Acton Memorial Library Civil War Archives | Civil War Records of Timothy Sheehan

Civil War Records of Timothy Sheehan (Shehan)

Service

Co.	Regiment/Ship	From	To	Residence	Occupation	Notes
E	26th MVI	Private; enl. and must. Oct. 29, 1861; re-enlist. Jan. 1, 1864	must. out Aug. 26, 1865	Acton	farmer	age 22

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): x
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): page 48-49, 50-51 (PDF)

Pension

Co.	Regiment	Date Filed	Type	App. No.	Cert. No.	State	Beneficiary/Remarks
E	26th MVI	March 23, 1882	Invalid	444 047	894 000	Mass.
E	26th MVI	Jan. 5, 1891	Widow	499 165	357 559	Mass.	Margaret Sheehan

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives): 13 pages (PDF*)

Grand Army of the Republic

Death

Date	October 29, 1890
Place	Concord, Mass.
Age	55
Cause	suicide by drowning
Obituary	Concord Enterprise, December 12, 1890 Concord Enterprise, December 19, 1890
Funeral
Burial
Survived by	Margaret Sheehan

Additional Information

In Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, as "Timothy Shehan."

Younger brother of Dennis Sheehan (source: deposition of Dennis Sheehan in Timothy Sheehan pension file).

A son, Timothy, was born to Timothy and Margaret (Fitzgerald) Sheehan on April 9, 1873 in Concord, Mass. Timothy Sr. is recorded as a laborer, born in County Cork, Ireland. (source: Concord birth register, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910. In: American Ancestors [online database].)

At the time of his death, Timothy Sheehan was a married 55 year old farmer and resident of Concord, Mass. He was born in Ireland to parents John Sheehan and Cetherine Kelly. He died by suicidal drowning in Concord Ocotober 29, 1890 (source: Concord death register, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910. In: American Ancestors [online database].)

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