Henry S. Dains
Born: 12-14-1840, Kent County, Michigan
Civil War Military records: enlisted June 16,1862, as a Private in the 38th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, K Company. His eyes were brown, hair brown, complexion light, height 5� 10 3/4�. Transferred to Invalid Corps on 3-15-1864, meaning that he was wounded at the Siege of Vicksburg, MS. Discharged September 2, 1865 at Davenport, Iowa. He was from Frankville, Iowa and listed as a farmer. We were told that several of his cousins were also in the Army and Henry was the only one survived. The wound he received caused a brain tumor. He received a pension under Certificate #169.876.
He married Sarah Howard, the day that he left for duty in the Civil War. After the war he returned home and farmed. They had two boys, Morton H. and Ernest H. In 1881, after a divorce from Sarah, he moved to Kimball, Brule County South Dakota. He started a Indian Trading Post and lost it. Sarah and the two boys and Sarah�s sister Marion continued farming until Morton married Emma Packard in 1888, and then sold farm to her brother Clark Howard.
He was admitted to the Old Soldiers Home, Hot Springs, South Dakota on February 28, 1911. After spending a lot of time between South Dakota Human Services Center, in Yankton , South Dakota and the Old Soldiers Home in Hot Springs, South Dakota. He was declared insane, on 3-29-1917 and transferred to Yankton, South Dakota on 4-2-1917, at 76 years of age. He was listed as a Danes and not Dains, with senility conditions. I have no date of his death and were he is buried, but will find out shortly. (Gene Ortman)
Items from Old Soldiers Home forms:
Listed as: Henry S. Danes
Admitted: 2-28-1911
Declared insane: 3-29-1917
Discharged: 4-2-1917
Nearest Relative:Martha ????
Lady friend: Della Bordin, from Albany, New York
From: Kimball, South Dakota
From National Archives:
Ludlow Township, Allamakee County Iowa, 1870
Dains, HS 30 farmer, born Michigan
Sarah 32 keeps house, born Vermont
Morton 4 at home, born Iowa
Ernest 2 at home, born Iowa
From Postville Review, 1873-1898
Groom: Dains, Morton H.
Bride: Packard, Emma A.
Date: 6-6-1889
Place: Frankville, Iowa
Who by: Rev. W.H. McCuskey
Married. At the residence of the brides father, in Frankville township, Winneshiek county, Iowa on November 27, 1873 by H.S. Dains, Justice of the Peace; Mr. John L. Webster and Miss Sarah J. Letchford, both of Frankville.
WE STILL DONT KNOW WHO HIS FATHER AND MOTHER WERE
Born: 12-14-1840, Kent County, Michigan
Civil War Military records: enlisted June 16,1862, as a Private in the 38th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, K Company. His eyes were brown, hair brown, complexion light, height 5� 10 3/4�. Transferred to Invalid Corps on 3-15-1864, meaning that he was wounded at the Siege of Vicksburg, MS. Discharged September 2, 1865 at Davenport, Iowa. He was from Frankville, Iowa and listed as a farmer. We were told that several of his cousins were also in the Army and Henry was the only one survived. The wound he received caused a brain tumor. He received a pension under Certificate #169.876.
He married Sarah Howard, the day that he left for duty in the Civil War. After the war he returned home and farmed. They had two boys, Morton H. and Ernest H. In 1881, after a divorce from Sarah, he moved to Kimball, Brule County South Dakota. He started a Indian Trading Post and lost it. Sarah and the two boys and Sarah�s sister Marion continued farming until Morton married Emma Packard in 1888, and then sold farm to her brother Clark Howard.
He was admitted to the Old Soldiers Home, Hot Springs, South Dakota on February 28, 1911. After spending a lot of time between South Dakota Human Services Center, in Yankton , South Dakota and the Old Soldiers Home in Hot Springs, South Dakota. He was declared insane, on 3-29-1917 and transferred to Yankton, South Dakota on 4-2-1917, at 76 years of age. He was listed as a Danes and not Dains, with senility conditions. I have no date of his death and were he is buried, but will find out shortly. (Gene Ortman)
Items from Old Soldiers Home forms:
Listed as: Henry S. Danes
Admitted: 2-28-1911
Declared insane: 3-29-1917
Discharged: 4-2-1917
Nearest Relative:Martha ????
Lady friend: Della Bordin, from Albany, New York
From: Kimball, South Dakota
From National Archives:
Ludlow Township, Allamakee County Iowa, 1870
Dains, HS 30 farmer, born Michigan
Sarah 32 keeps house, born Vermont
Morton 4 at home, born Iowa
Ernest 2 at home, born Iowa
From Postville Review, 1873-1898
Groom: Dains, Morton H.
Bride: Packard, Emma A.
Date: 6-6-1889
Place: Frankville, Iowa
Who by: Rev. W.H. McCuskey
Married. At the residence of the brides father, in Frankville township, Winneshiek county, Iowa on November 27, 1873 by H.S. Dains, Justice of the Peace; Mr. John L. Webster and Miss Sarah J. Letchford, both of Frankville.
WE STILL DONT KNOW WHO HIS FATHER AND MOTHER WERE