Soldier Information
Name: Samuel Stowers
Alias:
Place of Birth: Pendleton KY Year of Birth: 1846
Occupation: Farmer
Eyes: Black Hair: Black Complexion: Black
Height in Feet: 5 Inches: 6
Enlistment Information
Enlistment Date: August 15, 1864
Enlistment Place: Covington
Enlistment State: KY
Compiled Military Service Record
Document: View
Congressional District: 6th
Company: D Regiment(s): 117th Regt USCI
Mustered Where: Covington, Ky
Mustered Out Date:
Rank at Muster Out:
Notes:
Two CMSR files were retrieved for the soldier. The second CMSR included enlistment and declaration of recruit documents.
Stowers takes ill almost immediately from the time of his enlistment and appears on the Hospital Muster Roll card for Seminary U.S.A. Gen’l Hosp at Covington, Ky from Sept/Oct 1864 to Mar 1865. On March 22, 1865 he is admitted/attached to L’Ouverture U.S.A. Gen’l Hosp at Alexandria, Va and remains hospitalized/on assignment until his death Sept. 29, 1865. Cause of death is listed as inflammation of the lungs. He does appear on Company muster roll cards through 1867 and evidently this caused some confusion when his records were compiled; he is on the Returns card as being absent d/t sickness for his entire enlistment when in fact he died in Sept. 1865. Stowers had not received his bounty payment and was last paid through June 1865. On the record of death and interment, nearest relative is noted to be Samuel Stowers of Covington, Ky. It would seem the family moved to Covington at the time of his enlistment and never returned to Pendleton County.
The Returns card is incorrect in that it indicates he was hospitalized from enlistment until the company mustered out in 1867. For some reason, he was marked Absent – sick in hospital long after his death in 1865.
Soldier Death Information
Died in war? Yes
Military Death Date: September 29, 1865
Military Death Location: Alexandria, Va.
Military Cause of Death: Inflammation of Lungs
Death Date: September 29, 1865
Cause of Death: Inflammation of Lungs
Death Certificate
Soldier Pension Information
No pension card found
No widow pension card found
Other Family Pension Information
Pension Card Link: View
Application Date: May 31, 1869
Application No.: 175792 Certificate No.: 143694
Pension File Information
Pension File: Pension File
Pensioners: Emma
Pensioner County: Kenton Pensioner State: KY
Number of Pages:40
Pension Notes:
Samuel Stowers died in Alexandria, Virginia, during September of 1865 from inflammation of the lungs. Soldier’s mother, Emma Stowers, lived in Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky.
Freedman’s Bank/Freedmen’s Bureau Information
No Freedman’s Bank information found
No Freedmen’s Bureau Documents found
Family Information
Mother First Name: Emma (or Emily) Mother Maiden Name:
Father First Name: Samuel Father Last Name: Stowers
Siblings: Moses Stowers
Wife #1 First Name: Maiden Name:
Wife #2 First Name: Maiden Name:
Wife #3 First Name: Maiden Name:
Children:
Family Notes:
The Stowers family were free persons of color and are found in the 1850 census for Pendleton Co. There may have been other children besides Samuel, Jr. and Moses but they are not positively identified in any of the census records.
Family Tree:
1870 Census
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Profession: Stonemason
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:
Living with Samuel and Emily are grandsons John and James Stowers, who incidentally, are enumerated twice in the 1870. Once in the home of their grandparents and again in their own home with father Moses Stowers in Scott’s Precinct, Kenton Co., Ky.
1880 Census
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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
1850 Enslaver Census
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1860 Enslaver Census
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1870 Enslaver Census
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1880 Enslaver Census
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Compensation Information
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