Soldier: Elias Cornelius Nicholas
Regiment: 3rd. OVI
Company: I
Age: 20
Date Entering Service: 4/25/1861 re-enlisted 6/15/1861
Period of Service: 1 year, 8 months, 9 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed): Achieved the rank of Sergeant. Suffered a gun shot wound to the head at the Battle of Stone River, Tennessee on 1/31/1862. Discharged 2/24/1863.
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Rich Mountain, West Virginia 7/6/1861
Battle of Elkwater, West Virginia 7/11/1861
Battle of Bridgeport, Alabama 4/29/1862
Battle of Perryville, Kentucky 10/8/1862
Battle of Stone River, Tennessee 12/31/1862
Other interesting information discovered: Elias Cornelius Nicholas was born in the year of 1841. He married Susan E Shenck in Morrow County on 12/22/1867. In 1880 he was living in Toledo, Ohio and was employed as a carriage trimmer. The 1890 census shows Elias living in Cardington, Ohio. He applied for an invalid’s pension on 12/18/1863. His wife Susan applied for a widow’s pension on 4/4/1881.
Date of Death: 2/27/1881
Place of burial: Forest Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio
Researcher: Velda L Montgomery