Tour 40-59

40. Edward Barton (Lot 114) was born on February 15, 1836 and participated in the Civil War in Co. E of the 22nd New York Cavalry. He died in a hospital at Washington on October 1, 1864. His wife, Susan, was born on November 1, 1840 and died on April 22, 1898.

41. George Ransier (Ransier) (Lot 115) was the son of Georg Friderich and Dorothea Schaat Ranzieur. Georg Friderich was born in Rhineland-Pfalz (Palatinate), Germany and was about 16 years old when he arrived in Pennsylvania in 1739 aboard the good ship "Loyal Judith." According to one source, he lived in Pennsylvania for a few years before moving to New Jersey for a short time. About 1760, he settled in New York City.

George Ransier was born on December 21, 1756 and was an active participant in the Revolutionary War. In early 1776 he enlisted with Capt. Herrick's Rangers. Afterward he served under Capt. Hill near West Point, as well as under Col. Dubois. In April, 1778 he was in Capt. Jonathan Titus's Co., Col. Henry B. Livingston's Regiment. After that, he enlisted at Fishkill and joined his regiment at Valley Forge. He was stationed at White Plains and Peekskill, New York, and was discharged near Fort Plain in the Mohawk Valley in February 1779. He then went into Capt. McKean's Co., Col. Van Rensselaer's Regiment as sergeant, and served in a fort on the Mohawk River in 1780 where he was a bateauman. Early in 1781 he went into Col. Marinus Willett's regiment and shared in the border warfare in the Mohawk region. His name also appears in the 1st Regiment of the Tryon County Militia under Col. Samuel Campbell.

George married Anna Barbara Barkey and settled at Frey's Bush, Montgomery County just outside the present city of Canajoharie. He was a cooper by trade, as was his father. In January 1809, Ransier bought an 88-acre farm near the intersection of Route 173 and Palmer Road in Manlius.

When Ransier applied for a pension in 1825, he thought his property worth about $18.87, besides some debts which he could not collect. He failed to get a pension. When he applied again in 1830, he won his case. In 1825 George and his wife lived with their son, George, Jr., to whom he had conveyed his farm for $25. "It cost him $1,250...and was probably encumbered. In 1830 he noted "I have never been in the possession of money enough to go in search of evidence of my services in the Revolution, and even now have to rely upon the charity of my friends to get evidence." According to Beauchamp, he then owned a quarter of an acre in Manlius that was not worth fencing.

George died in Manlius on April 14, 1844, aged 88. His stone is intact. His wife passed away on April 3, 1835, aged 79. Her epitaph is: O grave, where is thy victory/O death, where is thy sting.

42. George H. Ransier (Lot 115) was the son of George Ransier, Jr. and Catherine Bender. He was a farmer when he enlisted as a private in Co. C of Scotts 900 (later called the 11th New York Cavalry) on December 18, 1863. He drowned on his way back from New Orleans on December 10, 1864, aged 36. His Civil War stone is down with the back of the stone facing upward.

43. John B. McClenthen (Lot 115) of Manlius was a private in Co. F of the 24th Wisconsin Volunteers during the Civil War. He served from August 6, 1862 to June 22, 1865 and was discharged as a corporal. John B. married a sister of George H. Ransier, mentioned above, and was the son of Daniel Campbell and Annis Bostwick McClenthen. Daniel and his brother, Alvah, were early Manlius settlers who ran a tailor shop in the stone store at the west corner of Clinton and Seneca Streets. They were the sons of Thomas and Elizabeth Campbell McClenthen of Palmer, Massachusetts. Thomas died in 1813, aged 43, and is buried in lot 56. The McClenthen (Mac Clanathan) line comes from northern Ireland. Several of their ads placed in the "Manlius Repository" follow:

John B. was an employee of the New York Central and Hudson Railroad when a neck abscess broke. He died from hemorrhage at the Eagle Village home of his daughter, Mrs. Cross, on June 26, 1892, aged 52. His Civil War stone is broken and down.

44. George Ransier, Jr. (Lot 115) was the son of George Ransier, mentioned previously, and was born at Frey's Bush, Herkimer County. He married Catherine Bender of Madison County, who died on September 15, 1886. James M. Ransier, one of their nine children, was an active member of the Free & Accepted Masons in Manlius from 1864 to at least 1896. According to James M. Ransier's family sketch, the war record of the Ransier family included his grandfather, George, in the Revolutionary War and his father, George, Jr., in the War of 1812. Civil War soldiers included: Two brothers, Frederick G. and George H.; a brother-in-law, John B. McClenthen, and James M. Ransier's son, Julian M., mentioned later.

George Ransier, Jr. died on August 11, 1871, aged 82. His stone is toppled with the inscription side down, as are other stones of the Ransier family. Numerous stones in this row and the row to the west were among the some 100 tombstones that were vandalized on Thursday night, October 17, 1991. A further blow to the cemetery came on Labor Day, 1998, when numerous old trees were uprooted during a powerful electrical storm with winds exceeding 100 m.p.h.

45. Samuel M. Foster (Southeast Sector) was the son of James Foster and Elizabeth Bancroft, who moved to Manlius from Saratoga County with their numerous offspring around 1790. Samuel was a descendant of Christopher Foster who emigrated from England, and was located in Southampton, Long Island by 1653.

Samuel M.'s brother, Libbeus, was a charter member of the Free and Accepted Masons in 1802 and Samuel was raised in that organization on July 19, 1804. The Fosters ran a tavern farm at Eagle Village, and were among the earliest settlers in the Town of Manlius.

Samuel was in the War of 1812. In 1814 he served as Ensign in Capt Ralph R. Phelp's Co., 147th Regiment. He was a farmer who died of cholera at the race course near Fayetteville in September 1832. It is possible that his remains were re-interred from the old cemetery to this mass grave devoted to "Our Neighbors from Eagle Village." The Eagle Village cemetery referred to was located on property purchased by Libbeus Foster from his father in 1793. The graves of numerous members of the Foster family who died while still living in the area have never been discovered. If his remains are not here, the flag represents care for this Eagle Village patriot.

46. James H. Miles (Lot 309), a laborer, served in the Civil War as a private in Co. C of the 122nd New York Volunteers. Born in Onondaga County, he was 25 when he enlisted as a private on July 30, 1862. He was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, and later discharged on June 23, 1865. His father, Henry, moved to Manlius from Dutchess County in 1838. Deborah, his mother, came here from Washington County the same year.

The following portrayals of the Battle of Gettysburg on Thursday evening, July 2, 1863, and on July 3, 1863 were sketched by Edwin Forbes at the battle scene. "To be a spectator was nearly as dangerous as being a participant," Forbes once said.

James H. Miles died on April 9, 1903, aged 66. His stone is no longer at his grave site, but there is a 122nd Regiment monument at Gettysburg National Battlefield memorializing his Civil War efforts and those of his fellow soldiers. These pictures were taken in 1998 by local residents, Kim Mulvaney and Lloyd Spicer, participants in the restoration efforts of the Onondaga County Historical Association's Civil War Roundtable.

Organized
Onondaga Co.
New York
Mustered into Service
at Syracuse, N.Y.
August 28, 1862
Served continously
with the Sixth Corps
until the close
of the war

Assisted in
Repulsing the Attack
on the Morning of
July 3, 1863,
Loss
Killed 10;
Wounded 34

47. Frank Miller (Lot 308) was born in 1843. During the Civil War, he served from 1862 to June 15, 1865 in Co. F of the 149th Infantry Regiment. He lived at Fayetteville in 1890, and later moved to Manlius where he was a member of Bolster Post, G. A. R. He died at his home on Pleasant Street in Manlius Village on May 12, 1921, and was survived by his widow; his son, Floyd Fargo, and three daughters. His widow, Juliette, died January 10, 1926, aged 76. Both stones are intact.

48. Theodore Thurstin (Lot 305) was a private in the 22nd New York Cavalry in the Civil War. He mustered in as a private on January 10, 1864, and subsequently was promoted to corporal. He was born in Onondaga County, and was an operative in Fayetteville. By 1855 he was the father of two children by his wife, Amanda E. Theodore Thurstin died on March 11, 1914, aged 83. Amanda died on August 1, 1906, aged 76, according to burial records. The Thurstin monument is intact.

49. Henry J. Russ (Lot 304) of Manlius was in Co. C of the 122nd New York Volunteers in the Civil War. Henry enlisted on August 7, 1862 and was discharged June 23, 1865. He died on November 28, 1904, aged 74. There is no stone.

50. Henry Graham (Lot 304) was born in 1840 in Fabius. He enlisted as a private in the Civil War in Co. G, 2nd New York Cavalry on September 3, 1864.

After being outfitted at Camp Stoneman, near Washington, D. C., Graham and others of the 2nd Cavalry pushed on to the Shenandoah Valley near Winchester, Virginia, where they took part in the end of the Cedar Creek campaign, portrayed below in an October 19, 1864 sketch by James E. Taylor.

51. Isaac Worden (Lot 301) was 22 when he became a private in Co. C of the 122nd New York Volunteers. On January 23, 1864, he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corp He was the son of Lucy and Renssalaer Worden. Renssalaer was a partially blind farmer born in Onondaga County. Isaac Worden died on November 4, 1875, aged 35, and was survived by his father who died on April 24, 1878, aged 66. Isaac's Civil War stone is intact.

52. Frederick S. Monroe (Lot 97) moved from Vermont to Fayetteville in 1842. He was a carpenter, and was the father of five children by 1855. He was a private in Co I, 20th New York Cavalry. He died on August 17, 1877, aged 62. His Civil War stone is intact. His wife, Charlotte, also came from Vermont. She died on August 24, 1861, aged 39.

53. John Cole (Lot 96) served with the New York troops in the Revolutionary War. He was a pensioner, and lived with his family in 1840. He was then 75 years old. According to Beauchamp, he came from Saratoga and probably was in Capt. John Pratt's Co., Vermont, 1781, but several of this name served in New York and New England. In 1797 he moved from Galway to Pompey. He died on January 13, 1854, aged 89, according to burial records (born in 1761 on stone). His wife, Parmelia, died the following year on September 7 at age 89. Her stone is not there.

54. Jehiel (Jekiel) Foot (Lot 93), born in 1761, served two years and two months from April 1781 in military service in the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment. According to pension records, he had seven children. The value of his property when he applied for the pension was $71.10 and debts were $55.67. Among his property were a broken bake kettle, three salt barrels, a candle mold, a flail and a hundred sheaves of wheat.

Jehiel died on January 13, 1843, aged 82. His intact tombstone reads Jekiel, but most records show Jehiel.

55. Simeon White (Lot 90) was born in 1784. He served in Marsh's militia during the War of 1812. Simeon died in October 1816, aged 32. His stone is intact.

56. This unknown soldier of 1812 (Lot 90) was a member of the 23rd Regiment, U. S. Infantry. He died during the War of 1812 on October 1813, and is buried in a public lot of the Cemetery. There is no stone present.

57. Hendrick Hoos (Lot 88) passed away on March 21, 1825, aged 64. His grave was marked by the Sons of the American Revolution prior to 1950. There is no stone present.

58. E. Tryon Bates (Lot 83) was the son of Daniel and Ann Bates of Manlius. He was born in Massachusetts and his wife, Laura, was born in Oswego. The couple had three children by 1855.

This family man was a private in the 61st Regiment of the New York Volunteers from which he was discharged on account of physical disability. He re-enlisted in the 22nd New York Cavalry, mustered in January 10, 1864, and subsequently was promoted to Sergeant. He was taken prisoner on May 8, 1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness, portrayed below in sketches by J. Becker and Edwin Forbes, and was imprisoned at Andersonville.

E. Tryon was later paroled and died at home of disease contracted in prison on January 1, 1865, aged 35. His Civil War stone is intact.

59. Samuel Hopkins (Lot 59) passed away on February 26, 1828, aged 77. A marker was placed on his grave in 1950 by the Sons of the American Revolution. His stone is down and difficult to read. The epitaph is: He lived and died/in the faith of our/Lord Jesus Christ.

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