Ellen McKim

Nancy Ellen Cowgill b 3 Jun 1851, d 18 Feb 1915, m ca 1870, Guernsey Co. (?), OH, William McKim, b 17 Mar 1846, OH, d 12 Oct 1909. Not with her mother in Guernsey Co. in 1860. In OH until after 1880, then to AR and MO. Nancy shown as a widow in Shoshone Co., ID, in 1910. William was a veteran of the Civil War, serving as a private in Co H, 40th OH Infantry (enl 18 Oct 1861, mustered in 21 Nov; mustered out 6 Dec 1864, Nashville; and reenlisted 30 Mar 1865 in Co B, 198th OH Infantry, mustering out 8 May 1865 in Baltimore. He applied for Inv pension (appl 609318, cert 487683) 11 May 1887 from OH; she applied for a widow's pension in Feb 1910 from ID (appl 935479, cert 719223). Both bur Oak Lawn Cem., Howell Co., MO. Note: death cert has b 18 Feb 1843, which is unlikely, Cert was filed by a son who did not know much about her past.

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