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Limes, James
1817 - 1878 (60 years)-
Name Limes, James Birth 6 May 1817 Fayette County, Ohio 
[1] Gender Male Reference Number LIME.J001 _FGRAVE 5097220 Military Service American Civil War, Private, Company B, 48th Illinois Infantry [1, 2] - From records compiled by Pansy Limes:
Certificate of Disability for Discharge
James Limes private of Captain William J. Stephenson Company B., of the 48th. Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers, was enlisted by William J. Stephenson, of the 48th. Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers at Louisville, Illinois on the second day of Sept. 1862, to serve three years; he was born in Fayette County in the state of Ohio, is 42 years of age, five feet 10 inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, auburn hair, and by occupation when enlisted a blacksmith. During the last two months said soldier has been unfit for duty 50 days. Said Limes was able for duty for three months after enlisting, disease caused by explosion.
Station: Tilsburg, Tennessee
Date: May 2nd, 1862 Lt. F. D. Stephenson
I CERTIFY that I have carefully examined the said James Limes of Captain Stephenson's Co., and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of neuralgia of the head with a diseased condition of the brain.
A. Goslin, Acting Surgeon
48th. Regiment Illinois Volunteers
Discharged this 13th day of May 1862
Claim of Officer or Soldier for Invalid Pension
The State of Illinois, County of Clay
On this 28th day of Oct., A.D., 1864 personally appeared before The Clerk of the Clerk of the Clay County Court a Court of Record within and for said county, James Limes aged 47 years, a resident of -- in a county of Clay, and the State of Illinois, who, being first duly sworn according to law, declares that he is be identical James Limes who enlisted in the service of the United States, at Louisville, in the County of Clay, and State of Illinois on the second day of Sept., in the year 1861 as a private in Company B., commended by Captain W. J. Stephenson, in the 48th Richmond of Illinois Volunteers, commended by C. L. Haynie in the war of 1861, and was honorably discharged on about the 12th day of May A.D. 1862 as will appear by his certificate of discharge herewith presented to Certificate of Discharge was filed with a former Declaration in the office of Pensions.
That while in the service aforesaid, in the line of his duty he was struck between his shoulders by a spent ball producing injury of the spine and the concussion produced by the firing of heavy artillery has seriously affected his head producing a falling or spasmodic affliction's at times entirely disabling him from labor and at all times from following his trade which is that of a blacksmith to any extent.
My post office address is Louisville, Illinois
That since leaving the service he has resided at Clay County, in the State of Illinois, and his occupation has been blacksmithing and farming to the extent of his ability.
Civil War Veterans Buried in Clay County, Illinois_0027 Compiled by Les Higgason
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48th Illinois Infantry Regiment American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865)
Clay County Civil War Veterans
A Virtual Cemetery Created By Ewood Sexton
Death 14 Apr 1878 Hord, Clay County, Illinois [1] Burial Old Union Cemetery, Louisville, Clay County, Illinois [1] 
Headstone, Limes, James Person ID I55648 Carl Wayne Gray Research Last Modified 29 Aug 2024
- From records compiled by Pansy Limes:
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Birth - 6 May 1817 - Fayette County, Ohio 
Death - 14 Apr 1878 - Hord, Clay County, Illinois 
Burial - - Old Union Cemetery, Louisville, Clay County, Illinois = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - James Limes was a son of Harmon Limes Jr. and Mary McKee. He married Jane Kindred in Putnam County, IN on April 6, 1839.
James Limes enlisted in the Union army in Sept 1861. He was seriously injured in the Civil War in early 1862. He died in Clay County, IL in 1878 and was buried at Old Union Cemetery.
Children of James and Jane (Kindred) Limes were:
Mary Elizabeth Limes - married George W. Tolliver
Nancy J. Limes - married Samuel Blair
Nathan Riley Limes - married Caroline Garten
Thomas H. Limes - married Mary Eliza A. Stark
Harmon Limes
Sarah A. Limes - married James S. Stroud
George Samuel Limes - married Mary Ellen Hayes
William K. Limes - married Lucretia MacPheeters
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From records compiled by Pansy Limes:
Certificate of Disability for Discharge
James Limes private of Captain William J. Stephenson Company B., of the 48th. Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers, was enlisted by William J. Stephenson, of the 48th. Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers at Louisville, Illinois on the second day of Sept. 1862, to serve three years; he was born in Fayette County in the state of Ohio, is 42 years of age, five feet 10 inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, auburn hair, and by occupation when enlisted a blacksmith. During the last two months said soldier has been unfit for duty 50 days. Said Limes was able for duty for three months after enlisting, disease caused by explosion.
Station: Tilsburg, Tennessee
Date: May 2nd, 1862 Lt. F. D. Stephenson
I CERTIFY that I have carefully examined the said James Limes of Captain Stephenson's Co., and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of neuralgia of the head with a diseased condition of the brain.
A. Goslin, Acting Surgeon
48th. Regiment Illinois Volunteers
Discharged this 13th day of May 1862
Claim of Officer or Soldier for Invalid Pension
The State of Illinois, County of Clay
On this 28th day of Oct., A.D., 1864 personally appeared before The Clerk of the Clerk of the Clay County Court a Court of Record within and for said county, James Limes aged 47 years, a resident of -- in a county of Clay, and the State of Illinois, who, being first duly sworn according to law, declares that he is be identical James Limes who enlisted in the service of the United States, at Louisville, in the County of Clay, and State of Illinois on the second day of Sept., in the year 1861 as a private in Company B., commended by Captain W. J. Stephenson, in the 48th Richmond of Illinois Volunteers, commended by C. L. Haynie in the war of 1861, and was honorably discharged on about the 12th day of May A.D. 1862 as will appear by his certificate of discharge herewith presented to Certificate of Discharge was filed with a former Declaration in the office of Pensions.
That while in the service aforesaid, in the line of his duty he was struck between his shoulders by a spent ball producing injury of the spine and the concussion produced by the firing of heavy artillery has seriously affected his head producing a falling or spasmodic affliction's at times entirely disabling him from labor and at all times from following his trade which is that of a blacksmith to any extent.
My post office address is Louisville, Illinois
That since leaving the service he has resided at Clay County, in the State of Illinois, and his occupation has been blacksmithing and farming to the extent of his ability.
- James Limes was a son of Harmon Limes Jr. and Mary McKee. He married Jane Kindred in Putnam County, IN on April 6, 1839.
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