This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tilley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/465.1 Message Board Post: Tamara, I'm not related, but here are a few items you may not already have. Civil War Pension Index: Benjamin F. Tilley, Co. I, B & K, 19th Wisconsin Infantry Filed for pension 8 Apr 1882 from Iowa, Application No. 445582 Widow, Jane E., filed for widow's pension 1 Aug 1924, from Indiana, Application No. 1223916 If you haven't ever requested his Civil War pension file, it might be worth the money. Even though he filed early (1884) it should contain information about his children up to that year. Also, since Benjamin appears to have died in 1924 and his widow filed then, it could have a great deal more. Information on ordering Benjamin's pension file can be found at: http://www.archives.gov/research_room/index.html Go to Veterans Service Records and then request a copy of NATF Form 85. Include the File numbers above to shorten the time to wait for the file. The cost is $14.75 or $37 depending on what you request. For $14.75 you should get most genealogical data from the file, but the $37 can be a bargain if it's a large file. Civil War Service Record: Benjamin F Tilley Residence: Muscoda, Wisconsin Promoted to Full Corporal Enlisted as a Private on 22 January 1862 Enlisted in Company K, 19th Infantry Regiment Wisconsin on 22 January 1862. Transfered on 01 July 1862 from company K to company I Transfered on 01 May 1865 from company I to company B Mustered out Company K, 19th Infantry Regiment Wisconsin on 09 August 1865 in Richmond, VA You can view his various Company Rosters at: http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/roster/index.html It seems that your Benjamin was actually in 3 different Companies. As for other siblings, the following is found in the 1880 census: 1880 Census, Corydon, Wayne, Iowa Source: FHL Film 1254369, National Archives Film T9-0369, Page 291C B. F. TILLEY, 41, Mail Carrier, VA, MD, MD Jenny E., 31, Keeping House, OH, OH, OH William F., 12, At Home, MO, VA, OH Daisy G., 4, At Home, IA, VA, OH Bessie E., 3, IA, VA, OH Charles, 5 Months, IA, VA, OH Hope this helps you out. Regards, Dave Taft Arlington, TX http://members.cowtown.net/dtaft/