Soldier Information
Name: Alonzo Truman
Alias: Miner
Place of Birth: Meade County KY Year of Birth: 1834
Occupation: Laborer
Eyes: Dark Hair: Dark Complexion: Dark
Height in Feet: 5 Inches: 6
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Enlistment Information
Enlistment Date: October 6, 1864
Enlistment Place: Louisville
Enlistment State: KY
Compiled Military Service Record
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Congressional District: 4
Company: I Regiment(s): 123rd USCI
Mustered Where: Louisville, KY
Mustered Out Date: October 16, 1865
Rank at Muster Out: Private
Notes:
The Compiled Military Service Records for Alonzo Truman state he enlisted on October 6, 1864, at Louisville, Kentucky, and he mustered in on the same date. Alonzo was 30 years old, height of 5′ 6″, with dark eyes, dark hair, and a dark complexion. Alonzo served in the 123rd USCI, Company I. He was absent from the muster rolls from November 14, 1864, through September 1865 due to being sick and in the hospital at the USA General Floating Hospital Ohio in New Albany, Indiana. His hospital muster page for July-August 1865 in Jefferson General Hospital in Indiana listed his surname as Trummond. His diagnosis was chronic bronchitis. He mustered out on October 16, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky. Enlistment papers are included in the CMSR, and they name Morman Stith as Alonzo’s enslaver. A hospital record is included in the CMSR, which names Alonzo’s wife as Jane Truman, whose address is “Bannonburg, Kentucky.” [This may be Brandenburg.] There is a small note on page 17 of CMSR that states “Name appears also as Alonzo Miner.” [No records have been found under the surname Miner.]
Soldier Death Information
Died in war? No
Military Death Date:
Military Death Location:
Military Cause of Death:
Death Date: January 1, 1886
Cause of Death: unknown
Soldier Pension Information
No pension card found
Widow Pension Information
Widow Pension Card: Pension Card
Widow Application Date: November 3, 1886
Application No.: 346627 Certificate No.: 251069
No other family pension card found
Pension File Information
Pension File:
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Pension Notes:
A pension card was retrieved for Alonzo Truman’s wife, Jane Truman, who applied for a Widow’s Pension on Nov. 3, 1886, application no. 346627, certificate no. 251069. The application was filed from Indiana. This pension card provides supporting evidence for the name of Alonzo Truman’s wife: Jane Truman. In addition, the date of the pension application being November 3, 1886, suggests Alonzo died shortly before this date. The full pension file has not been retrieved.
Freedman’s Bank/Freedmen’s Bureau Information
No Freedman’s Bank information found
No Freedmen’s Bureau Documents found
Family Information
Mother First Name: Mother Maiden Name:
Father First Name: Father Last Name:
Siblings:
Wife #1 First Name: Jane Maiden Name: Brown
Wife #2 First Name: Maiden Name:
Wife #3 First Name: Maiden Name:
Children: Ambrose Truman 1859
Margaret “Maggie” Truman Skillman 1862
Charles Truman 1864
Mollie Truman Jackson House 1871
Henry Louis Truman 1875
Lottie 1882 Truman Stith
Family Notes:
Alonzo Truman was married to Jane Brown, and they had six children:
Ambrose – died in 1895
Maggie – married a Skillman/Stillman, had daughter Ella Stillman Rickman Russell
Charles – died in 1898
Mollie – married a Jackson, then House, lived in St. Louis, Missouri
Henry Louis – single, inherited the house from his mother at 428 Ayer Street, New Albany
Lottie – married Frank Stith, died 1962
Widow Jane Truman’s will has been retrieved: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eRzGLvenBUCeZs-ki6xEtmC9Dg4Po9by/view?usp=drive_link
Family Tree:
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1870 Census
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1870 Profession: Laborer
1870 Live with/near former enslaver? No
1870 Real Estate Value: 1870 Personal Estate Value:
1870 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1870 Census Notes:
Alonzo Truman (39) is living in New Albany, Indiana, with wife Jane (36), son Ambers [Ambrose] (11), daughter Margaret (8), and son Charles (6). All family members are described as mulatto.
1880 Census
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1880 Profession: Works in the nail works
1880 Live with/near former enslaver? No
1880 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1880 Census Notes:
Lonzo Truman (51) is living in New Albany, Indiana, with wife Jane (40), daughter Maggie (17), son Charles (16), daughter Mollie (9), and son Henry Louis (5).
1890 Census
1890 Census information not found
1900 Census
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1900 Profession: None
1900 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1900 Own/Rent: Own 1900 Home Free/Mortgage: Mortgage 1900 Farm/House: House
1900 Census Notes:
Alonzo’s widow, Jane Truman (70), is living in New Albany, IN, with son Louis (25), daughter Lottie (18), niece Maggie Smith (20), granddaughter Ella Truman (19), and granddaughter Flora Hood (19). Flora is listed as married, and the number of years married is zero. Her husband is not living in this household. Jane is listed as a widow, and she stated she has had 8 children born to her, with 4 living at the time of this census. Jane is the owner of the house at 428 Ayres Street, with a mortgage.
1910 Census
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1910 Profession: Porter, dry goods
1910 Ability to Read? Can read Ability to Write? Can write
1910 Own/Rent: Own 1910 Home Free/Mortgage: Free 1910 Farm/House: House
1910 Census Notes:
The son of Alonzo and Jane Truman, Louis Truman, is 29 years old, single, living at the family home at 428 Ayer Street, New Albany, IN. He owns the home, mortgage-free. He has two nieces living with him, Ella Rickman, who is a widow, age 26, and Ruthie Rickman, age 5, her daughter.
1920 Census
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1920 Profession: Janitor
1920 Ability to Read? Can read Ability to Write? Can write
1920 Own/Rent: Own 1920 Home Free/Mortgage: Free 1920 Farm/House: House
1920 Census Notes:
Son of Alonzo and Jane Truman, Louis Truman, is listed as 41 years old, single, living at the home devised to him in his mother’s will, at 428 Ayer Street. He is listed as “uncle” to the head of household, who is Ella Russel. She owns the home free of mortgage. Ella’s husband, William, is 32, and her daughter, Ruth R., is 15. [Ownership of the same home has apparently transferred from Louis to Ella in the 10 years since the last census.]
Enslaver Information
Name: Morman/Moorman Stith Location:
Previous Enslaver:
Enslaver Notes:
An enslaver’s name was listed on one of the Descriptive Lists ledger book as Stith Morman; There is a name written on Alonzo Truman’s enlistment papers: Morman Stith. There is a Charles Moorman Stith (1834–1886) of Hardin County, Ky., and there is an Achilles Moorman Stith, also of Hardin County. Alonzo’s birthplace is noted as Meade County, Ky., which is adjacent to Hardin, so one of these two men may have been Alonzo’s enslaver.
1850 Enslaver Census
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1860 Enslaver Census
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1870 Enslaver Census
1870 Census information not found
1880 Enslaver Census
1880 Census information not found
Compensation Information
Compensation Application not found