Silas B. HARMON

  General Notes:

SILAS B. HARMON, farmer and breeder of live-stock ; P. O. Delaware ; was born Jan. 9,1840, in the southeastern part of Brown Township, on the farm now owned by Johnson White, on Alum Creek; he is the fifth child of Silas and Sarah Harmon ; Silas was 4 years of age when his father moved from this farm to Illinois, where he remained but a short time when he returned to Brown Township for a year, and after a few years' residence in Liberty Township, moved to Marion Co., for four years, then went to Radnor, where the family lived about twelve years; while here, Silas B. enlisted in Co. A, 145th O. N. G.; upon his return home, his father sold out and moved to Marion Co., subsequently to this county, on the place now owned by J. S. Harman, where he remained until his death. Sept. 5, 1867, Silas B, was married to Viola D. Main, born March 10 1849, in Brown Township, eldest daughter o! Hosea Main; in March 1870, he moved to the place he now owns in the east part of Delaware Township; has eighty-one acres of land; they have four children-Blanche A., Linna M., Corgi Esta and Nellie ; Mr. Harmon is engaged in rais ing for the market Norman horses and a fins stock of hogs-Poland-China and Chester White He and wife are members of the Baptist Church

Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Delaware, Delaware, Ohio; Roll T623_1263; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 27.


Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Redlands, San Bernardino, California; Roll T624_94; Page: 17A; Enumeration District: 109; Image: 264.

Name: Silas B. Harman
Rank: Pvt.
Company: A
Regiment: 145
State: Ohio
Arm of Service: Infantry
Date of Filing: 1911
State/Arm of Service: Ohio Inf.
Company/Regiment: A,145
Publication Title: Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900
NARA Publication Number: T289
Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration
Collection Title: Civil War Pensions
Collection: Civil War Pension Index Cards

Silas married Viola MAIN, daughter of Hosea MAIN and Elizabeth HOLT, on 5 Sep 1867 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States. (Viola MAIN was born on 10 Mar 1849 in Brown, Delaware, Ohio, USA and died in California.)