- Copied & Incorporated in Narrative. Fold3 Pension Card: invalid 1880 no certificate #, widow but no certificate #, minor with certificate #, no death date. GSW 23 Jun 1864 (no description), FAG unknown-1880. Corp Nicholas Thomas; 18. Enlisted on 8/21/1861 as a Private into “E” Co. 14th OH. He was Mustered Out on 7/11/1865. Promotions: Corpl 1/22/1865. No med card. Ancestry: Pension 23 Apr 1880 invalid. Pension record widow Margaret Hay 14 May 1884 OH. Another Pension card dated 7 Jan 1888 minor Joseph M. Johnson (guardian) Ohio. 1860 census a Nicholas Thomas is 16 living in Delaware Twp, Defiance County, born in OH, parents William, $3000/$950 farmer born in Germany (Belgium in 1880 census) and Mary 47 and 43 and 4 sisters. May have lived in MN 1870 with wife Margaret, died 1871. 1880 census back in Delaware Twp, sick with ulcerated liver, wife Maggie, 23, kids, Frank 10 Vincent J. 4, Elizabeth 2 living next to William and Mary 67 and 64. Likely FAG unknown-1880, non-CW stone, Defiance County, St Stephen’s Old Cemetery, 35. service records, Hayes Library–no hit.
