William F. Lohner enlisted as a Private in Company F of the Reorganized Fourth Michigan Infantry on September 13, 1864, for 3 years of service, at age 20. He was promoted to Corporal on August 18, 1865, and mustered out of service on May 26, 1866, at Houston, Texas.
In his pension application file, William claims that he was a boiler shop worker and that he had left Michigan, where he "knocked around" (following Railroad camps) and that he had never had a permanent address" in the several states that he lived in after his discharge from the military.
William came out west sometime in the late 1870s, where he made barrels for a living. He also ran a small cattle ranch near Huxley, Nevada. He started to collect a soldier's pension of $16.50 a month in 1907 at age 64. He died at age 72 on his small ranch in Huxley NV. He was Buried by the local Grand Army of the Republic post in the Fallon City Cemetery with full military honors.
The attached tin-type photo is shared courtesy of the Fallon Historcial Society. The photos of William's gravestone and the cemetery were taken in September of 2001.
Notice that the original military headstone was worn away by the weather and the cemetery's sprinkler system over the years since 1915, So the Local Daughters of the Confederacy & the Sons of Union Veterans got together and replaced the damaged headstones for a Confederate soldier as well as three Union soldiers, with bronze military markers.
Sources: " Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865, vol. 4", also known as the "Brown Book" and personal research from the soldier's Compiled Military Service Records and Pension Application file from the National Archives.
For further information on the Fourth Michigan Infantry, copy this link into your browser and press enter: www.4thmichigan.wordpress.com
In his pension application file, William claims that he was a boiler shop worker and that he had left Michigan, where he "knocked around" (following Railroad camps) and that he had never had a permanent address" in the several states that he lived in after his discharge from the military.
William came out west sometime in the late 1870s, where he made barrels for a living. He also ran a small cattle ranch near Huxley, Nevada. He started to collect a soldier's pension of $16.50 a month in 1907 at age 64. He died at age 72 on his small ranch in Huxley NV. He was Buried by the local Grand Army of the Republic post in the Fallon City Cemetery with full military honors.
The attached tin-type photo is shared courtesy of the Fallon Historcial Society. The photos of William's gravestone and the cemetery were taken in September of 2001.
Notice that the original military headstone was worn away by the weather and the cemetery's sprinkler system over the years since 1915, So the Local Daughters of the Confederacy & the Sons of Union Veterans got together and replaced the damaged headstones for a Confederate soldier as well as three Union soldiers, with bronze military markers.
Sources: " Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865, vol. 4", also known as the "Brown Book" and personal research from the soldier's Compiled Military Service Records and Pension Application file from the National Archives.
For further information on the Fourth Michigan Infantry, copy this link into your browser and press enter: www.4thmichigan.wordpress.com
William F. Lohner enlisted as a Private in Company F of the Reorganized Fourth Michigan Infantry on September 13, 1864, for 3 years of service, at age 20. He was promoted to Corporal on August 18, 1865, and mustered out of service on May 26, 1866, at Houston, Texas.
In his pension application file, William claims that he was a boiler shop worker and that he had left Michigan, where he "knocked around" (following Railroad camps) and that he had never had a permanent address" in the several states that he lived in after his discharge from the military.
William came out west sometime in the late 1870s, where he made barrels for a living. He also ran a small cattle ranch near Huxley, Nevada. He started to collect a soldier's pension of $16.50 a month in 1907 at age 64. He died at age 72 on his small ranch in Huxley NV. He was Buried by the local Grand Army of the Republic post in the Fallon City Cemetery with full military honors.
The attached tin-type photo is shared courtesy of the Fallon Historcial Society. The photos of William's gravestone and the cemetery were taken in September of 2001.
Notice that the original military headstone was worn away by the weather and the cemetery's sprinkler system over the years since 1915, So the Local Daughters of the Confederacy & the Sons of Union Veterans got together and replaced the damaged headstones for a Confederate soldier as well as three Union soldiers, with bronze military markers.
Sources: " Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865, vol. 4", also known as the "Brown Book" and personal research from the soldier's Compiled Military Service Records and Pension Application file from the National Archives.
For further information on the Fourth Michigan Infantry, copy this link into your browser and press enter: www.4thmichigan.wordpress.com
In his pension application file, William claims that he was a boiler shop worker and that he had left Michigan, where he "knocked around" (following Railroad camps) and that he had never had a permanent address" in the several states that he lived in after his discharge from the military.
William came out west sometime in the late 1870s, where he made barrels for a living. He also ran a small cattle ranch near Huxley, Nevada. He started to collect a soldier's pension of $16.50 a month in 1907 at age 64. He died at age 72 on his small ranch in Huxley NV. He was Buried by the local Grand Army of the Republic post in the Fallon City Cemetery with full military honors.
The attached tin-type photo is shared courtesy of the Fallon Historcial Society. The photos of William's gravestone and the cemetery were taken in September of 2001.
Notice that the original military headstone was worn away by the weather and the cemetery's sprinkler system over the years since 1915, So the Local Daughters of the Confederacy & the Sons of Union Veterans got together and replaced the damaged headstones for a Confederate soldier as well as three Union soldiers, with bronze military markers.
Sources: " Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865, vol. 4", also known as the "Brown Book" and personal research from the soldier's Compiled Military Service Records and Pension Application file from the National Archives.
For further information on the Fourth Michigan Infantry, copy this link into your browser and press enter: www.4thmichigan.wordpress.com
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