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Job Archer

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Job Archer

Birth
Henrietta, Jackson County, Michigan, USA
Death
unknown
Burial
Arlington, Brookings County, South Dakota, USA
Plot
Block 2, Lot 9, Grave 3
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Civil War veteran, served from July 12, 1863 to July 25, 1865 in the First Ohio Heavy Artillery. No official DOB or DOD available, but he does appear in the 1890 Census of Kingsbury County's Surviving Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
He was born to Job Archer and Phoebe (Hartness) Archer in Henrietta, Michigan in September of 1843, and grew up in Henrietta before joining the Army at 19. After his military service, he appears to have returned home to Henrietta, working as a farm laborer, then worked in 1880 with his brother-in-law, Gilbert Welch, still in Henrietta. He may have married after the war, but the data is debatable.
Job Archer was pensioned in 1881, and sometime in the 1880s moved to the western frontier, landing in or near Arlington. There is one record of him in The Arlington Sun; in a list of businesses in January of 1891, Job Archer is noted as the proprietor of a "wagon shop."
There is no record of his date of death, but he reappears in the 1900 U.S. Census as a 56-year-old "day laborer," living in a boardinghouse in Arlington—and does not appear in the city's 1910 Census—so it appears he may have died in the early 1900's.
Civil War veteran, served from July 12, 1863 to July 25, 1865 in the First Ohio Heavy Artillery. No official DOB or DOD available, but he does appear in the 1890 Census of Kingsbury County's Surviving Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
He was born to Job Archer and Phoebe (Hartness) Archer in Henrietta, Michigan in September of 1843, and grew up in Henrietta before joining the Army at 19. After his military service, he appears to have returned home to Henrietta, working as a farm laborer, then worked in 1880 with his brother-in-law, Gilbert Welch, still in Henrietta. He may have married after the war, but the data is debatable.
Job Archer was pensioned in 1881, and sometime in the 1880s moved to the western frontier, landing in or near Arlington. There is one record of him in The Arlington Sun; in a list of businesses in January of 1891, Job Archer is noted as the proprietor of a "wagon shop."
There is no record of his date of death, but he reappears in the 1900 U.S. Census as a 56-year-old "day laborer," living in a boardinghouse in Arlington—and does not appear in the city's 1910 Census—so it appears he may have died in the early 1900's.

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Cemetery records show Stephen Hodges, another Civil War veteran, purchased the plot, but no date was recorded for the purchase.

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