Soldier: Simon Peter Roach
Regiment: 187th. OVI
Company: G
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: March 2, 1865
Period of Service: 10 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out at Macon, Georgia on 1/20/1866
Battles in which he fought:
Provost duty in Macon, Georgia
Other interesting information discovered:
Simon Roach was born in Cardington, Ohio in February 1845. He married Phoebe Owen in Marion, Ohio on June 2, 1867, together they had five children. At some point Simon and his family moved to Iowa where he was listed as a farmer. In the 1880 Census he is listed as a wagon maker in Lock Springs, Missouri. The 1900 Census finds Simon farming in Newton, Missouri. He was granted an invalid pension on September 17, 1889. Phoebe Roach received a widow’s pension on September 19,1907.
Date of Death: 1907 Place of burial: Smith Cemetery, Alton, Missouri
Adopted By: Researcher: Velda L Montgomery