Bill’s Family - Person Sheet
Bill’s Family - Person Sheet
NameEber Hall Hotchkin 
337, H322, 4472, M
337, H322, 4472, MBirth1833, Liberty, Sullivan County, NY, USA
Death20 Feb 1865, Florence, Florence County, SC, USA Age: 32
Memodied of starvation in a prisioner of war camp
Burial Florence, Florence County, SC
MemoBuried in a mass grave at the prison
Military SvsCo A, 86th IL Infantry, During The Civil War
FatherZebulon Hotchkin , 4475, M (1812-1890)
MotherElizabeth Ann Hall , 4476, F (1812-1839)
Misc. Notes
Eber Hall Hotchkin was born in 1833 at Liberty, Sullivan County, NY, USA. He was the son of Zebulon Hotchkin and Elizabeth Ann Hall. He was baptized at Liberty, Sullivan County, NY, on 8 June 1834. At the Presbyterian Church of Liberty, NY.. He married Celia Ann Bayne at El Paso, Woodford County, IL, USA, on 3 November 1857.1 Eber Hall Hotchkin was a Segt, andserved in Co A, 86th IL Infantry, during the Civil War. He died as a prisoner. He died on 20 February 1865 at Florence, Florence County, SC, USA. According to his Pension file, he died of starvation in a prisioner of war camp at Florence, SC..2 He was buried at Florence, Florence County, SC, . Buried in a mass grave at the prison..
Eber Hall Hotchkin, the oldest son of Zebulon, left home as a young man and wandered across the states of Ohio and Indiana and ended up in El Paso, IL; where he meet and married Celia Bayne, the daughter of an early pioneer of the area. Eber enlisted in the Union Army on 6 August 1862 and joined Co. A, 86th Regt of the Illinois Volunteers as a Sergeant. According to the records he died of stravation, in a Rebel prison camp at Florence, SC on 20 February 1865. This information is recorded in his wife's Pension Certificate #79216, where she asks for a pension for herself and their son Ernest F. Hotchkin, who she says was born on 1 June 1859 in El Paso. One of the documents in the file refers to a death date for Eber of 3 or 4 March 1865. Caroline Bayne, relationship to Celia not given, says in a sworn statement that Eber and Celia had no other children. Some of the Civil War records refer to Eber as Eben.
Eber Hall Hotchkin, the oldest son of Zebulon, left home as a young man and wandered across the states of Ohio and Indiana and ended up in El Paso, IL; where he meet and married Celia Bayne, the daughter of an early pioneer of the area. Eber enlisted in the Union Army on 6 August 1862 and joined Co. A, 86th Regt of the Illinois Volunteers as a Sergeant. According to the records he died of stravation, in a Rebel prison camp at Florence, SC on 20 February 1865. This information is recorded in his wife's Pension Certificate #79216, where she asks for a pension for herself and their son Ernest F. Hotchkin, who she says was born on 1 June 1859 in El Paso. One of the documents in the file refers to a death date for Eber of 3 or 4 March 1865. Caroline Bayne, relationship to Celia not given, says in a sworn statement that Eber and Celia had no other children. Some of the Civil War records refer to Eber as Eben.
Spouses
1Celia Ann Bayne 337, B500, 4473, F
337, B500, 4473, FFatherWilliam C. Bayne , 4480, M (1811-1864)
MotherCaroline Nevill , 4481, F (1810-1898)
Marriage3 Nov 1857, El Paso, Woodford County, IL, USA
ChildrenSilas T. , 4474, M (1858-1862)
Earnest Frank (Frank) , 4454, M (1859-1936)