Oakley, Zachariah Deyo (b. 26 OCT 1808, d. 28 OCT 1876)

Note: BURIAL: Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Portville, NY
Z.D. Oakley d 1876, Section A Lot 66 SE Grv 2 Lot Owner Oakley

1840: Census shows County: Saratoga, Township: Providence with 2 boys, 1 girl, wife, self and 2 males between 40-50 in residence

1855: TOWN OF PORTVILLE INDEX NEW YORK STATE, CATT. CO. Zachariah Deyo Oakley house #153 Family #149 Page #142

1865: TOWN of PORTVILLE INDEX NEW YORK STATE, CATT. CO. Zacharia Deyo Oakley page #363

1870: Federal Census, New York Cattaragus County, Portville 61 yrs of age, working on Farm, living with wife Lunanna age 59
Parents all of USA birth

1864: Name: Zachariah D Oakley ,
Enlistment Date: 07 September 1864
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: New York
Unit Numbers: 1597 1597
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 07 September 1864 at the age of 44
Enlisted in Company A, 90th Infantry Regiment New York on 07 September 1864.
Mustered out Company A, 90th Infantry Regiment New York on 03 June 1865 in Washington, DC


Sept 10, 1864 - Elmira, New York
Sept 20, 1864 - Dunkirk, New York
Oct 6, 1864 - Hart Island, New York
Oct 31, 1864 - Cedar Creek, Virginia
Sept - Oct 1864 - Present, Company Muster Roll - remark, Recruit from Depot
Nov - Dec 1864 - Present, Company Muster Roll
Jan - Feb 1865 - Present, Company Muster Roll
Mar - Apr 1865 - Present, Company Muster Roll -remark, Recruit
Mar 1865 - Absent, Company Muster Roll - remark, Detached service with Provost Guard
May - June 1865 - Discharged per general order no 51, May 30 1865
Honorably discharged at Washington DC June 3, 1865 age 56
June 6, 1865 - Company Muster Roll, Dropped or Discharged


Ninetieth Infantry.-Cols., Joseph S. Morgan, Nelson Shaurman; Lieut.-Cols., Lewis W. Tinelli, Nelson Shaurman, John C. Smart, Henry De La Paturelle; Majs., Joseph S. D. Agreda, Nelson Shaurman, John C. Swart, Henry De La Paturelle.

This regiment, known as the Hancock Guard, was recruited mainly in New York city and vicinity and was mustered into the U. S. service at New York from Sept. to Dec., 1861, for a three years' term. It embarked on Jan. 5, 1862, for Key West, Fla., where it performed garrison duty for some months.

The reenlisted men received their veteran furlough in Aug. and Sept., 1864, and the remainder of the regiment served in their absence with the 160th N. Y. infantry. The veteran regiment was ordered to Virginia early in September and joined the Army of the Shenandoah while it was conducting the campaign against Gen. Early.

The 90th fought at the Opequon, Fisher's hill and Cedar creek, losing 73 in killed, wounded and missing in the last named engagement. The original members not reenlisted were mustered out during Dec. 1864, and the regiment was consolidated into a battalion of six companies, which received in June, 1865, the members of the 114th, 116th and 133d N. Y. infantry.

The regiment served in the 1st brigade of Dwight's division at Washington from April to June, 1865, and at Savannah, Ga., from June to July. It was then ordered to Hawkinsville, Ga., for a time and concluded its term of service at Savannah, where it was mustered out on Feb. 9, 1866. It lost 60 by death from wounds and 190 from other causes.

Source: (Name)
Title: GEDCOM File : ~ATF1.ged
Note: ABBR GEDCOM File : ~ATF1.ged

Data:
Text: 4 DEC 2002

Source: (Burial)
Title: The Soldier Dead The Brave Boys Who Will be Honored To-day
Publication: Olean: Olean Democrat, May 30 1889
Note: ABBR The Soldier Dead

Page: Page 12
Data:
Text: 22 AUG 2003

Occupation: Date: 1864
Place: Lumberman

Occupation: Date: 1850
Place: Farmer

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Allegany, Cattaraugus, NY

Census: Date: 1840
Place: Providence, Saratoga, New York

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Portville, Cattaraugus, New York

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Portville, Cattaraugus, New York

Note: 1880: Census, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, teacher, living withher parents

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts

Note: Abigail and Joshua were first cousins

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Bloomfield, Somerset, Maine

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Bloomfield, Somerset, Maine

Note: 1860: Census, Milwaukee Ward 4, Milwaukee, WI

Note: 1860: Census, Bloomfield, Somerset, ME, living with daughter Abigail andson-in-law Joshua Burgess

1850: Census, living with daughter Abigail and son-in-law Joshua Burgess

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Bloomfield, Somerset, Maine

Note: The ancestorial home of the Elder family is assumed to have been Elderslie, near Paisley in Renfreshire, Scotland. Being about six miles from Glasgow. It was in this shire that the progenitor of the American family was born, about 1679. He moved to Lough Neagh, country Antrim, Ireland. The date of his arrival in Pennsylvania is unknown, but he died near Harrisburg, at seven o'clock July 28th, 1746, and is interred in an unmarked grave in The Paxtang Grave-Yard attached to the church, where his son, the famous "fighting parson," ministered for many

The wife of Robert Elder (immigrant died Oct. 25th, 1742, at 8 o'clock at night. She is also buried in Paxtange Grave-Yard. (above data taken from a records of Parson Elder, kept in vol. of Bishop Atterbury's sermons. Now in possession of Dauphin Co. His. Soc. )

Robert and Eleanor Elder were the founders of the Elder family in America. Robert Elder was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, about the year 1679 and died in Pennsylvania on July 28, 1746. Eleanor, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1703, was born in Edinburgh in 1684, and died in Pennsylvania on October 25, 1742. After their marriage Robert and Eleanor migrated to Lough Neagh, County Antrim, Ulster Province, Ireland, where their five sons, Robert, John, Thomas, David, and James, and at least one daughter, Ann, were born.

In 1727, Robert and Eleanor and the three youngest of their children, David, James, and Anne, came to America and settled in Pennsylvania, five miles north of the present city of Harrisburg. At that time this section of Pennsylvania was Lancaster County's township known as Paxtang, which later became Dauphin County. Robert, John, and Thomas, oldest sons of Robert and Eleanor, remained in the "Old Country" until 1733 at which time these three (already married) decided to follow their parents, their sister, their two brothers, and their families to the New World.

John, the second son, born in Edinburgh on January 26, 1706, had graduated from the University of Edinburg where he received a classical education. Subsequently, he has studied divinity and, in 1732, was licensed to preach the gospel. He came to America as a regularly licensed minister and was received by the Presbytery of New Castle, but on October 5, 1737, was transferred to the Presbytery of Donegal. He served Paxtang Church, organized in 1729, for one year on probation. On April 12, 1738, he accepted a call to this church and, on November 22 of that year, was installed as pastor. Among those who signed his call were John Gray, Alex Johnston, and Alex Johnson. Later, John Elder assumed the pastorate of Derry Church organized in 1714. He continued to serve Paxtang and Derry from the time they were organized until 1736, considered as branches of the same congregation, until April 13, 1791, or two years before he died at the age of 86.

The census of 1790 lists only two heads of families in Randolph County by the name of Elder, John Elder and James Elder. John is accredited with four boys under sixteen years old and two females, including the female head. The household of James at that time consisted of himself and one female, supposed to be his wife.

According to a letter written some years ago by William Nease Elder, the parents of John and James Elder came to Randolph County from Pennsylvania. This letter states that their mother, Elizabeth Elder, died about 1780 and was a widow. William Nease Elder, Thomas Julian Redding's grandfather who lives on Archdale Road, was born November 3, 1910.

A careful search for a marriage record of an Elder in Pennsylvania to someone by the name of Elizabeth revealed that on March 05, 1759, in Philadelphia, one James Elder was married to Elizabeth Maipes. This couple is supposed to be the parents of John and James.

William Nease Elder's grandson, Carl Elder Spencer, was employed at the Salisbury Post, and was the author of Odd Facts in Carolina. He died on March 10, 1988, and was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in High Point, North Carolina.

-- Bertie Robbins Redding

Photo of double tombstone of Richard Elder and Martha Coltrane Elder located in Veech Cemetery, Red River County, Texas.
SOURCES: (as listed in the biography) "The Johnsons and Their Kin of Randolph" by Jessie O. Shaw; personal knowledge.

Source: North Carolina, Vol. 1 1993, Page 251 (Published by the Randolph County Heritage Book Committee)



Some of the information above has been found to be in error:

1) 1790 John and James Elder were heads of families in Randolph Co NC

2) And old letter states their mother, Elizabeth Elder, as a widow, died about 1780

3) A search for an Elizabeth marrying an Elder in PA. They found Elizabeth Maips (Maipes) marrying James Elder 5 March 1759 in Swedes Church of Philadelphia, PA. The Swede's and the Lutheran Churches have many published records. The Presbyterian has very few. Elizabeth Maipes died before James Elder and she died in PA. James and Elizabeth (Maipes) Elder stayed in PA until their deaths and never went to NC.

Additional Information for James and Elizabeth (Maipes) Elder:

* 1759 m 5 Mar 1759 Swede's Church, Philadelphia
* 1761 had Martha Elder b abt 1761 married William Taylor
* 1762 lived Fannet, Cumberland Co (later Franklin) PA
* 1763 had Agnes Elder 17 Mar 1763
* 1778 James Elder pd tax of 12 + pounds Fannet, Cumberland Co., PA
* 1779 James Elder owned 200 acres, 3 horses & 3 cattleJa
* 1780 James Elder owned 200 acres, 6 horses & 6 cattle
* 1781 James Elder owned 230 acres
* 1782 James Elder owned 230 acres, 3 horses & 4 cattle
* 1784 daughter Agnes Elder married Jun 1784 Robert Kerr
* 1785 Franklin Co, PA Deed Bk I, page 212 - James & Elizabeth (Maipes) Elder - 1785 - gave their land and other things to Robert Kerr
* 1816 Elizabeth Maipes Elder d 17 Jul 1816 age about 106
* 1817 Robert Kerr d 13 June 1817 - in his will recorded (Bk C page 343 Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA) provided for "my father-in-law James Elder" and mentions his wife, Agnes and their children
* 1818 James Elder d 13 Aug 1818 about the age 102 (James and Elizabeth are buried in the Spring Run Cemetery in Path Valley, Franklin Co., PA.)
* 1859 Agnes Elder Kerr d 15 April 1859 - her obituary states that both her parents lived to be over 1200


Source for the above research is Mary Cole

The ancestorial home of the Elder family is assumed to have been Elderslie, near Paisley in Renfreshire, Scotland. Being about six miles from Glasgow. It was in this shire that the progenitor of the American family was born, about 1679. He moved to Lough Neagh, country Antrim, Ireland. The date of his arrival in Pennsylvania is unknown, but he died near Harrisburg, at seven o'clock July 28th, 1746, and is interred in an unmarked grave in The Paxtang Grave- Yard attached to the church, where his son, the famous "fighting parson," ministered for many
The wife of Robert Elder (immigrant died Oct. 25th, 1742, at 8 o'clock at night. She is also buried in Paxtange Graveyard. (above data taken from a records of Parson Elder, kept in vol. of Bishop Atterbury's sermons. Now in possession of Dauphin Co. His. Soc. )

Name: Robert Elder
Year: 1720-1750
Place: Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 648.10
Primary Immigrant: Elder, Robert
Annotation: Date and port of arrival, date and place of settlement, or date of request for emigration with intended destination; a few are date and place of mention of residence in New World. In appendices, pages 317-377, indexer assumed all names listed had immigrat
Source Bibliography: BOLTON, CHARLES KNOWLES. Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America. Boston: Bacon and Brown, 1910. Reprint. Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1989. 398p.
Page: 278

Event: Type: DNA
Place: Proven link

Emigration: Date: 1730

Note: 1870: Census, living with Sister Abigail and brother-in-law JoshuaBurgess