Soldiers and Sailors' Home Residents
In 1885 the General Assembly created the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Quincy to provide subsistence and a home for honorably discharged and disabled veterans of the Mexican and Civil Wars. In succeeding years Illinois veterans of all wars and veterans' wives, mothers, and daughters became eligible for admission. In 1973 the General Assembly changed the home's name to the Illinois Veterans' Home. Since 1976 the Department of Veterans' Affairs has administered the home.
The database was created and donated to the Illinois State Archives by Fred Delap of Kansas, Illinois. Delap, a volunteer with the Edgar County Genealogical Society, has also indexed the names of Illinois veterans of the War of 1812, Winnebago War, Black Hawk War, Mexican War, Civil War, and Spanish-American War.
This database indexes the names of male residents of the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home admitted from its opening in 1887 through September 1916. Female residents are also included from their first admissions in 1908 through September 1916. The database contains more than 14,000 entries. The 1st –16th Biennial Reports of the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home are the sources of the names included in the database.
NAME * DATE ADMITTED * COMPANY * UNIT
ADKINS, WILLIAM F * OCTOBER 13, 1890 * H * 51 IN INF
ADKINS, WILLIAM F * SEPTEMBER 23, 1896 * H * 51 IN INF
BAINBRIDGE, JOSEPH * OCTOBER 31, 1902 * F * 6 IL CAV
BAINBRIDGE, JOSEPH * APRIL 18, 1904 * F * 6 IL CAV
BOWLES, DANIEL R * AUGUST 15, 1906 * I * 120 IL INF
BOZIER, JOHN D * APRIL 3, 1887 * K * 120 IL INF
COOPER, W H H * AUGUST 5, 1904 * K * 144 IL INF
FORD, PATRICK * JANUARY 23, 1901 * H * 136 IL INF
GANN, ISAAC W * MARCH 18, 1901 * B * 120 IL INF
GREEN, JAMES * FEBRUARY 15, 1899 * K * 10 TN CAV
HAMES, SAMUEL T * AUGUST 19, 1887 * F * 47 OH INF
HARDEN, PETER * APRIL 9, 1902 * B * 52 USC INF
HENRY, ALFRED J * DECEMBER 20, 1905 * A * 41 OH INF
HOBBS, BARNES J * MAY 10, 1897 * F * 31 IL INF
JONES, WILLIAM S * OCTOBER 11, 1911 * K * 60 IL INF
LEECH, JACK * JULY 15, 1899 * K * 29 IL INF
MANSON, ALLEN * AUGUST 4, 1903 * K * 3 IL CAV
MCCUAN, JACOB * APRIL 13, 1903 * K * 120 IL INF
MCLENAN, JACOB * APRIL 3, 1887 * K * 120 IL INF
MCMILLAM, JAMES * APRIL 6, 1902 * D * 12 NY CAV
PENROD, RAYFORD * OCTOBER 12, 1902 * E * 60 IL INF
PENROD, RAYFORD * JANUARY 23, 1898 * E * 60 IL INF
RUSSELL, CHRISTINE * SEPTEMBER 2, 1913 * *
RUSSELL, JOSEPH A * SEPTEMBER 2, 1913 * H * 48 IL INF
SLACK, WILFORD * NOVEMBER 25, 1904 * A * 145 IL INF
TODD, WILLIAM B * OCTOBER 26, 1905 * E * 35 KY INF
Extracted 30 Apr 2016 by Norma Hass from online Illinois State Archives. More information about each person listed can be found at the Illinois State Archives website.
