John Lynch was born about 1815 in Co. Cork, Ireland. Currently, this is the only known, documented information regarding his place of birth. However, in recent years, through DNA analysis of direct descendants of John Lynch, cross comparing matches and studying what trees are available from those matches, there is good evidence to suggest, John Lynch was from the Ballyvourney/Macroom area of Co. Cork. Research is still on going in hopes of validating this information with actual documentation.
The actual time of John's departure from Ireland is another fact that is unknown. I believe it was sometime around 1835, give or take up to 5 years from this time. His port of arrival and whether he actually came with any family is also unknown, though there are some compelling ship manifests that seem good for answering these questions. Unfortunately, there is nothing definitive to tie this John Lynch with any of those records, other than name, time period, age and location and the reality is, there were many John Lynches born about 1815 in Co. Cork, Ireland that came to the United States around the same time period and our job as genealogists, is to make sure we are documenting our family and not following red herrings that lead us to study another family other than our own, wasting not only our time but giving false information and misleading others as well. As with the DNA evidence, research is ongoing to try and find documentation that would directly tie this John Lynch to a particular ship manifest.
One other note regarding misinformation. There are some who have misattributed the middle name, Henry to this John Lynch. To date, there is no known piece of evidence that links the letter H, let alone the name Henry spelled out, as a middle name. This has been copied in various trees and no one has been able to produce definitive evidence regarding this middle name. In all documents pertaining to this John Lynch, there is no suggestion of what his middle name was or even if he had one. If you are reading this and you disagree because you believe you have evidence (beyond citing someone's tree), I would be greatly interested in evaluating your evidence. That said, the grandson of John Lynch, named John Henry Lynch, I strongly suspect was named after an uncle on his mother's side who had the name, John Henry Stahl.
John's currently known and verified paper trail for me starts in 1842 on June 7th, when he marries, Sally Ann Lanterman, daughter of Daniel and Sally Luman Lanterman. John and Sally went on to have, 6 children; Daniel Adams, Olive Dora, Clay Hardin, Green Hamilton, Levi Clinton and Mary. Four of these children, Daniel, Olive, Clay and Mary, would survive into adulthood, however, the twins, Green and Levi would not survive childhood.
After the birth of their last child, Mary in December of 1851, Sally Ann passed away in January 1852, less than a month after having given birth. I have no information regarding whatever happened to her, whether illness, complications from childbirth or an accident. On May 25, 1853, John married, Eudoxia Ann Scott Cork, daughter of James and Catherine Scott and widow of Henry Cork. John and Eudoxia would go on to have 4 children, all girls; Sally Ann, Matilda, Eliza and Jane. Three of the girls, Sally Ann, Matilda and Jane would survive to adulthood, however, Eliza would not.
When the Civil War started in 1861, John Lynch joined Co. A, 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (aka Yates Phalanx) . When he joined, records show that he was listed as having residence in St. Louis, Missouri at the time of his enlistment. There is some misinformation in John's service record and I am wondering if this is part of that since it is well documented that John lived in Edwardsville, Illinois. In John's service record there is one document that gives a description of him, stating that he has black hair and black eyes and that his complexion is, dark. However, in the Company Descriptive Book held at the Illinois State Archives, his description is listed as black hair, gray eyes and his complexion is fair. Regardless, there is plenty of documentation that he is the John Lynch from Co. A, 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and I do not believe there will ever be a satisfactory explanation for the discrepancies in the information since there was only one John Lynch in this unit.
In October of 1864, John was discharged outside of Richmond, Virginia at the expiration of the terms of his 3 year service. At the time of his discharge, according to documentation in his pension packet, he was in ill health and according to his daughter, Jane in a letter, the company doctor, Charles M. Clark, M.D., John was advised to stay in the south in a warmer climate. Unfortunately, John would never make it home. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana on 28 Mar 1866 and he was buried in Locust Grove Cemetery.
Locust Grove Cemetery was closed in 1879. In 1905, it was plowed under, no remains were removed, for the Thomy Lafon School. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit, Thomy Lafon School was damaged. An application was sent to FEMA in the hopes of getting Federal assistance for the repairs. However, in doing their research, FEMA found that the school was built on top of a cemetery and local laws now prohibited the building over cemetery grounds. FEMA denied the funding for repairs and it was decided that Thomy Lafon School would be demolished and in its place something to remember the cemetery that was once there. During demolition, remains have been found. The stone shown for John Lynch is not at the location of Locust Grove Cemetery. It is a Memorial Stone placed at Woodlawn Cemetery in Edwardsville, Madison Co., Illinois. The VA granted a Memorial Stone since it was shown that there is no hope of recovery for the remains of John Lynch.
Eudoxia filed for a pension however, because she could not definitively prove that John's death was a result of his service, the pension was denied. In the pension packet, there is no known cause of death given for John Lynch. The company doctor, Charles Clark, did fill out an affidavit in effect saying that John was in good health when he entered service but that his health had declined during his service. Although there is no official documentation, one family line has information in the way of a letter between Daniel Lynch's sons, Samuel and John talking about family history that suggests the cause of death was smallpox. There was an affidavit of death filled out at the time of John's death by William Devlin but he did not record the cause of death, so it is difficult to know for sure if smallpox was the cause or just a guess in the face of no other evidence.
Kelly Collins
Direct descendant, GGG-Grand-daughter, 16 Feb 2020.
.
Cenotaph here
The actual time of John's departure from Ireland is another fact that is unknown. I believe it was sometime around 1835, give or take up to 5 years from this time. His port of arrival and whether he actually came with any family is also unknown, though there are some compelling ship manifests that seem good for answering these questions. Unfortunately, there is nothing definitive to tie this John Lynch with any of those records, other than name, time period, age and location and the reality is, there were many John Lynches born about 1815 in Co. Cork, Ireland that came to the United States around the same time period and our job as genealogists, is to make sure we are documenting our family and not following red herrings that lead us to study another family other than our own, wasting not only our time but giving false information and misleading others as well. As with the DNA evidence, research is ongoing to try and find documentation that would directly tie this John Lynch to a particular ship manifest.
One other note regarding misinformation. There are some who have misattributed the middle name, Henry to this John Lynch. To date, there is no known piece of evidence that links the letter H, let alone the name Henry spelled out, as a middle name. This has been copied in various trees and no one has been able to produce definitive evidence regarding this middle name. In all documents pertaining to this John Lynch, there is no suggestion of what his middle name was or even if he had one. If you are reading this and you disagree because you believe you have evidence (beyond citing someone's tree), I would be greatly interested in evaluating your evidence. That said, the grandson of John Lynch, named John Henry Lynch, I strongly suspect was named after an uncle on his mother's side who had the name, John Henry Stahl.
John's currently known and verified paper trail for me starts in 1842 on June 7th, when he marries, Sally Ann Lanterman, daughter of Daniel and Sally Luman Lanterman. John and Sally went on to have, 6 children; Daniel Adams, Olive Dora, Clay Hardin, Green Hamilton, Levi Clinton and Mary. Four of these children, Daniel, Olive, Clay and Mary, would survive into adulthood, however, the twins, Green and Levi would not survive childhood.
After the birth of their last child, Mary in December of 1851, Sally Ann passed away in January 1852, less than a month after having given birth. I have no information regarding whatever happened to her, whether illness, complications from childbirth or an accident. On May 25, 1853, John married, Eudoxia Ann Scott Cork, daughter of James and Catherine Scott and widow of Henry Cork. John and Eudoxia would go on to have 4 children, all girls; Sally Ann, Matilda, Eliza and Jane. Three of the girls, Sally Ann, Matilda and Jane would survive to adulthood, however, Eliza would not.
When the Civil War started in 1861, John Lynch joined Co. A, 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (aka Yates Phalanx) . When he joined, records show that he was listed as having residence in St. Louis, Missouri at the time of his enlistment. There is some misinformation in John's service record and I am wondering if this is part of that since it is well documented that John lived in Edwardsville, Illinois. In John's service record there is one document that gives a description of him, stating that he has black hair and black eyes and that his complexion is, dark. However, in the Company Descriptive Book held at the Illinois State Archives, his description is listed as black hair, gray eyes and his complexion is fair. Regardless, there is plenty of documentation that he is the John Lynch from Co. A, 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and I do not believe there will ever be a satisfactory explanation for the discrepancies in the information since there was only one John Lynch in this unit.
In October of 1864, John was discharged outside of Richmond, Virginia at the expiration of the terms of his 3 year service. At the time of his discharge, according to documentation in his pension packet, he was in ill health and according to his daughter, Jane in a letter, the company doctor, Charles M. Clark, M.D., John was advised to stay in the south in a warmer climate. Unfortunately, John would never make it home. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana on 28 Mar 1866 and he was buried in Locust Grove Cemetery.
Locust Grove Cemetery was closed in 1879. In 1905, it was plowed under, no remains were removed, for the Thomy Lafon School. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit, Thomy Lafon School was damaged. An application was sent to FEMA in the hopes of getting Federal assistance for the repairs. However, in doing their research, FEMA found that the school was built on top of a cemetery and local laws now prohibited the building over cemetery grounds. FEMA denied the funding for repairs and it was decided that Thomy Lafon School would be demolished and in its place something to remember the cemetery that was once there. During demolition, remains have been found. The stone shown for John Lynch is not at the location of Locust Grove Cemetery. It is a Memorial Stone placed at Woodlawn Cemetery in Edwardsville, Madison Co., Illinois. The VA granted a Memorial Stone since it was shown that there is no hope of recovery for the remains of John Lynch.
Eudoxia filed for a pension however, because she could not definitively prove that John's death was a result of his service, the pension was denied. In the pension packet, there is no known cause of death given for John Lynch. The company doctor, Charles Clark, did fill out an affidavit in effect saying that John was in good health when he entered service but that his health had declined during his service. Although there is no official documentation, one family line has information in the way of a letter between Daniel Lynch's sons, Samuel and John talking about family history that suggests the cause of death was smallpox. There was an affidavit of death filled out at the time of John's death by William Devlin but he did not record the cause of death, so it is difficult to know for sure if smallpox was the cause or just a guess in the face of no other evidence.
Kelly Collins
Direct descendant, GGG-Grand-daughter, 16 Feb 2020.
.
Cenotaph here
John Lynch was born about 1815 in Co. Cork, Ireland. Currently, this is the only known, documented information regarding his place of birth. However, in recent years, through DNA analysis of direct descendants of John Lynch, cross comparing matches and studying what trees are available from those matches, there is good evidence to suggest, John Lynch was from the Ballyvourney/Macroom area of Co. Cork. Research is still on going in hopes of validating this information with actual documentation.
The actual time of John's departure from Ireland is another fact that is unknown. I believe it was sometime around 1835, give or take up to 5 years from this time. His port of arrival and whether he actually came with any family is also unknown, though there are some compelling ship manifests that seem good for answering these questions. Unfortunately, there is nothing definitive to tie this John Lynch with any of those records, other than name, time period, age and location and the reality is, there were many John Lynches born about 1815 in Co. Cork, Ireland that came to the United States around the same time period and our job as genealogists, is to make sure we are documenting our family and not following red herrings that lead us to study another family other than our own, wasting not only our time but giving false information and misleading others as well. As with the DNA evidence, research is ongoing to try and find documentation that would directly tie this John Lynch to a particular ship manifest.
One other note regarding misinformation. There are some who have misattributed the middle name, Henry to this John Lynch. To date, there is no known piece of evidence that links the letter H, let alone the name Henry spelled out, as a middle name. This has been copied in various trees and no one has been able to produce definitive evidence regarding this middle name. In all documents pertaining to this John Lynch, there is no suggestion of what his middle name was or even if he had one. If you are reading this and you disagree because you believe you have evidence (beyond citing someone's tree), I would be greatly interested in evaluating your evidence. That said, the grandson of John Lynch, named John Henry Lynch, I strongly suspect was named after an uncle on his mother's side who had the name, John Henry Stahl.
John's currently known and verified paper trail for me starts in 1842 on June 7th, when he marries, Sally Ann Lanterman, daughter of Daniel and Sally Luman Lanterman. John and Sally went on to have, 6 children; Daniel Adams, Olive Dora, Clay Hardin, Green Hamilton, Levi Clinton and Mary. Four of these children, Daniel, Olive, Clay and Mary, would survive into adulthood, however, the twins, Green and Levi would not survive childhood.
After the birth of their last child, Mary in December of 1851, Sally Ann passed away in January 1852, less than a month after having given birth. I have no information regarding whatever happened to her, whether illness, complications from childbirth or an accident. On May 25, 1853, John married, Eudoxia Ann Scott Cork, daughter of James and Catherine Scott and widow of Henry Cork. John and Eudoxia would go on to have 4 children, all girls; Sally Ann, Matilda, Eliza and Jane. Three of the girls, Sally Ann, Matilda and Jane would survive to adulthood, however, Eliza would not.
When the Civil War started in 1861, John Lynch joined Co. A, 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (aka Yates Phalanx) . When he joined, records show that he was listed as having residence in St. Louis, Missouri at the time of his enlistment. There is some misinformation in John's service record and I am wondering if this is part of that since it is well documented that John lived in Edwardsville, Illinois. In John's service record there is one document that gives a description of him, stating that he has black hair and black eyes and that his complexion is, dark. However, in the Company Descriptive Book held at the Illinois State Archives, his description is listed as black hair, gray eyes and his complexion is fair. Regardless, there is plenty of documentation that he is the John Lynch from Co. A, 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and I do not believe there will ever be a satisfactory explanation for the discrepancies in the information since there was only one John Lynch in this unit.
In October of 1864, John was discharged outside of Richmond, Virginia at the expiration of the terms of his 3 year service. At the time of his discharge, according to documentation in his pension packet, he was in ill health and according to his daughter, Jane in a letter, the company doctor, Charles M. Clark, M.D., John was advised to stay in the south in a warmer climate. Unfortunately, John would never make it home. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana on 28 Mar 1866 and he was buried in Locust Grove Cemetery.
Locust Grove Cemetery was closed in 1879. In 1905, it was plowed under, no remains were removed, for the Thomy Lafon School. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit, Thomy Lafon School was damaged. An application was sent to FEMA in the hopes of getting Federal assistance for the repairs. However, in doing their research, FEMA found that the school was built on top of a cemetery and local laws now prohibited the building over cemetery grounds. FEMA denied the funding for repairs and it was decided that Thomy Lafon School would be demolished and in its place something to remember the cemetery that was once there. During demolition, remains have been found. The stone shown for John Lynch is not at the location of Locust Grove Cemetery. It is a Memorial Stone placed at Woodlawn Cemetery in Edwardsville, Madison Co., Illinois. The VA granted a Memorial Stone since it was shown that there is no hope of recovery for the remains of John Lynch.
Eudoxia filed for a pension however, because she could not definitively prove that John's death was a result of his service, the pension was denied. In the pension packet, there is no known cause of death given for John Lynch. The company doctor, Charles Clark, did fill out an affidavit in effect saying that John was in good health when he entered service but that his health had declined during his service. Although there is no official documentation, one family line has information in the way of a letter between Daniel Lynch's sons, Samuel and John talking about family history that suggests the cause of death was smallpox. There was an affidavit of death filled out at the time of John's death by William Devlin but he did not record the cause of death, so it is difficult to know for sure if smallpox was the cause or just a guess in the face of no other evidence.
Kelly Collins
Direct descendant, GGG-Grand-daughter, 16 Feb 2020.
.
Cenotaph here
The actual time of John's departure from Ireland is another fact that is unknown. I believe it was sometime around 1835, give or take up to 5 years from this time. His port of arrival and whether he actually came with any family is also unknown, though there are some compelling ship manifests that seem good for answering these questions. Unfortunately, there is nothing definitive to tie this John Lynch with any of those records, other than name, time period, age and location and the reality is, there were many John Lynches born about 1815 in Co. Cork, Ireland that came to the United States around the same time period and our job as genealogists, is to make sure we are documenting our family and not following red herrings that lead us to study another family other than our own, wasting not only our time but giving false information and misleading others as well. As with the DNA evidence, research is ongoing to try and find documentation that would directly tie this John Lynch to a particular ship manifest.
One other note regarding misinformation. There are some who have misattributed the middle name, Henry to this John Lynch. To date, there is no known piece of evidence that links the letter H, let alone the name Henry spelled out, as a middle name. This has been copied in various trees and no one has been able to produce definitive evidence regarding this middle name. In all documents pertaining to this John Lynch, there is no suggestion of what his middle name was or even if he had one. If you are reading this and you disagree because you believe you have evidence (beyond citing someone's tree), I would be greatly interested in evaluating your evidence. That said, the grandson of John Lynch, named John Henry Lynch, I strongly suspect was named after an uncle on his mother's side who had the name, John Henry Stahl.
John's currently known and verified paper trail for me starts in 1842 on June 7th, when he marries, Sally Ann Lanterman, daughter of Daniel and Sally Luman Lanterman. John and Sally went on to have, 6 children; Daniel Adams, Olive Dora, Clay Hardin, Green Hamilton, Levi Clinton and Mary. Four of these children, Daniel, Olive, Clay and Mary, would survive into adulthood, however, the twins, Green and Levi would not survive childhood.
After the birth of their last child, Mary in December of 1851, Sally Ann passed away in January 1852, less than a month after having given birth. I have no information regarding whatever happened to her, whether illness, complications from childbirth or an accident. On May 25, 1853, John married, Eudoxia Ann Scott Cork, daughter of James and Catherine Scott and widow of Henry Cork. John and Eudoxia would go on to have 4 children, all girls; Sally Ann, Matilda, Eliza and Jane. Three of the girls, Sally Ann, Matilda and Jane would survive to adulthood, however, Eliza would not.
When the Civil War started in 1861, John Lynch joined Co. A, 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (aka Yates Phalanx) . When he joined, records show that he was listed as having residence in St. Louis, Missouri at the time of his enlistment. There is some misinformation in John's service record and I am wondering if this is part of that since it is well documented that John lived in Edwardsville, Illinois. In John's service record there is one document that gives a description of him, stating that he has black hair and black eyes and that his complexion is, dark. However, in the Company Descriptive Book held at the Illinois State Archives, his description is listed as black hair, gray eyes and his complexion is fair. Regardless, there is plenty of documentation that he is the John Lynch from Co. A, 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and I do not believe there will ever be a satisfactory explanation for the discrepancies in the information since there was only one John Lynch in this unit.
In October of 1864, John was discharged outside of Richmond, Virginia at the expiration of the terms of his 3 year service. At the time of his discharge, according to documentation in his pension packet, he was in ill health and according to his daughter, Jane in a letter, the company doctor, Charles M. Clark, M.D., John was advised to stay in the south in a warmer climate. Unfortunately, John would never make it home. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana on 28 Mar 1866 and he was buried in Locust Grove Cemetery.
Locust Grove Cemetery was closed in 1879. In 1905, it was plowed under, no remains were removed, for the Thomy Lafon School. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit, Thomy Lafon School was damaged. An application was sent to FEMA in the hopes of getting Federal assistance for the repairs. However, in doing their research, FEMA found that the school was built on top of a cemetery and local laws now prohibited the building over cemetery grounds. FEMA denied the funding for repairs and it was decided that Thomy Lafon School would be demolished and in its place something to remember the cemetery that was once there. During demolition, remains have been found. The stone shown for John Lynch is not at the location of Locust Grove Cemetery. It is a Memorial Stone placed at Woodlawn Cemetery in Edwardsville, Madison Co., Illinois. The VA granted a Memorial Stone since it was shown that there is no hope of recovery for the remains of John Lynch.
Eudoxia filed for a pension however, because she could not definitively prove that John's death was a result of his service, the pension was denied. In the pension packet, there is no known cause of death given for John Lynch. The company doctor, Charles Clark, did fill out an affidavit in effect saying that John was in good health when he entered service but that his health had declined during his service. Although there is no official documentation, one family line has information in the way of a letter between Daniel Lynch's sons, Samuel and John talking about family history that suggests the cause of death was smallpox. There was an affidavit of death filled out at the time of John's death by William Devlin but he did not record the cause of death, so it is difficult to know for sure if smallpox was the cause or just a guess in the face of no other evidence.
Kelly Collins
Direct descendant, GGG-Grand-daughter, 16 Feb 2020.
.
Cenotaph here
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