Soldier:  Simon Peter Roach

Regiment:  187^th. 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