Hoisington/Horsington Family Web Site

Vitals

Birth	1 Jul 1837 Salem, Washtenaw, MI 1
Death	19 May 1913 (age 75) Lacota, Van Buren, MI 1
Burial
Occupation	1858-1865 (age 21)Farm laborer 1 1870-1882 (age 45) Garden and Stable Worker; Jackson City, Jackson MI 1

 

Marriage 1

Spouse	Barbara MILLER
Date	Date Unknown
Place

 

Marriage 2

Spouse	Almyra ROGERS
Date	abt 1862 (age 25)
Place	, , MI

 

Children

Almira HOISINGTON (24 Mar 1862 - )

Charles H. HOISINGTON (4 Feb 1864 - )

 

Marriage 3

Spouse	Fanny L. HOISINGTON (See Notes)
Date	bef 1876 (age 38)
Divorce	bef 1876 (age 38) 1
Place

 

Marriage 4

Spouse	Sarah CROFTS
Date	19 Mar 1876 (age 38)
Place	, Jackson, MI 8,3
Divorce	18 Apr 1881 (age 43) and 10 Feb 1903 (age 65) Jackson City, Jackson, MI 1, 3

 

Children

Unknown HOISINGTON ( -3 Feb 1886)

 

Marriage 5

Spouse	Betsey UNKNOWN
Date	3 May 1906 age 68)
Place	Jackson City, Jackson, MI 1

Notes

Birth:

Computed from age at date of enlistment.

1st Marriage:

This marriage is not documented in Edward's pension files.

2nd Marriage abt 1862:

The Dibeans' have a marriage of Hoisington, Edward Daniel to Roger, Almyra about 1862.

Residence 1864 (age 27) Unadilla, Livingston, MI 1

Occupation bet 1858-1865 (age 21) farm laborer 1

Military 1865:

Edward D. Hoisington

Claimed Residence in Unadilla (MI)
Enlist Date 7 Mar 1865
Enlist Place: Unadilla
Enlist Rank: Private
AGE 27
Served Michigan
Last Reported Residence at Jackson MI

Enlisted H Co. 24th Inf. Reg. MI Mustered out at Detroit MI on 30 Jun 1865

Listed as "Hoisington, E. D. " on The Edward Pomeroy Post No. 48, Department of Michigan on the Grand Army of the Republic web site.

Listed in "Michigan Soldiers and Sailors" as:

Hoisington, Edward D., Unadilla. Enlisted in company H, Twenty-fourth Infantry, March 7, 1865, at Unadilla, for 1 year, age 27. Mustered March 7, 1865. Joined regiment at Springfield, Ill., March 30, 1865.

Residence 1867/68 (age 30) , Livingston, MI 1

Residence aft 1868 (age 31) Hardy, Livingston, MI 1

Residence 1869 (age 32) Howell, Livingston, MI 1

Residence 1870 (age 33) Jackson City, Jackson, MI 1

Occupation bet 1870-1882 (age 33) garden and stable worker; Jackson City, Jackson, MI 1

3rd Marriage:

She is listed in Edward's pension papers as Fanny Hoisington, but I have not been able to connect this marriage to any of the Fannie's in my database, so this may be a married name.

4th Marriage 1876 :

She is listed as his wife on a land transaction in Jackson, Jackson, MI in 1884. See note for property 1884.

Marriage performed by James Potts, Justice of the Peace, Jackson MI. Libr F, Page 191.

There is also a record of a Sarah Walker Crafts married to an Edward Hoisington 19 Mar 1876 on the Jackson County MI USGenweb page.

Property bet 1882-1884 (age 45) 4,5:

Edward D. Hoisington sold Lot 14 of Livermore's Addition, Jackson City to George D. Brown and Celeste Brown, his wife, for $150.

Edward D. Hoisington and Sarah Hoisington, his wife, sold Lot 14 in Jackson City to Alexander Brown Jr. of Jackson City for $1. "This deed being made to said party of the second part for the purpose of enabling him to reconvey the said real estate to said parties of the first part hereto so as to vest in them as husband and wife a joint estate with right of survivorship as provided by statute."

Pension 18 Nov 1886 (age 49) Applied for Civil War invalid pension 1

Residence 1889 (age 52) Jackson City, Jackson, MI 1

Pension granted bef 1890 (age 53) 3

Pension 1892 (age 55) Request for increase rejected. 1

1894 Census (age 57) 6:

HOISINGTON, Edward D., Jackson City Third Ward, Jackson Co.

Residence 1896 (age 59) Lacota, Van Buren, MI 1

5th Marriage 1905 (age 68):

Marriage performed by F. W. Fraser, Minister. Witnesses were Celia Griffith and Alonzo J. Blake, both of Jackson.

Census 1910 (age 73) , Van Buren, MI 7

Sources

1. Pension File #589835 and #503906 - Edward D. Hoisington.
2. Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Alphabetical Index. <08406.jpg> and <08417.jpg>.
3. Pension file #503906_Edward D. Hoisington. National Archives.
4. Jackson County MI Registrar of Deeds. Book 105, Page 522, dated 5/22/1882.
5. Ibid. Book 106, Page 548, dated 3/15/1884.
6. 1894 Veteran's Census - MI.
7. 1910 Census Index. ancestry.com.
8. Jackson County MI Registrar of Deeds. Book 106, page 548.

Unless otherwise indicated in the text, data is from "Hoisingtons in America" by Harry Hoisington, privately published 1935 and on file at NEHGS, Boston.