John Nelson Lomison

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth. On September 30, 1850, he is listed as 11 years old in the census. Also identified as Nelson in 1850 census.

On June ??, 1860, he is listed as 20 years old in the census. Also identified as John N. in 1860 census.

On July 28, 1870, he is listed as 30 years old in the census. Also identified as Nelson in 1870 census.

On June 16, 1880, he is listed as 40 years old in the census. Identified as John N. in 1880 census.

These all indicate a birth in August or September 1839.

• Occupation: Farm Laborer, 1860, Philips Mills, Indiana, Pennsylvania. On his father's farm.

• Military Service: From Cemetery Records, 15 Aug 1862, Pennsylvania. Civil War Co I 135th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry (PVI) Private 8/15/62-5/24/63

Headstone inscription: Co I 135 PA Inf

Also from Family Search org and Park Service search

Name: John N. Lomison
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Event: Military Service
Rank In: Private
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Rank Out: Private
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Side: Union
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State (or Origin): Pennsylvania
Military Unit: 135th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry
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Company: I
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NARA Publication Title: Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Pennsylvania.
NARA Publication Number: M554
NARA Roll Number: 72
Film Number: 882407

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From: Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White, That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy, May 1-4, 1863. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2014. p. 157.

The 135th PA was in the first brigade of the third division (commanded by Abner Doubleday) of Reynolds's first corps. It was not involved in the battle of Chancellorsville. The 135th was disbanded shortly after the battle of Chancellorsville.

• Residence: From 1870 Census, 1870, Center Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Name: Nelson Lomison
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1870
Event Place: Pennsylvania, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Race: White
Race: W
Birth Year (Estimated): 1839-1840
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Page Number: 19
Household ID: 150
Line Number: 12
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M593
GS Film number: 000552849
Digital Folder Number: 004278582
Image Number: 00272


Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Nelson Lomison M 30 Pennsylvania
Miriam Lomison F 32 Pennsylvania
Elmer E Lomison M 7 Pennsylvania
John N Lomison M 5 Pennsylvania
Mary E Lomison F 3 Pennsylvania
Claria B Lomison F 1 Pennsylvania
Samuel Stewart M 71 Pennsylvania

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZPZ-2TR : 12 April 2016), Samuel Stewart in household of Nelson Lomison, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 19, family 150, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,849.

• Occupation: From Census, School Teacher, 1870, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

• Occupation: Merchant, 1871, Homer, Pennsylvania.

• Occupation: Oil Pumper, 1880, Center, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

• Residence: From 1880 Census, 1880, Center Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Also living with him are his wife, Miriam, and children: Elmer, age 17; John N. age 16; Mary E. age 13; Clara B. age 11; Sarah J. age 9; and Louvora age 6.

• Death: Indiana Messenger, 31 Jan 1883, page 3, 21 Jan 1883, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Jeremiah "Jere" Nelson Lomison, aged 42 years, 8 months. Dead was the only son of Jeremiah Lomison, ex-commissioner of Indiana County, Pa....On the 16th of December 1881, he received an injury, from a fall, while working on a portable saw-mill, near Rugh's station, which was the ultimate cause of his death....He leaves a wife and family of six children to mourn their loss....

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LOMISON -- On the 20th inst., in Center twp. J. Nelson Lomison, only son of Jeremiah Lomison, Esq., in his 43d year.

In the Lomison folder at the Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County

• Cemetery: Greenwood Cemetery, Jan 1883, White, Indiana, Pennsylvania. From listing at Treasures of the Past web site
Surname: Lomison
First Name: John
Middle Name: N(elson)
Information: (Civil War Co I 135th Regt PVI Pvt 8/15/62-5/24/63, b. Center Twp.(9N) d 21 jan 1883)
Co I 135 PA Inf
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Death:
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Section in Cemetery: 3

Please note if there is a section in the cemetery given then anything in ( ) was from the caretakers records. As sometimes names were just initials on the tombstone or other information was not given and we put it in the ( ) so that you would know this was not found on the tombstone.

• Property: Indiana Democrat, page 3, 25 Jul 1889, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Sale to be held of property of J. Nelson Lomison, deceased.

LOMISON J Nelson Indiana, go 21 Jan.1883 42y

• Gravestone: Westmoreland Cemetery: Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Marker only. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, White Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania

John married Miriam St. Clair "Danny" Stewart, daughter of Samuel B. Stewart and Elizabeth McFarland, about 1862 in Indiana, Pennsylvania. (Miriam St. Clair "Danny" Stewart was born in 1837 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, died on 2 Sep 1913 in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania and was buried on 4 Sep 1913 in Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown, Cambria, PA.)