Worn soldier boots, helmet, and dog tags

Martin Fox

Birth Year: 1838
Birth Place: Hesse, Germany
Residence at Enlistment: Arenzville, IL
Regiment(s): Co B, 101st IL Inf
Military Notes:

Mustered in 1862; mustered out at Bladensburg, MD, on 7 Jun 1865.

Death Year: 1893
Death Place: Virginia, IL
Burial Place: Virginia, IL
Cemetery Name: Walnut Ridge Cemetery
Find-a-Grave#: 178462687
Spouse(s): Pairlee Cox (m. 1866 in Cass County, IL)
Remarks: Resident of Arenzville when he entered service

He appears in the 1860 federal census living in Arenzville in the household of a family named Howell. He appears as “Martin Ficks” in the 1863 Draft Registration rolls of Cass County as a man living in Arenzville township and with prior military service.