Nathaniel Ide Thurber

1822-1863 · Pawtucket RI

Born 1822, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Died 1863

Children include Francis

Nathaniel Ide Thurber was born on 8 February 1822, at Pawtucket, Rhode Island. His parents are not known.

In April 1843 he married Rhoda M. Peck of Rehoboth. The marriage was entered both at Rehoboth, on 16 April, and at Attleboro, where the clerk wrote 2 April. Their son Francis Wheaton Thurber was born on 15 May 1844. Nathaniel farmed at Rehoboth, and Rhoda was there in the censuses of 1860, 1865 and 1870.

In December 1861 he enlisted for the war. He was thirty-nine, though he gave his age as thirty-eight, and he went into Company G of the 29th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as a private on 9 December 1861. The regiment served in Virginia in the spring and summer of 1862, in the Peninsular Campaign, the long and failed advance on Richmond. In June 1862 Nathaniel was reported missing. He came back, but broken, and on 12 February 1863 he was discharged for disability.

He lived less than eight months after his discharge. He died on 3 October 1863, at forty-one. He is named on a granite monument at Woodlawn Cemetery in Attleboro, with his regiment and company cut beneath his dates: "29 Mass. Co. G." Rhoda, named below him, lived until 1890.

Children

Francis Wheaton Thurber 1844-1907

Sources

Find a Grave, memorial 269276972, Woodlawn Cemetery, Attleboro, Massachusetts

Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, FamilySearch 1:1:FHPS-K4W and 1:1:FCQC-53N

Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, vol. 3 (Norwood, 1931), 29th Regiment, p. 314, archive.org massachusettssol31931mass

Rhode Island, Vital Records, 1846-1898, 1901-1955, FamilySearch 1:1:MD9F-1V3

Massachusetts State Vital Records, marriage of Nathaniel I. Thurber and Rhoda M. Peck, Rehoboth, 16 April 1843 (FamilySearch 1:1:FHPS-K4W), and as entered at Attleboro, 2 April 1843 (FamilySearch 1:1:FCQC-53N); Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, vol. 3 (1931), 29th Regiment, Company G, p. 314 (archive.org massachusettssol31931mass); death of Francis Wheaton Thurber, Providence, 1907, naming his parents Nathaniel and Rhoda (FamilySearch 1:1:MD9F-1V3); monument at Woodlawn Cemetery, Attleboro; Find a Grave memorial 269276972

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