Civil War Records of William H. Loker

Service

Co. Regiment/Ship From To Residence Occupation Notes
E 26th MVI Private; enl. Sept. 7, 1861; must. Oct. 18, 1861; discharged for disability March 11, 1863 March 11, 1863 Acton shoemaker

age 20;

died at home after discharge

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): 3 Pages (PDF)
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): page  58-59 (PDF)

Pension

Co. Regiment Date Filed Type App. No. Cert. No. State Beneficiary/Remarks
               

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  x

Grand Army of the Republic

x


Death

Date April 4, 1863
Place Acton, Mass.
Age 21
Cause chronic diarrhea
Obituary  
Funeral  
Burial   
Survived by son of Henry and Mary M.

Additional Information

Wm. H. Loker, age 19, is recorded as an inhabitant of Acton in the 1860 federal census, in household of Henry Loker (dwelling no. 36), which also included brother Jonathan Loker (source:  1860 United States Federal Census. In: Ancestry.com [online database]).

The death of William Loker is mentioned in a letter dated April 27, 1863 from Lydia Lucinda Fletcher to her son Aaron Jones Fletcher.

The death of Wm. H. Loker, Soldier in the United States Service, is recorded in the 1863/64 annual report for the Town of Acton, on p. 18. 

Vital records list the death of another brother that same month, Franklin Loker, on April 21, of consumption (source: Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 (online database). New England Historic Genealogical Society).

Name included on the Acton Memorial Library Soldiers' Tablet, "Our Honored Dead."

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See also:

Henry L. Hosmer. The Town of Acton in the Civil War,  1861-1865.  Tucson, AZ: The Author, 2001. 16, 38, 43,

 

 

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