Thomas Kelty, Union Civil War Soldier
The following information was provided by Robert Osborne of Tempe Arizona
Thomas Kelty is buried at Poplar Grove National Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia.
Information obtained from Poplar Grove National Cemetery Website:
Name: Thomas Kelty
Company: K
Unit Number: 100th
State: Pennsylvania
Date of Death: July 31, 1864
Original Burial Place: At and near Meade Station
Gravestone Number: 0449
Comments: Died of Wounds
Date of Enlistment: Aug 31, 1861
Information obtained from Samuel P. Bates’ History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861 – 1865, Vol. 3.
p. 593 - Thomas Kelty mustered in the service August 31, 1861 in Company I (raised in Lawrence County, PA) of 100th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. He transferred to Company K of said regiment, January 16, 1863.
p. 594 – He died of wounds he received at Petersburg, Virginia, July 31, 1864.
Thomas Kelty was a descendant of Ellen Cleeland and Thomas Kelty through their son Samuel.
Notes for Thomas Kelty:
Lawrence County, PA Orphans Court, Docket 2, p. 401
December Term 1856
- Petition of Inquest of Real Estate of Samuel Kelty decd. -
At an Orphan Court in and for Lawrence County holden at New Castle Dec. 1st 1856. The petition of Thomas Kelty eldest son and heir at law of Samuel Kelty late of Township of Slippery Rock Tp, in said county decd was presented setting forth that your petition said father lately died intestate leaving a widow to wit, Harriet J Kelty (since intermarried with Thomas French) nonresident in said County and issue seven children to wit: Thomas Kelty your petitioner, Nancy intermarried with J. S. Wallace, Maria Kelty, W. H. Kelty, Mary Kelty, Almira L. Kelty and Benjamin A. Kelty all of whom are residents in said county of Lawrence the two former are of lawful age the next two are minors above the age of fourteen years and the remaining three are under the age of fourteen of which five minors John Randolph of said county is guardian…..
[The above document important is important in tracking his Civil War brother William H. or William H. H. Kelty after Civil War.]
Civil War Pensions
Thomas Kelty’s s two minor children Samuel Kelty b. 18 May 1859 and Ida May Kelty b 29th April 1862 received a miner’s pension [cert# 168610]. It was filed Oct. 11, 1873 on their behalf by Wallace Martin, their guardian. Previously the children’s mother Mary Hunter received a pension {cert# 45416] but remarried Daniel W. Gilbert 19th Sep 1867.