtedness but had no success. The following spring Joseph died and in October of that same year Jacob died. Thus ended the long experiences of the McIndoo Brothers who had been agreeable partners since 1872.
Civil War Record--Joseph McIndoo enlisted as a private on Oct 10, 1861, in Co. "A" 59th Reg. Indiana Vols. Inf. for 3 years but was discharged Sept 8, 1862 on disability. He again enlisted as a private on July 17, 1863, in Co. "G" 115th Reg. Indiana Vols. Inf for 6 months, and 16 days. His description is as follows: age 19, height 5' 8", complexion dark, eyes grey, hair brown, farmer. Remarks: was in the siege of New Madrid and Island, MO, from March 1 to April 8, 1862 and after that was sick most of the time. His certificate of disability for discharge says that Joseph McEndoo about March 6, 1862, at New Madrid was taken with typhoid fever which was followed by laryngitis, and later he had pneumonia. He was discharged Sept 8, 1862 at Indianapolis by order of General Hallick. Joseph and Jefferson McIndoo were with the 115th Reg. which did mostly guard duty and fortified mountain passes at Bull's Gap. While here it is officially admitted that the men subsisted on quarter rations and frequently lived on parched corn. Many of the soldiers were thinly clad and without shoes, and their sufferings from exposure to cold were exceedingly severe. During the winter the regiment was kept on duty in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, marching almost shoeless over rough roads, and enduring many hardships. When discharged in 1864 appeared; "Am't for clothing in kind or money adv'd $32.63. Due U.S. for arms, equipment, etc, $.32. Joseph was pensioned May 26, 1884, on disability of disease of throat and lungs.
Joseph McIndoo, for more than fourty years a resident of Lyons after a long illness of ailments incident to old age, died last wee, aged seventy-two years. He was a member of the 59th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, a member of teh Christian Church and the IOOF logde. He was married three times. Four sons survive him--Ollie, Claude, Emmer and .
MARRIAGE:
1st marriage--Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Martha Massie Marriage Date: 3 Mar 1866 Marriage County: Owen Source Title 1: Owen County Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1850 - 1920 Inclusive Vol Source Title 3: W. P. A. Original Record Located: Compiled by Indi Book: 29 OS Page: 227
2nd marriage---Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Rachel C Waggoner Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1878 Source Title 1: Greene Co, Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1821-1920 [Lacking 1828-1 Source Title 3: W. P. A Book: K OS Page: 310
3rd marriage---Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Anna M Mees Marriage Date: 13 Aug 1893 Source Title 1: Greene Co, Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1821-1920 [Lacking 1828-1 Source Title 3: W. P. A Book: N OS Page: 499
MILITARY:
Index card---Joseph McIndoo (First_Last) Regiment Name 115 Indiana Infantry (6 Months, 1863-4) Side Union Company G Soldier's Rank_In Pvt. Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt. Alternate Name Notes Film Number M540 roll 49
UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS
115th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (6 months, 1863-4)
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered In for 6 months service August 13, 1863. Moved to Nicholasville, Ky., September 16. Attached to Mahan's 1st Brigade, Willcox's Left Wing Forces, Dept. of the Ohio,to February, 1864.
SERVICE.-March from Nicholasville, Ky., to Cumberland Gap September 24-October 3, 1863, and to Morristown October 6-8. Action at Blue Springs October 10. Duty at Greenville till November 6. Moved to Bull's Gap November 6, and duty there till December. March across Clinch Mountain to Clinch River. Action at Walker's Ford December 2. Guard and patrol duty in East Tennessee till February, 1864. Mustered out February 25, 1864.
Regiment lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 69 Enlisted men by disease. Total 70.
Joseph McIndoo (First_Last) Regiment Name 59 Indiana Infantry Side Union Company A Soldier's Rank_In Pvt. Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt. Alternate Name Notes Film Number M540 roll 49
UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS
59th Regiment, Indiana Infantry
Organized at Gosport and Indianapolis, Ind., February 11, 1862. Moved to Commerce, Mo., February 18-22, ,the first Regiment to report to General Pope for duty with the Army of Mississippi. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Mississippi, to April, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Mississippi, April, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Mississippi, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 17th Army Corps, to December, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 15th Army Corps, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.-Siege operations against New Madrid, Mo., March 3-14, 1862. Siege and capture of Island No. 10, Mississippi River, March 15-April 8. Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13-17. Moved to Hazaburg Landing, Tenn., April 18-22. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 30-June 12. Duty at Clear Creek till August 6, and at Jacinto till September 18. March to Iuka, Miss., September 18-20. Battle of Corinth October 3-4. Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. Operations on Mississippi Central Railroad November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Reconnoissance from LaGrange November 8-9, 1862. Duty at Memphis January 12 to February 24, 1863. Yazoo Pass Expedition by Moon Lake, Yazoo Pass and Coldwater and Tallahatchie Rivers February 24-April 8. Operations against Fort Pemberton and Greenwood March 13-April 5. Moved to Milliken's Bend, La., April 13. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1 (Reserve). Jones' Cross Roads and Willow Springs May 3. Battles of Raymond May 12; Jackson May 14; Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4. Duty there till September 13. Movement to Memphis, Tenn., thence march to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 13-November 20. Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Tunnel Hill November 23-25. Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. Duty at Bridgeport and Huntsville, Ala., December 18, 1863, to June 22, 1864. Re-enlisted January 1, 1864. Guard Bridge at Etowah River July 13-August 26. Ordered to Chattanooga, Tenn., August 26. Pursuit of Wheeler August 27-31. Duty at Chattanooga till September 21, and at Etowah River till November 12. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Salkehatchie Swamp, S. C., February 2-5. South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto River February 12-13. Columbia February 16-17. Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June, and there mustered out July 17, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 36 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 229 Enlisted men by disease. Total 266.
OBITUARY:
Obituary of Joseph McIndoo 1843 IN to 1915 IN
The Bloomfield News, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, May 13, 1915, Volume XXXVIII, Number 26, page 5, Column 4
Joseph MCINDOO, for more than forty years a resident of Lyons after a long illness of ailments incident to old age, died last week, aged seventy-two years.
He was a member of the 59TH REGIMENT INDIANA VOLUNTEERS, a member of the Christian church and the I. O. O. F. lodge.
He was married three times. Four sons survive him-Ollie, Claude, Emmer and Frank.
Rev. CRAWFORD, of Elnora, conducted the funeral services. Interment at Prairie Chapel, in charge of the I. O. O. F. lodge.
1850 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoo Age: 7 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Birth Place: Indiana Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Washington, Owen, Indiana Household Members: Name Age Joseph Bevis 73 Elizabeth McIndoo 3 George McIndoo 9 Jacob McIndoo 3 John McIndoo 5 John McIndoo 44 Joseph McIndoo 7 Margaret J McIndoo 17 Mary A McIndoo 13 Sarah McIndoo 38 Sarah E McIndoo 0 William James McIndoo 11 Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Washington, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M432_164; Page: 93; Image: 187.
1860 United States Federal Census Name: Jos McIndoo Age in 1860: 18 Birth Year: abt 1842 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1860: East Division, Owen, Indiana Gender: Male Post Office: Spencer Household Members: Name Age Jno McIndoo 53 Sarah McIndoo 49 Jas McIndoo 20 Jos McIndoo 18 Jno McIndoo 16 Jac McIndoo 15 Elizabeth McIndoo 15 Sarah E McIndoo 10 Chas McIndoo 6 Census Place: East Division, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M653_287; Page: 41; Image: 42.
1870 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoe Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Age in 1870: 27 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1870: Lafayette, Owen, Indiana Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Vandalia Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoe 27 Martha McIndoe 24 Mary Davis 36 Otes Davis 7 Lue Davis 4 Minnie Davis 2 Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Lafayette, Owen, Indiana; Roll: M593_348; Page: 275; Image: 553.
1880 Unable to locate
1900 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoo Home in 1900: Washington, Greene, Indiana Age: 56 Estimated birth year: abt 1844 Birthplace: Indiana Relationship to head-of-house: Head Race: White Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoo 56 Ollie McIndoo 21 Emmer McIndoo 16 Claud McIndoo 4 Frank McIndoo 1 Nettie McIndoo 23 Clarence Fettig 23 Census Place: Washington, Greene, Indiana; Roll: T623 374; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 39.
1910 United States Federal Census Name: Joseph McIndoe[Joseph McIndoo] Age in 1910: 66 Estimated birth year: abt 1844 Birthplace: Indiana Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Kentucky Mother's Birth Place: New Jersey Home in 1910: Washington, Greene, Indiana Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Joseph McIndoe 66 Claude McIndoe 14 Rosa Benefield 23 Census Place: Washington, Greene, Indiana; Roll: T624_352; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 47; Image: 1097.
DEATH:
Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 Name: Joseph McIndoo Date: 28 Apr 1915 Location: Lyons Age: 71 yr Gender: Male Race: White Source Location: County Recorders Office, Bloomfield Source Notes: The source of this record is the book H-4 on page 87 within the series produced by the Indiana Works Progress Administration. Ancestry.com. Indiana Deaths, 1882-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: Various Indiana county death records indexed by the Indiana Works Projects Administration. Indiana: circa 1938-1941.
FAMILY HISTORY:
By Norman Eugene McIndoo 1949---Joseph McIndoo first married Martha Massey but they had no children. His second wife was Rachel C. Waggoner and they had 3 children. Rachel and the third child both died in child birth. His third wife was Anna M. Meese and they had 2 children.
Shortly after coming to Lyons, IN, Joseph and Jacob McIndoo, brothers, ran a blacksmith shop. The 1880 census lists Joseph as a wagon maker and Jacob as a blacksmith, but in the early 1870s they were both blacksmiths, although later they expanded a much larger shop into a buggy and wagon factory. This large one stood just north of the Stein store and just north of it stands the house Norman was born in. Norman has a tin type showing the first blacksmith shop of the McIndoos. Jacob is recognized as the man in the act of shoeing a horse because he has a full beard which Jacob wore until late in life. Joseph is perhaps the man at the head of the horse. In his own hand writing, Joseph wrote the following below the tin type: "McIndoo Bros. Black Smith Shop as it looked in 1870s, located on the ground now occupied by John Dye's Shop." On this same spot a garage was much later built and it is perhaps sill operating.
In 1881, Joseph took a historical sketch that his father John McIndoo (1807-1893) wrote about the early family and put together a manuscript. This manuscript was read at the 50th wedding anniversary of John McIndoo and Sarah Bevis, on April 3, 1882. Rev. Crawford, of Elnora, conducted the funeral services, Interment at Prairie Chapel, in charge of the service IOOF lodge.
In 1884, the McIndoo Brothers bought a 160-acre farm three miles north of Lyons. A little later they added 30 more acres to it by buying a portion of the farm across the road on the east side of the highway running north and south. This 190-acres farm in fact was the better parts of three farms which stretched a mile and quarter along the road running east and west. It was all clay land and could not be compared with the black land east of Lyons which was very early called the Four-mile Mars.
In the spring of 1893, Joseph induced his brother Jacob to trade the farm for the Carpenter and Bull store in Lyons. Joseph had disposed of the factory and had worked sometime in this store and by this time knew considerable about the mercantile business.
This property consisted of five lots and a large four-roomed frame building. The east room was used as a repair shop and for packing eggs which were shipped east to Philadelphia and Baltimore. The large room next to it contained the dry goods and above this room was another one which was used for shows after the Lyons theater building had burned. The next room to the west contained the groceries. On the fourth lot was built a structure which was rented and it usually contained a restaurant. The lot farthest west was sold and a building erected in which was the post office and later George Davidson's grocery store.
The McIndoo Brothers were the tow main pillars of the Christian Church and Joseph was an elder as long as he lived. He was usually the leader and managed the store while his brother Jacob managed a peddling wagon and always had one of his boys with him.
One night in December 1914, the restaurant building which had been sold took on fire and the old store building burned to the ground. At this time Jacob was bedridden with paralysis and Joseph worked so hard trying to put out the fire he took a severe cold from which he never recovered. After the burning of the store they tried to collect the outstanding indebtedness but had no success. The following spring Joseph died and in October of that same year Jacob died. Thus ended the long experiences of the McIndoo Brothers who had been agreeable partners since 1872.
Civil War Record--Joseph McIndoo enlisted as a private on Oct 10, 1861, in Co. "A" 59th Reg. Indiana Vols. Inf. for 3 years but was discharged Sept 8, 1862 on disability. He again enlisted as a private on July 17, 1863, in Co. "G" 115th Reg. Indiana Vols. Inf for 6 months, and 16 days. His description is as follows: age 19, height 5' 8", complexion dark, eyes grey, hair brown, farmer. Remarks: was in the siege of New Madrid and Island, MO, from March 1 to April 8, 1862 and after that was sick most of the time. His certificate of disability for discharge says that Joseph McEndoo about March 6, 1862, at New Madrid was taken with typhoid fever which was followed by laryngitis, and later he had pneumonia. He was discharged Sept 8, 1862 at Indianapolis by order of General Hallick. Joseph and Jefferson McIndoo were with the 115th Reg. which did mostly guard duty and fortified mountain passes at Bull's Gap. While here it is officially admitted that the men subsisted on quarter rations and frequently lived on parched corn. Many of the soldiers were thinly clad and without shoes, and their sufferings from exposure to cold were exceedingly severe. During the winter the regiment was kept on duty in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, marching almost shoeless over rough roads, and enduring many hardships. When discharged in 1864 appeared; "Am't for clothing in kind or money adv'd $32.63. Due U.S. for arms, equipment, etc, $.32. Joseph was pensioned May 26, 1884, on disability of disease of throat and lungs.
Joseph McIndoo, for more than fourty years a resident of Lyons after a long illness of ailments incident to old age, died last wee, aged seventy-two years. He was a member of the 59th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, a member of teh Christian Church and the IOOF logde. He was married three times. Four sons survive him--Ollie, Claude, Emmer and .
MARRIAGE:
1st marriage--Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Martha Massie Marriage Date: 3 Mar 1866 Marriage County: Owen Source Title 1: Owen County Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1850 - 1920 Inclusive Vol Source Title 3: W. P. A. Original Record Located: Compiled by Indi Book: 29 OS Page: 227
2nd marriage---Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Rachel C Waggoner Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1878 Source Title 1: Greene Co, Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1821-1920 [Lacking 1828-1 Source Title 3: W. P. A Book: K OS Page: 310
3rd marriage---Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 Name: Joseph McIndoo Spouse Name: Anna M Mees Marriage Date: 13 Aug 1893 Source Title 1: Greene Co, Indiana Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1821-1920 [Lacking 1828-1 Source Title 3: W. P. A Book: N OS Page: 499
MILITARY:
Index card---Joseph McIndoo (First_Last) Regiment Name 115 Indiana Infantry (6 Months, 1863-4) Side Union Company G Soldier's Rank_In Pvt. Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt. Alternate Name Notes Film Number M540 roll 49
UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS
115th Regiment, Indiana Infantry (6 months, 1863-4)
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and mustered In for 6 months service August 13, 1863. Moved to Nicholasville, Ky., September 16. Attached to Mahan's 1st Brigade, Willcox's Left Wing Forces, Dept. of the Ohio,to February, 1864.
SERVICE.-March from Nicholasville, Ky., to Cumberland Gap September 24-October 3, 1863, and to Morristown October 6-8. Action at Blue Springs October 10. Duty at Greenville till November 6. Moved to Bull's Gap November 6, and duty there till December. March across Clinch Mountain to Clinch River. Action at Walker's Ford December 2. Guard and patrol duty in East Tennessee till February, 1864. Mustered out February 25, 1864.
Regiment lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 69 Enlisted men by disease. Total 70.
Joseph McIndoo (First_Last) Regiment Name 59 Indiana Infantry Side Union Company A Soldier's Rank_In Pvt. Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt. Alternate Name Notes Film Number M540 roll 49
UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS
59th Regiment, Indiana Infantry
Organized at Gosport and Indianapolis, Ind., February 11, 1862. Moved to Commerce, Mo., February 18-22, ,the first Regiment to report to General Pope for duty with the Army of Mississippi. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Mississippi, to April, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Mississippi, April, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Mississippi, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 17th Army Corps, to December, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 15th Army Corps, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.-Siege operations against New Madrid, Mo., March 3-14, 1862. Siege and capture of Island No. 10, Mississippi River, March 15-April 8. Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13-17. Moved to Hazaburg Landing, Tenn., April 18-22. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 30-June 12. Duty at Clear Creek till August 6, and at Jacinto till September 18. March to Iuka, Miss., September 18-20. Battle of Corinth October 3-4. Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. Operations on Mississippi Central Railroad November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Reconnoissance from LaGrange November 8-9, 1862. Duty at Memphis January 12 to February 24, 1863. Yazoo Pass Expedition by Moon Lake, Yazoo Pass and Coldwater and Tallahatchie Rivers February 24-April 8. Operations against Fort Pemberton and Greenwood March 13-April 5. Moved to Milliken's Bend, La., April 13. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson May 1 (Reserve). Jones' Cross Roads and Willow Springs May 3. Battles of Raymond May 12; Jackson May 14; Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4. Duty there till September 13. Movement to Memphis, Tenn., thence march to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 13-November 20. Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Tunnel Hill November 23-25. Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. Duty at Bridgeport and Huntsville, Ala., December 18, 1863, to June 22, 1864. Re-enlisted January 1, 1864. Guard Bridge at Etowah River July 13-August 26. Ordered to Chattanooga, Tenn., August 26. Pursuit of Wheeler August 27-31. Duty at Chattanooga till September 21, and at Etowah River till November 12. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Salkehatchie Swamp, S. C., February 2-5. South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto River February 12-13. Columbia February 16-17. Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June, and there mustered out July 17, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 36 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 229 Enlisted men by disease. Total 266.
OBITUARY:
Obituary of Joseph McIndoo 1843 IN to 1915 IN
The Bloomfield News, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, May 13, 1915, Volume XXXVIII, Number 26, page 5, Column 4
Joseph MCINDOO, for more than forty years a resident of Lyons after a long illness of ailments incident to old age, died last week, aged seventy-two years.
He was a member of the 59TH REGIMENT INDIANA VOLUNTEERS, a member of the Christian church and the I. O. O. F. lodge.
He was married three times. Four sons survive him-Ollie, Claude, Emmer and Frank.
Rev. CRAWFORD, of Elnora, conducted the funeral services. Interment at Prairie Chapel, in charge of the I. O. O. F. lodge.
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