Eldest son of Wiliam Atkins Gheen and Esther Ann Peirce
Married Nancy Jarvis, 25 Jun 1853, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin
Children - Ann Alice Gheen, William A. Gheen, Stephen Harris Gheen
On the 1840 Census William Gheen had a male child by the name of Thomas listed in his household.
Thomas A. Gheen is found in the 1850 Census in the Nauvoo home of his sister and brother-in-law, Margaret and James Downing, who is the daughter of William Atkins Gheen.
Through censuses, military records, and Civil War it is determined that in 1846, Thomas Atkins Gheen had chosen to remain behind in Nauvoo, Illinois with his sister's family, when their widowed mother and brothers and sisters followed Brigham Young west.
He eventually became a follower of James Strang in Wisconsin, where he married and started his family. When the Strangites disbanded in the late 1850's, Thomas was left on his own, and moved to Michigan.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted with the Michigan infantry. He and many of his regiment were captured following a battle in Georgia in 1864, and he was imprisoned in the dreaded Andersonville Confederate Military Prison. While Thomas was alive, his family was informed by the War Department that he had died in prison.
Following the end of hostilities, Thomas and thousands of other soldiers began their trip home. He never made it. He was among the 1200 men lost on the Steamboat Sultana, whose engines exploded on the Mississippi near Memphis, and sank.
Married Nancy Jarvis, 25 Jun 1853, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin
Children - Ann Alice Gheen, William A. Gheen, Stephen Harris Gheen
On the 1840 Census William Gheen had a male child by the name of Thomas listed in his household.
Thomas A. Gheen is found in the 1850 Census in the Nauvoo home of his sister and brother-in-law, Margaret and James Downing, who is the daughter of William Atkins Gheen.
Through censuses, military records, and Civil War it is determined that in 1846, Thomas Atkins Gheen had chosen to remain behind in Nauvoo, Illinois with his sister's family, when their widowed mother and brothers and sisters followed Brigham Young west.
He eventually became a follower of James Strang in Wisconsin, where he married and started his family. When the Strangites disbanded in the late 1850's, Thomas was left on his own, and moved to Michigan.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted with the Michigan infantry. He and many of his regiment were captured following a battle in Georgia in 1864, and he was imprisoned in the dreaded Andersonville Confederate Military Prison. While Thomas was alive, his family was informed by the War Department that he had died in prison.
Following the end of hostilities, Thomas and thousands of other soldiers began their trip home. He never made it. He was among the 1200 men lost on the Steamboat Sultana, whose engines exploded on the Mississippi near Memphis, and sank.
Eldest son of Wiliam Atkins Gheen and Esther Ann Peirce
Married Nancy Jarvis, 25 Jun 1853, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin
Children - Ann Alice Gheen, William A. Gheen, Stephen Harris Gheen
On the 1840 Census William Gheen had a male child by the name of Thomas listed in his household.
Thomas A. Gheen is found in the 1850 Census in the Nauvoo home of his sister and brother-in-law, Margaret and James Downing, who is the daughter of William Atkins Gheen.
Through censuses, military records, and Civil War it is determined that in 1846, Thomas Atkins Gheen had chosen to remain behind in Nauvoo, Illinois with his sister's family, when their widowed mother and brothers and sisters followed Brigham Young west.
He eventually became a follower of James Strang in Wisconsin, where he married and started his family. When the Strangites disbanded in the late 1850's, Thomas was left on his own, and moved to Michigan.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted with the Michigan infantry. He and many of his regiment were captured following a battle in Georgia in 1864, and he was imprisoned in the dreaded Andersonville Confederate Military Prison. While Thomas was alive, his family was informed by the War Department that he had died in prison.
Following the end of hostilities, Thomas and thousands of other soldiers began their trip home. He never made it. He was among the 1200 men lost on the Steamboat Sultana, whose engines exploded on the Mississippi near Memphis, and sank.
Married Nancy Jarvis, 25 Jun 1853, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin
Children - Ann Alice Gheen, William A. Gheen, Stephen Harris Gheen
On the 1840 Census William Gheen had a male child by the name of Thomas listed in his household.
Thomas A. Gheen is found in the 1850 Census in the Nauvoo home of his sister and brother-in-law, Margaret and James Downing, who is the daughter of William Atkins Gheen.
Through censuses, military records, and Civil War it is determined that in 1846, Thomas Atkins Gheen had chosen to remain behind in Nauvoo, Illinois with his sister's family, when their widowed mother and brothers and sisters followed Brigham Young west.
He eventually became a follower of James Strang in Wisconsin, where he married and started his family. When the Strangites disbanded in the late 1850's, Thomas was left on his own, and moved to Michigan.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted with the Michigan infantry. He and many of his regiment were captured following a battle in Georgia in 1864, and he was imprisoned in the dreaded Andersonville Confederate Military Prison. While Thomas was alive, his family was informed by the War Department that he had died in prison.
Following the end of hostilities, Thomas and thousands of other soldiers began their trip home. He never made it. He was among the 1200 men lost on the Steamboat Sultana, whose engines exploded on the Mississippi near Memphis, and sank.
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