_Luther BALIS ________+
| (1774 - 1824) m 1797
_Abiah Palmer BALIS _|
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|--Henry M. BALIS
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| _Hendrick CLAUW ______
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|_Maria H. CLOUGH ____|
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|_Polly MCNEAL MCLEAN _
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This piece was written by Mary Anzolette Batchelder Balis. Her husband, Henry Balis, was the third son of Abiah and Maria Clough Balis. It came to me by way of Shirley Harris.
A Salute to my Husband
March 19, 1869. Yes, today is March 19, 1969. To you it is just a date, but to me it is the day of my darkest sorrow. This is the day upon which my husband, Henry M. Balis, departed from me and all of his friends below to be united with his Savior in the world above us.
We laid him to rest in a little cemetery in Orfordville between two of his friends whom he fought with in the Civil War. Here may he rest in peace.
I know you have all heard of the great George Washingtons and Andrew Jacksons and my husband may seem to you a small man next to them, but to me, his children, and his country, he, just as Mr. Washington, did his part. I salute you today, Henry A. Balis, my devoted husband, a loving father, a valiant Countryman, and a wonderful man.
Henry was born in Pittsford, New York, January 21, 1827. He had five brothers and one sister. He came to Wisconsin in 1845 to help break up the land around Orfordville. He lived in Orfordville for awhile and then moved to Spring Valley Corners looking for a better plot of land and more water for his cattle, where he set up farming.
I, Mary Anzolette Batchelder, was born in Orange, Vermont, and also moved to Orfordville. Here I met Henry and we were married March 10, 1861.
At the age of 34, Henry felt his duty to his country and joined the Union Army in early 1861. He was in Company G of the Thirteenth Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteers. Company G, which Henry was in, was called the Orfordville Volunteers and was headed by Captain Bigney. The Thirteenth Regiment was recruited from Rock County and Walworth County, six companies of the regiment being recruited from Rock County.
I was very proud when Henry was made Second Lieutenant of the Orfordville Volunteers at Orfordville, on September 10, 1861, by Governor Alexander W. Randall.
Then on October 12, 1861, he was appropriated First Lieutenant of the Orfordville Volunteers. This was quite an honor and also meant an increase in pay. Coming from a First Sergeant with a monthly pay of twenty-one dollars, to a first Lieutenant earning fifty-five dollars, meant twenty-nine more dollars for us a month. Believe me with children to support it surely helped.
One thing we did notice concerning the pay the different officers received, the Confederates paid more for each position than the Union did. In comparison with the offices I mentioned above, in the Confederate army, the First Sergeant also received twenty-one dollars a month, but the Second Lieutenant received eighty dollars and the First Lieutenant received ninety dollars. Of course this didn't affect our boys any because when you know you're fighting for the right cause money doesn't make any difference.
The Thirteenth Regiment rendezvoused at Camp Tredway, Janesville, and was mustered in October 17, 1861. By advice and effort of the chaplain, even an “army church” was organized, in Janesville, with a membership of 102. It proved an active and useful organization.
From Janesville the Regiment went to Leavenworth, Kansas and then on to Kentucky. They more or less traveled all around the area near Ky., Tenn., and Ala. During the rest of their stay in the army.
I remember particularly one incident that happened while Henry was in the war. He mentioned it in one of his letters. He said, “I have been doing different kinds of work lately and have been getting forty cents a day. We have been working for eleven days and that means quite a bit of money for me.” It was during the month of July 1862. Much sickness was being endured by his outfit at this time to top it all off the water was contaminated. You see the Southerners were poisoning all the water that they could reach, that the army would use. The only way to cope with this situation was to install an underground engine, which would be used for supplying the troops at that post with water. Henry happened to be in charge of the detachment of noncommissioned officers and privates employed on extra duty as mechanics and laborers, who were employed in the construction of this engine. Then they also had to construct a Curbelt Archway in the excavation for the purpose of fixing ventilation to this engine. While they were in the construction of the archway, the fumes from the engine overcame Henry and several of the men. Had they not been removed when they were, the result might have been serious. This was the closest he came to death during his term in the army.
Henry received many orders during his time he was in the war but the saddest one he received was issued to him by the Commanding Colonel of the Regiment, Wm. Lyon, on June 16, 1864, at Claysville, Alabama. Here is what it said: Lieutenant Balis of Company G, will proceed to Nashville with the remains of his brother, Luther Balis, Private of Company G. He will take with him an escort of six men from his company, four of whom he will send back to the Regiment from Woodsville. He will return with all convenient dispatch.
You see his brother Luther had died of malaria at the camp where the disease had been prevalent through the entire summer. Since this was Henry's brother, he was put in charge of taking his body home.
This incident could very well have lowered Henry's spirits, but he kept on with his work, knowing that he would soon be able to return to his family.
Near the close of the year 1864, he was in charge of getting all the weapons turned in so everything would be ready when the order came for them to be discharged.
Henry was in San Antonio when the order came to make out the necessary papers for the mustering out of the outfit. On November 24, he was “mustered out” with the order to report at Madison, Wisconsin to be discharged from the service.
Henry and the others in the Thirteenth Regiment arrived at Madison, Wisconsin at noon on the twenty-third of December, and were discharged from service of the United States on the twenty-sixth.
In a newspaper article written by Chaplain J. I. Foot to show the people what a wonderful job the Thirteenth Regiment had done during the war, he said, “The Thirteenth regiment was made up of men who loved their honor and the right. Though it was not its lot to win glory on fields of battle it has won golden opinions by its stern integrity and unfaltering zeal.”
In this my last salute to my husband I am proud to say that he was one of the men about whom Mr. Foot spoke.
When Henry was issued out of the service the people of Orfordville turned out and presented him with a sword and a belt as tokens of their honor for him and his time spent in the service.
We noticed in the newspaper a short time after Henry had returned home, the tariff which would be used in the exchange of Prisoners of War. For the highest ranking officer – General Commander-in-Chief, sixty men to one, for a man that was in Henry's rank, First Lieutenant, four men to one, and for privates – man to man. This of course isn't the complete list but it will give you an idea of how they exchanged their prisoners of war.
Henry then returned to our farm at Spring Valley where he lived and farmed until now. At this time we owned two eighty acre farms and one forty acre farm.
Looking back into an old diary the Henry kept I find some things that strike me as being very amusing. The things you put in a diary are supposed to be very important, but it seems Henry left out the most important things and put down the little details that attracted his eye. For instance on February 10, 1867 he wrote, “Day warmer and thawing. Bought a cow from Mr. Heall for thirty dollars.” February 27, 1867, “I saw a wolf this side Narcis, fine looking beast.” March 2, 1867, borrowed from Frank Heall three shillings to buy tobacco.” March 12, 1867, “Dr. Fairman called today and bled Mrs. Balis.”
By these snatches I am just trying to show you what kind of a wonderful man Henry was.
_Frederick DEMOUTH __+
| (1787 - 1836)
_Jirah DEMOUTH _____________|
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| |_Susan CRANE ________+
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|_Catherine Malinda KAYHART _|
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|_ VANDERHOOF ________
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Carnot served in the Civil War in the 33rd and the 39th New Jersey infantry. In the listing of American Civil War soldiers his name is spelled Cornet, but I believe it's the same person.
1910 census says he is working as a flour salesman. The family lives at 59 Lincoln St..
Burial info from <http://www.interment.net/data/us/sd/lawrence/moriah/mount_de.htm>
The following is from "Taped Interview with Harry K. Hartley, age 86, 410 Adams Block, Deadwood, South Dakota, July 12, 1969" as reported by Lois Wells Wilson and sent to me by Lonnie Demouth McManus in January 2006.
The De Mouth Family
July 12, 1969
We went to the Museum in Deadwood, seeking background information on Carnot and Theodore De Mouth, my great-grand-uncles. The curator, Kathryn, said that the oldest resident lived across the street. She telephoned and he came over to talk with us. He turned out to be Uncle Carnot's son-in-law. What luck! Harry Hartley talked and we taped his memories:
Mr. Frank De Mothe. I knew his name was really Carnot De Mouth but "Frank" was easier to say and he used that name here. Everybody called him Frank De Mothe. He and his brother Theodore, came out here before the Civil War and had the only store in town, and ran the stagecoach line, and supplied the miners, and brought in the gold to the assay office. They both went back home and served in the war of 1861-1865. They then went to Chicago and were in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. And I guess they came back here right afterwards, before 1876 at least. I don't know the dates now, I don't have them in mind anyway.
And he had this store; as far as I know it was, well, a general store - had furniture and everything else - kind of a bazaar. And the front porch was the stage-coach depot. It was on the first floor of that building across the street. It was called "De Moth's Ark". He did some placer mining and one thing and another at first. Everything in Deadwood dates back to '76. Frank grubstaked a lot of miners. He told me about the little mining claims and how closely they were guarded. People would hear a rumor that some unidentified neighbor was going to start out to a new opening that he had in mind. So they would all watch one another very cautiously and jealously and get ready to follow the other fellow and find out where he was going. Mr. De Mouth said most of these rumors were false. But they would watch one another for weeks at a time, camping beside one another, hoping to find out where gold was to be found. A favorite place was Bear Butte, but they never found any trace of gold there.
That's just a little incident about the mining. I don't think he was connected directly in any mining, financially or anything. Many years later he had a feed store, feed and flour, and was affiliated with the Tri-State people, millers in the locality. Tri-State was, and sti11 is, a large milling concern, now mostly located in Rapid City.
Frank was a Civil War veteran. I believe he was pretty young at the time of the war. But that's about all I know of his early history. He didn't talk about the past very much even as well as I knew him.
He and his wife were buried in Mount Mariah Cemetery. Mrs. De Mothe was. Perla Gilman. The Gilmans came out, not in '76, but maybe '77. And he's the one who engineered and built a great part of the road between Sturgis and Deadwood - the road you may have come over, up through Boulder Canyon. And that was a toll road. He operated that as a toll road there for years.
Now Mr. Gilman's buried up at Mount Mariah, and his wife, Mrs. Gilman, and two brothers of his, all originally in the Gilman lot up there. And when Mr. De Mothe died we buried him in the same lot. And then Mrs. De Mothe, we buried her beside him. Then when Maybelle, my wife, the De Mothe's only child, died, I asked our son and daughter where would be the best place for us to have her buried, and they both wanted her to be buried in the same lot - the lot's rather crowded but she's there. So then, the four Gilmans are up there and Mr. and Mrs. De Mothe, and my wife, my previous wife, Maybelle De Mothe, are all up there in that lot, pretty crowded. Mrs. De Mothe was Episcopal. She belonged to St. John's Guild.
They had perpetual care up there but it was abandoned when they started building a road for tourists down below it. It is actually part of the Homestake mine up there. That hill over there to the right used to be a bald spot but they found a way to grow trees on it. Maybelle got five deeds for houses. Frank and his wife both had a lot of them.
I previously had been very anxious to show friends and distant relatives around the Hills because I like the Black Hills and think a lot of them. I have been in Deadwood since 1910, but last year they wouldn't let me have a license anymore, so it just broke me up, and I said, "If they take my license away, I don't care to live here anymore." Anyway, I had the car, a Buick, which I was very proud of, and gave it to my daughter-inlaw. Our son, Archie Hartley, is now at Colorado Springs, or anyway, in Cheyenne Mountain, where he has his office. He's a representative of the Western Union of NORAD, Combat Operations Center for NORAD. And from his desk out there he has wires directly to the President's office, when he is there. Archie's wife liked the car and would drive us around some, through Colorado, especially. Instead of, well, he always had to go to the mountain every day with the Chrysler, so I asked her if she would like to have my car, and she was very pleased to get it.
I don't know what more to tell you about Mr. De Mothe. The Gilmans' home was directly across the street from our home on Lincoln Avenue. We lived in one of the De Mothe houses up there he had five right there. She died in one of those houses, right across, which has since been torn down. Mrs. Gilman and, I suppose, other Gilmans were born there.
Now that pretty near winds me up. I can't think of anything more. There are little things here that belonged in the De Mothe family. I put them in the museum because people think more of them there.
One is a big copper kettle about bushel size and that is the last thing I brought over here, and I asked Kathryn, who runs this museum if she wanted this old kettle. I don't know of what value it is to a museum. She said yes. I don't know where it is, maybe downstairs in the vault - rather a store room place to chuck things when she doesn't know just where to put them. . . .
Margaret De Muth, eldest child of Jirah and Malinda Carhart De Muth, had her granddaughter, Fay Elsie Lindley, living with her for many years. Fay was overjoyed when Uncle Theo, Margaret's brother came back East from South Dakota on a trip. He had been in Deadwood for many years with his brother, Carnot, who had settled there permanently. Fay asked him all about the wild, wild West and wanted to know if Buffalo Bill had really done all that wild stuff that she had heard' about. Theo said, "Cody was out there a spell, and, being a showman, he had to make things sound exciting, of course." She asked Theo if he had ever had to use a gun. He answered, "I never had to shoot a gun but once." By the time she realized that a good story must have lain hidden behind that answer.. Theo had gone back west to Deadwood and she never saw him again.
Carnot De Moth had sent his sister, Margaret, some commemorative china with scalloped pink borders and, at the center of each plate, an engraving of the Deadwood Stage Coach. On that slim basis, coupled with a few family stories of Carnot's life out there, her great grandchildren convinced themselves and their schoolmates that their greatuncle had been friends with Buffalo Bill and had driven the stagecoach in the picture and had been a pony express rider with Kit Carson. They were sure that he had had to fight off Indians every day of his life. They felt clothed in glamour by the possession of such an exotic relative. When, one day, their great-grandmother told them that greatuncle Carnot was only a quiet businessman, they were stunned and felt quite denuded. It was small consolation to learn that he had genuinely known Kit Carson and that his general store in Deadwood was the stagecoach station.
[11480] the # yrs married is hard to read on the census sheet. I think it says 21.
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|_Abiah VARNUM _______|
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NUTTING, an elderly resident of the village of Loyal, where he and his wife are much esteemed, has been a resident of Loyal Township since 1867, and for many years lived an active and somewhat strenuous life, first as lumberman and afterwards as a pioneer farmer. He was born in the township of Madison, Somerset County, Maine, Jan. 1, 1840, son of Josiah and Abial (Ames) Nutting. Both parents were natives of Maine, in which state they were married, residing there subsequently for about twenty-four years, Josiah working at farming and shoemaking. Four children were born to them: Josiah Marshall, James Melvin, Chandler Baker and Benjamin Franklin (subject of this sketch)., After the death of his wife, Abial, Josiah Nutting came to Clark County, Wis., and here contracted a second marriage. His son, Josiah M., died in Maine. James M., the-second son, came west a few months after his father, and the third son, Chandler B., joined a Maine volunteer cavalry regiment and served through the Civil War.
In the fall of 1860 B. F. Nutting came west alone, locating in La Crosse, Wis., where he was hired as a lumberman to work in the woods. In this kind of work he was engaged for thirty winters, taking part in twenty-six spring drives. At the age of 27 he was married to Josephine Hayden, daughter of William D. and Naomi (Lawrence) Hayden, the marriage taking place July 30, 1867, in Skowhegan, Maine, he having made the trip East for that purpose. Returning to Wisconsin with his wife, Mr. Nutting bought 120 acres of wild land -in Loyal Township, Clark County, also buying a small house, which he moved onto the place. This farm he developed during the summers, getting his supplies from La Crosse. During the twenty-two years that he spent on it he cleared about sixty acres, built an addition onto the house and erected a barn, 40 by 60 feet. He raises cattle, sheep, hogs and horses.
In 1901 he bought a residence in the village and moved to town, where he and his wife are now living in the enjoyment of a well-earned competency. On July 20, 1917, they will celebrate their golden wedding. While on the farm Mr. Nutting served for a number of years as a member of the township board, and as a good citizen, he has always taken an interest in all measures for the benefit of the community in which he resides.
He and his wife have three children: Clifford H., William J. and Dumont H. Clifford H., born in Maine, married Lottie Demouth and lives on a farm in Clark County. He and his wife have four children-Erma, Robert, Reuben and Emma. William J., who was born in Beaver Township, Clark County, married May Smith and resides in that township. He has two children-Naomi and Rudel. Dumont H. married Flossie Greeley and resides in Butternut, Wis. His children are: Franklin, Mildred, Ronald and Josephine. While in the township Mr. Nutting served as a member of the town board. He is a member of the I.O.O.F. of Greenwood. Mrs. Nutting, at one time, was a member of the Rebekah Lodge. The family church is the Methodist.
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| _Thomas DEMOUTH _____+
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|_Electa DEMOUTH _____|
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|_Betsy LEVI _________+
(1799 - 1887)