William Wilshire Agnew1

M, #1916, * 21 Feb 1822, + a 1896
FatherJoseph B. Agnew1 * 21 Dec 1788, + 11 Jul 1870
MotherMariam McKee1 * 2 Feb 1794, + 2 Jun 1869
     William Wilshire Agnew was born on 21 Feb 1822 in Butler County, Ohio.1 He married Eliza R. Harding on 1 Nov 1843 at Ripley County, Indiana.2,3 He died a 1896.1

Other information:

William Wilshire Agnew was first a carpenter, but later he became a farmer, first in Ripley County, Ind., and after his marriage in Jackson County, Iowa. After a few years he moved back to Ripley County, where he began the manufacture of barrels and working at saw milling. In 1854 he moved again to Iowa, but returned in 1858, locating in Jefferson Township, Pulaski County, where he engaged in farming in the summers and teaching school in the winters up to 1875. In 1851, he embarked in the grocery and provision trade in Winamac, and is one of the popular merchants of the place.3
William Wilshire Agnew and Eliza R. Harding had 4 children: Susan E., now Mrs. Jacob Sell; Florence A., Mrs. B. P. Hoefgen; N. L., who is one of Winamac's best attorneys, and William H..3
In the Civil War he served in Comp. B, 87th Reg. of the Indiana Infantry.
He enlisted on 26 Jul 1862, and shortly afterward was appointed First Sergeant. In August 1862, they started through Kentucky to check Gen. Bragg's advance, and meeting him fought the battle of Perry ville. Mr. Agnew was promoted First Lieutenant December 22, 186.7, and officiated in that capacity until the death of Capt. Brown, when he acted as Captain of his company until he received his commission as such dated November 4, 1963. Capt. Agnew participated in numerous skirmishes and pitched battles, prominent among the latter being the engagement of Chickamauga, where his company went in with thirty-three able-bodied men and came out with a loss of twenty-nine killed and wounded and two taken prisoners. He was in the battle of Mission Ridge, all through the Atlanta campaign, and the engagement at Nashville, where he was at the head of a detachment of the Fourteenth Corps. He was discharged 10 June 10 1865.3,4


He is listed in the following census:
1850 Fed. census (1 Jun): Household of William W. Agnew, Franklin Township, Ripley County. Household consists of William W., his wife Eliza R. and two daughters: Susan (4, b. IN), and Florence (3. b. IN); and probably Eliza's mother Eunice Harding (56, b. NY). His mother Miriam McKee is enumerated two houses down with her second husband Providence White.5
1860 Fed. census (1 Jun): Household of William Agnew, Jefferson Township, Pulaski County, Indiana. Household consists of William and his wife Eliza (35, b. Indiana), and their children Susan (14), Adaline (12), Nathan (10) and William (6), all b. in Indiana.6

Name variants: William W. Agnew.4 William Agnew (in the 1860 census.)6

Citations

  1. [S933] Judith "Judi" Elaine McKee Tree <http://www.geni.com/people/William-Agnew/6000000015907282162>,. Index and/or images online at https://www.geni.com/home. This is a large, user contributed database.
  2. [S540] Ripley, IN Marriages, online http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inripchs/marry-ab.html Index to marriages A-B.
  3. [S158] Weston A., M. McFarland, R. L. Harven, Ed A. Mossman, et al Goodspeed, Winamac, pg. 643-644. Online at http://archive.org/details/countiesofwhitep00faba
  4. [S389] NPS-Civil War, Film Number M540, roll 1., online: http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm
  5. [S108] Fed. Census: Household of William W. Agnew. "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (<https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-676S-CJ2> : 9 April 2016), Indiana > Ripley > Franklin > image 5 of 44; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  6. [S108] Fed. Census: 1860. Indiana, Pulaski County, Jefferson Township, page 1035. (NARA: M653, Roll 290, Page 1035). Household of William Agnew.