Soldier Information
Name: Cornelius Boarman
Alias:
Place of Birth: Hardin KY Year of Birth: 1841
Occupation: Farm hand
Eyes: Dark Hair: Dark Complexion: Dark
Height in Feet: 5 Inches: 5.5
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Enlistment Information
Enlistment Date: July 14, 1864
Enlistment Place: Louisville
Enlistment State: KY
Compiled Military Service Record
Document: View
Congressional District: 5
Company: F Regiment(s): 107th USCI
Mustered Where: Louisville, Kentucky
Mustered Out Date: November 17, 1866
Rank at Muster Out: Private
Notes:
Cornelius Boarman was mustered into Co. F 107th USCI at Louisville. He was described as 23 years old, “Yellow” in complexion, but on the following page he was described as “black,” and then later again as “Yellow”. His surname was sometimes misspelled as “Boman” and/or “Bowman.” In March and June 1865, he was in the hospital with at Wilmington, North Carolina. In May 1865, he was a patient in the US Army General Hospital in Smithville, North Carolina, and in June 1865, he was a patient in the Fort Monroe hospital in Virginia. The cause of his disability was a double hernia that he suffered while “lifting heavy timber while laboring on the corduroy road from Aiken’s Landing, Va., to the front…” (CMSR page 24). Aiken’s Landing was a plantation and boat landing on the James River and was also the site of prisoner exchanges during the Civil War. As a result of his hernia injury, it was determined that Cornelius Boarman was disabled by 50%. In his medical discharge records, it stated that, “The Soldier desires to be addressed at…Jeffersonville, [Indiana].” By December 1865, he was on duty as an attendant at the hospital. In January and February 1866, he was charged $15.34 for “transportation” that may have been related to the furlough he was granted in January 1866 to travel back to Kentucky. According to his “Certificate of Disability for Discharge,” Private Cornelius Boarman was mustered out of Co. F 107th USCI at Camp Distribution in Alexandria, Virginia. However, his CMSR mustering out page stated that he was mustered out with Co. F 107th USCI, on November 22, 1866 at Washington, DC, but that was incorrect. This discrepancy was noted by the US Army on page 27 of the CMSR. At the time of his discharge, Cornelius Boarman had drawn $22.55 from his clothing account, and he owed the US Government $6.00 for arms/equipment. He was owed $200 in Bounty payments for his service, and at the time he was mustered out, was described as “Free.”
Soldier Death Information
Died in war? No
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Military Cause of Death:
Death Date: March 16, 1882
Cause of Death: Unknown
Soldier Pension Information
Pension Card Link: Pension Card
Pension Application Date: January 12, 1867
Application No.: 121044 Certificate No.:
Alternate First Name: Alternate Last Name:
Widow Pension Information
Widow Pension Card: Pension Card
Widow Application Date: August 25, 1884
Application No.: 318852 Certificate No.: 974768
Other Family Pension Information
Pension Card Link: View
Application Date: December 16, 1891
Application No.: 536003 Certificate No.: 697439
Pension File Information
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Pension Notes:
In 1867, just months after his military career ended, Cornelius Boarman applied for and received an invalid pension, most likely based on his hernia injury he suffered while serving in Co. F 107th USCI. His widow, Indiana Mary Boarman and his children also received pension benefits. His children continued to receive pension benefits after their mother remarried and relocated the family to Washington, DC. On the pension card, Cornelius Boarman’s widow, Indiana Best, was named as the children’s “Guardian.”
Freedman’s Bank/Freedmen’s Bureau Information
Freedman’s Bank Link: View
Freedman’s Bank Notes:
Cornelius Boarman deposited $48.00 in the Freedman’s Bank on December 15, 1866, about one month after he was discharged from Co. F 107th USCI. He named Sylvester Boarman as his “Master,” and Hanson Boarman as his father. No mother, spouse, or children were named on the bank record. He gave his place of birth as Hardin County, Kentucky and his current residence as Jeffersonville, Indiana. A second undated record offered no additional information (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8755/images/DCM816_4-0029?pId=173048).
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Family Information
Mother First Name: Mother Maiden Name:
Father First Name: Hanson Father Last Name: Boarman
Siblings: George Boarman
Horace Wesley Boarman
Charles Boarman
William Anthony Boarman
Sophia Boarman
Wife #1 First Name: Indiana Mary Maiden Name:
Wife #2 First Name: Maiden Name:
Wife #3 First Name: Maiden Name:
Children: Francis H. Boarman 1869
Clara B. Boarman 1871
Julia A. Boarman 1873
Emmanuel H. Boarman 1875
Earnest H. Boarman 1878
Cornelia 1879 Boarman
Family Notes:
Cornelius Boarman was one of the five Boarman brothers who served in the 107th USCI. According to newspaper records, the Boarman brothers purchased a house and lot on the southwest corner of the intersection of Indiana Avenue and Sixth Street in Jeffersonville, Indiana, shortly after being mustered out of the 107th USCI in Washington, DC. The house remained in the family until around 1905 when it became the subject of a complicated estate settlement involving as many as 40 heirs. The house no longer stands and was one of many houses razed in Jeffersonville to make way for Interstate 65. After Cornelius Boarman died in 1882, and his widow, Indiana Mary Boarman, relocated the family to Washington, DC where she married Rev. L. D. Best. As result, she became the “Guardian” of her own children who were still eligible for their late father’s military pension.
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1870 Census
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Profession: Laborer
1870 Live with/near former enslaver? No
1870 Real Estate Value: 1000 1870 Personal Estate Value: 0
1870 Ability to Read? Can read Ability to Write? Can write
1870 Census Notes:
In 1870, Cornelius Boarman, age 25, laborer (“Kalsominer” aka whitewasher) owned his home valued at $1,000. Cornelius Boarman’s wife Indiana Mary Boarman, age 20, and their son, Francis H. Boarman, age one, were also present. Their home, located at the corner of Indiana Avenue and Sixth Street in Jeffersonville, later became the centerpiece of an estate settlement with dozens of heirs. Also in the household was Cornelius Boarman’s brother, George Boarman, age 35, laborer; sister, Sophia Boarman, age 19 (mistakenly identified in the Census as George Boarman’s wife); Clara Boarman, age 56 (assumed to be the Boarman siblings’ mother but none of them named her as their mother in records—only their father, Hanson Boarman, was mentioned); and brother Horace Wesley Boarman age 22, who worked on the nearby Ohio River as a steamboat hand.
1880 Census
1880 Census Link: View
1880 Profession: Kalsominer (aka whitewasher)
1880 Live with/near former enslaver? No
1880 Ability to Read? Can read Ability to Write? Can write
1880 Census Notes:
Cornelius Boarman age 38, mulatto, occupation, “Kalsominer” (whitewasher), lived at 242 Illinois Avenue in Jeffersonville, Indiana with his wife “India” (Indiana) Boarman, age 33, who kept house; and their six children, Francis Boarman age 11, at school; Clara Boarman, age 9, at school; Julia A. Boarman, 7, at school; Emmanuel H. Boarman, 5; Earnest Boarman, age 3; and Cornelia Boarman, age seven months. Note: This address no longer exists. Illinois Avenue was erased from the map of Jeffersonville with the construction and expansion of Interstate 65.
1890 Census
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1900 Census
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1910 Census
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1920 Census
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Enslaver Information
Name: Anna Ceclia Boarman Location: Stephensburg, Kentucky (Hardin County)
Previous Enslaver: Sylvester Boarman
Enslaver Notes:
The first enslaver of Cornelius Boarman was Sylvester Boarman (1801-1854), who was born in Maryland and died in Hardin County. His widow, Anna Cecelia Hagan Boarman (1807-1897), inherited part of her late husband’s estate which included real estate and enslaved persons, and among them, Cornelius Boarman and his siblings. This is why Cornelius Boarman’s Ledger entry identified his enslaver as the “Widow Boarman” at the time of his enlistment.
1850 Enslaver Census
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1850 Slave Schedule Link: View
1850 Number of Enslaved: 13
1860 Enslaver Census
1860 Census Link: View
1860 Real Estate Value: $7,500 1860 Personal Estate Value: $5,860
1860 Slave Schedule Link: View
1860 Number of Enslaved: 10
1870 Enslaver Census
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1880 Enslaver Census
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Compensation Information
Compensation Application not found