Civil War Records of Jonathan W. Loker

Jonathan White Loker, collection of the Acton Memorial Library

Service

Co. Regiment/Ship From To Residence Occupation Notes
E 26th MVI Private; enl. Sept. 7, 1861; must. Oct. 18, 1861; prom. Corpl. Aug. 15, 1862 must. out Nov. 7, 1864 Acton shoemaker

age 22

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): x
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): page  50-51 (PDF)

Pension

Co. Regiment Date Filed Type App. No. Cert. No. State Beneficiary/Remarks
E 26th MVI Nov. 26, 1887 Invalid 679 890 462 246 Mass.  
June 25, 1889 Widow 398 515 263 426 Mass. Almira H. Loker

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  3 pages  (PDF*)

Grand Army of the Republic

Recorded as member no. 2 in the membership roster of Isaac Davis Post No. 138 G.A.R., Acton, Massachusetts. Served as Post Commander, 1884. (Acton Memorial Library archives, 92.2.1). 

G.A.R. Personal War Sketch

Death

Date May 29, 1889
Place Acton, Mass.
Age 49 years, 8 months
Cause bright's disease
Obituary  
Funeral  
Burial Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton,  Mass. (source: death record, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 (online database). New England Historic Genealogical Society.)
Survived by Almira H. Loker

Additional Information

Born in Natick to parents Henry and Mary White (source: death record, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 [online database]. New England Historic Genealogical Society.) 

Jonathan W. Loker, a shoemaker, age 20, is recorded as an inhabitant of Acton in the 1860 federal census, in household of Henry and Mary Loker (dwelling no. 36), which also included his brother William H. Loker (source:  1860 United States Federal Census. In: Ancestry.com [online database]).

Almira H., widow of Jonathan W. Loker, is recorded in the 1890 special veterans census as a resident of Acton (source: 1890 Veterans Schedules. In: Ancestry.com [online database].)

Name included on the Acton Memorial Library Soldiers' Tablet, "The Men of Acton Who Fought For The Union."

The Portrait of Jonathan White Loker (above), by Arthur F. Davis, is in the collection of the Acton Memorial Library (AML 66.1.11).

 

 

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