32 USCI - Black Men in Lincoln Blue

Summit County Sources

Akron Negro Directory, A. Kingsberry, 1940
Absalom Brooks, 5 USCI
John W. Brooks, 5 USCI
Frank Hailstock, 32 USCI
Owen Hailstock, 5 USCI
James Morrison, 27 USCI
James Robinson, 5 USCI

Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County, Samuel A. Lane, 1892
Absalom H. Brooks, 5 USCI
John W. Brooks, 5 USCI
Gustavus Edwinton, 5 USCI
Frank Hailstock, 32 USCI
Owen Hailstock, 5 USCI
Moses Jones, 27 USCI
James Morris, 27 USCI

The Military History of Ohio…, “Roll of Honor of Ohio’s Rank and File from Summit County in the War of the Rebellion,” 1886.

“Roll of Honor”
Samuel Bell, 30 USCI
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Summit County – Akron

1890 Census
Frank Hailstock, 32 USCI
Owen Hailstock, 5 USCI
Charles Jenkins, 13 USCHA
Sidney W. Johnson, 11 USCHA
James Morrison, 27 USCI
Peter Perry, 9 USCHA and 88 USCI
Henry Pickett, 27 USCI
William Strange, 17 USCI

Glendale Cemetery
Absolom H. Brooks, 5 USCI, died January 30, 1874
Gustavus Edwinton, 5 USCI, died May 20, 1866
Frank M. Hailstock, 32 USCI, died December 22, 1927
Sidney W. Johnson, 11 USCHA, died February 4, 1894
Moses M.A. Jones, 27 USCI, died April 22, 1880
Richard N. Jones, 27 USCI, died September 24, 1894
Henry Picket, 27 USCI
Robert Smith, 11 USCHA, died 1895

Mount Peace Cemetery
Alvin Smith, 27 USCI, died October 10, 1948

Alvin Smith, 27 USCI, last Civil War veteran in Summit County, Ohio

You can look at the names of the other Black Civil War soldiers, sailors, and veterans
from Summit County, or you can view the Ohio county pages to find African Americans
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Black Veterans at the Ohio Soldier’s and Sailors’ Home

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After the Civil War, African Americans who served in the United States Colored Troops and the United States Navy could apply to reside in both federal and state soldiers’ and sailors’ homes. Below is the list of Black veterans who were admitted to the Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home in Sandusky, Ohio, between November 1888 and August 1919.

Cottage I, from *Souvenir Book of Views: Ohio Soldiers’* *and Sailors’ Home, Sandusky, O.*

You can view the admission records on Family Search, “Ohio Soldier Home Records, 1888-1919.” This collection of images comes from 20 volumes that include the records of the first 10,000 residents of the Home.… Read more

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