He married Ivy Irene Best 22 Jan, 1837 in Kentucky.

They had six children: Charles Benjamin, Mary Lenore, Samuel Theodore, Sarah Ann, Ellen May and Agnes Virginia.


He married his second wife, Martha Allie Lear, in Shelby County, Missouri on 26 Feb. 1857.

They had eight children: James William, Adella Walker, Beatrice Irene, Ida Elizabeth, Harriet Kathryne who is a twin to Ulysses Grant, Josephine Leavinia and Emma Jane.

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Union Civil War Home Guard: Captain of Forman's Independent Company, Reserve Corps, Missouri Home Guard.

He was Captain of his own Home Guard.

Home Guards were raised in June-December 1861. The men were to be armed by the federal government, but would only be paid if called to active duty. Several thousand were called to three months active duty during Union General Nathaniel Lyon's advance on Springfield, Missouri in late summer 1861. At its height, the Home Guard organization consisted overall of approximately 19,000 men who served in approximately 240 companies during the war. Men who served in the Home Guards were eligible to receive postwar federal military pensions and benefits if the units they served in had been recognized by the Hawkins Taylor Commission as having been "called out or accepted by proper authority." The Commission bestowed that distinction upon six regiments, 22 battalions, and 49 independent companies of Home Guards. Men who had served in the Home Guards in units recognized by the Hawkins Taylor Commission were authorized in 1886 by the Secretary of War to receive certificates of honorable discharge from military service from the War Department.

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From 23 July 1861 to 23 Aug 1861 in Shelbina, Shelby Co., Missouri, Capt. Joseph Hawkins Forman appeared on a record of the allowances of the Hawkins Taylor Commission. This record indicates that the Hawkins Taylor Commission deemed Capt. J. H. Forman and his independent company eligible for pay so they must have been called out for active duty at some point.

Capt. Joseph H. Forman was paid for one month of service on 22 June 1864.

Source Citation: The National Archives.

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