A. C. Hulse born September 23, 1835 Washington Co TN, died May 15, 1919 Adams Co IL, son of William Keen and Hannah Cox Hulse.
Hannah born 1811, died 1875, buried in Old Union Cemetery, Palmyra Macoupin County IL.
married Oct 2, 1856 in Macoupin County IL to Martha A. Ross born June 25, 1840, died June 30, 1915, buried Oak Hill Cemetery, North Palmyra Twp, Macoupin County IL; Martha married 2nd September 26, 1896, Morgan County IL to Dempsey M. Solomon, Vol D, p104, license #6293
married 2nd June 8, 1898 in Macoupin County IL to Mrs. Dora T. Meteer Baldwin
Children:
1. Mary Rosella born about 1857, married Sept 9, 1875 in Macoupin County IL to Charles L. Davis, ledger 05, page 111 cert no. 8553
2. Catherine or Hannah C. born about 1859 married Elijah Etter
3. William R. December 2, 1860, Palmyra Macoupin County IL, married Jan 26, 1881 in Macoupin County IL to Mattie Lou Mayfield, p 0237, cert. no. 00002604
4. Robert S. born about 1866, married Alice Tappan
5. Charles Abraham died in infancy
Other Information from Glenn Land:
Member of GAR Post # 339 (Dan Messick) in Carlinville, IL
died 5/14/1919
After the War he lived in Quincy, IL
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Illinois: Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men
- GAR Dept of Illinois: Death Rolls
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Glenn Land wrote, "The tragedy of Abraham's family is typical to what happened to our great country north and south. He left east Tennessee in the 1850's and probably never saw his father and brothers again. His younger brother Thomas enlisted in what would become company E of the Confederate 26th Tenn Inf. on July 5,1861 at Knoxville,Tennessee. He died of disease Dec. 8, 1861 at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Only 19 years old. He is named on the " Roll of Honor " for the 26th Tennessee and probably never fired a shot in combat. The oldest brother, John W. had tried to join the army in the Mexican War but they sent him home for underage. He joined company E 60th Tennessee Sept. 25, 1862. He died of diphtheria Dec. 17, 1862 at the Confederate General Hospital, Mobile, Alabama. and is buried in Magnolia Cemetery there. Their father William, born in 1806, along with John volunteered in 1862 but was sent home due to his age. However, in February 1863, in exchange for 66 acres of land he agreed to enter the southern army as a replacement for man about to be conscripted! He was captured at Big Black River May 17, 1863. and died at Camp Morton, Indiana, July 2, 1863. He is mistakenly listed on the monument there as William R. Hulse. The brother's mother, Hannah Cox was a sister to my 3 x maternal great-grandfather and my 3rd great grand aunt. Abraham returned to Tennessee following the war and took his mother home with him to Illinois."
History of Macoupin County Illinois, 1763-1879, Brink,
McDonough & Co.
Captain A. C. Hulse
Was born in East Tennessee, September 23, 1835. His father, W.
K. Hulse, was a native of Tennessee, and a carpenter by trade.
At the age of eighteen Mr. Hulse turned his face westward and
after travelling around some time located in Palmyra, and went
into the blacksmith trade; a vocation he has since followed at
that place. October 2, 1856, he was united in marriage to Miss
Martha A. Ross, daughter of Robert Ross, of Macoupin County.
They have raised a family of four children. In 1862, when this
country was at fever heat in consequence of the late civil
war, Mr. Hulse turned the key on his blacksmith shop, bid his
family farewell, and enlisted in the 122d regiment, under Col.
Rinaker. He was elected second lieutenant of company E, a
position he held until April 3, 1863, when he was promoted
captain of his company. He received this promotion over the
first lieutenant of his company, which position he held until
the close-of-the war. He was in all the hard-fought battles
incident to this regiment's campaign through the war. He was
never wounded, under arrest or reprimanded while he was in the
service. At the close of the war he returned to his home, in
Palmyra, where he has since resided. Captain Hulse has always
adhered to the principles of democracy; he cast his first vote
for James Buchanan, and has ever since voted the democratic
ticket. He went into war believing that "the first principle
of democracy was to sustain the government." He is highly
respected as an energetic and honest man, a good neighbor, and
a worthy and patriotic citizen.
Biographical Record of Leading Citizens of Macoupin County
Illinois, Richmond and Arnold, Chicago IL, 1904
From the Bio for Abraham C. Hulse's son W. R. Hulse p. 41
W. R. Hulse
W. R. Hulse, one of the best known citizens of Carlinville,
Macoupin County Illinois, is extensively engaged in real
estate, abstract and insurance business, which he has followed
successfully for many years. He is one of the most energetic
and enterprising men of the city, and has done much to aid its
development and progress. He was born in Palmyra, Macoupin
County, December 2, 1860, and is a son of Capt. Abraham C. and
Martha A. (Ross) Hulse, and grandson of W. K. and Hannah (Cox)
Hulse, both of the last named being natives of Tennessee. His
maternal great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary
War.
W. K. Hulse, the grandfather, was a mechanic and spent many
years in constructing flat-boats which were piloted down the
river laden with produce for city markets. He served in the
Confederate Army, was taken prisoner and sent to Sandusky,
Ohio, where he was confined to military prison. He and his
wife were parents of the following children; Sarah; John W.;
W. A., a physician and surgeon; Caroline; Capt. Abraham C.;
Polly A.; Thomas, a soldier in the Confederate Army, who was
wounded at the battle of Bull Run and died from the effects of
his injury; Elizabeth; Louisa; and Elvira.
Capt. Abraham C. Hulse was born in Eastern Tennessee,
September 23, 1835, and there passed his boyhood days. In
1853, he came to Illinois and followed his trade as a
blacksmith until the Civil War was in progress, when in
August, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, 122d Reg., Illinois
Vol. Inf., as a private. He was promoted to 2d lieutenant, and
later for meritorious conduct on the field of battle was
commissioned a captain. He was serving with that rank when the
war closed in 1865, participating in the last engagement of
the war at Fort Blakely, Alabama. He again returned to
Carlinville where he opened his blacksmith shop and carried on
business until 1882. In that year he was elected Sheriff (1882-1886)
of Macoupin County on the Democratic ticket, and served
efficiently for a period of four years. After the expiration
of his term, he turned his attention to raising standard bred
horses, and this he has followed successfully up to the
present time. He is a man representative of the best type of
citizenship, and has many friends throughout the county. He
and his wife reared the following children: Rosella,
Catherine, W. R. and R. S.
W. R. Hulse, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the
common schools of this county and at Blackburn University from
which he was graduated in the class of 1884. Prior to entering
college, he taught school one term, and upon leaving served as
deputy sheriff under his father during 1885 and 1886. He read
law in the office of Hon. C. A. Walker and was admitted to the
bar in 1887. One year later he formed a partnership with B. M.
Burke in the real estate, abstract and insurance business,
which continued until 1890, when our subject purchased his
partner's interest in the business. He has since carried on
this business by himself, and has attained a high degree of
success, particularly in the real estate branch of the
business. He has won the title of "Hulse the Hustler," and
well may the term be applied, for no man in Macoupin County
puts more energy in his work than he. He is well known for his
business integrity and the straightforward methods which
charaterize his every transaction. He represents seven fire
insurance companies.
On January 26, 1888, Mr. Hulse was joined in marriage with
Mattie L. Mayfield, a daughter of Alfred S. Mayfield, formerly
clerk of the Circuit Court for eight years. Mrs Hulse
graduated from the Illinois Female College at Jacksonville now
known as the Illinois Woman's College. She also received a
degree from the University of Chicago, for a course in English
that she completed. To Mr. and Mrs. Hulse were born two
children: Sidney D., deceased; and William M. Religiously, the
family are of the Methodist faith. Our subject is a Democrat,
and during the last campaign was president of the Carlinville
Democratic Club. He is prominent member of Mount Nebo Lodge,
No. 76, A. F. & A. M.
History of Macoupin County, Illinois : biographical and
pictorial. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1911.
Page 504
CAPTAIN ABRAHAM C. HULSE
The Civil war passed into history as one of the most important
struggles mankind has known and the men who participated for
the Union will ever be regarded with reverance and honor by
lovers of liberty. One of the anomalies of the war was the
division of families occasioned by difference of opinion as to
the cause and object of the great conflict, brothers being in
many instances arrated against brothers and father against
sons. Captain Abraham C. Hulse belonged to a family of this
kind, his father and brothers fighting for the south, while he
donned the uniform of the blue and upheld the stars and
stripes. Each was thoroughly conscientious at the time and
performed his duty as he saw it. The crucible of years was
shown that Captain Hulse was right.
He was born in Washington county. East Tennessee, September
23, 1835, a son of William K. and Hannah (Cox) Hulse, both of
whom were natives of Tennessee. They were the parents of
eleven children, one of whom died in infancy, the others
being; Sarah, who married Jessie Baines and is now deceased;
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page 506 is blank
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John W., who was a Confederate soldier and is also deceased;
Dr. William., who is deceased; Caroline, who became the wife
of James Wheelock and is deceased; Abraham C.; Thomas, who was
also a Confederate soldier and is now deceased; Polly, the
wife of Franklin Hulse, of Jonesboro, Tennessee; Elizabeth,
who married Joseph F. Galloway, of Palmyra, Illinois; Louisa,
now Mrs. William J. Solomon, also of Palmyra; and Elvira, the
wife of Nelson Chase, of Palmyra.
The father of our subject was reared in Tennessee and learned
the carpenter and joiner's trade, becoming a flatboat builder
and also a pilot on the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers. At
the time of the Civil war he was colonel of a confederate
regiment. He was captured at Black River Bridge and imprisoned
at Sandusky, Ohio, dying in prison when he was about sixty
years of age. His wife died shortly after the close of the
war, being then about fifty-five years of age. They were both
members of the Methodist church. Mr. Hulse served as colonel
of the State Militia of Tennessee previous to the war. The
paternal grandfather of our subject was William Hulse, who was
Scotch-Irish and Dutch descent. He lived in Sullivan county,
East Tennessee, and was a millwright by trade. He built a mill
on his own account and owned considerable body of land in
Sullivan county. he was married to a Miss Keen and lost his
property at the time of the Civil war. his father was Wilhelm
Hultz (as the name originally spelled), who came from Holland
and died in Tennessee. The grandfather on the maternal side
was John Cox. He was of Irish descent and his wife was a Miss
Job, who traced her ancestry to France. They both died in
Tennessee.
Abraham C. Hulse was reared on his father's farm close to the
line of Washington and Sullivan counties, Tennessee, until
eighteen years of age and received only limited advantages of
education. In 1853 he came to Illinois and took up his
residence at Old Cummington, now Palmyra, in Macoupin County,
working at the trades of blacksmith and wagon making until
twenty-seven years of age. He then enlisted in Company E, One
Hundred and twenty-second Illinois Volunteers, uner General
John I. Rinaker, record of whom appears elsewhere in this
work, and served in this regiment until the close of the war,
participating in many hard-fought battles and rigorous
campaigns. He entered the army as second lieutenant and was
promoted to captain on the battlefield at Parker's Cross
Roads, Tennessee, for gallant and meritorious conduct. After
receiving his honorable discharge he returned to Macoupin
County and engaged in blacksmithing at Palmyra until 1882. He
was then elected sheriff of the county and served to general
satisfaction of the people for four years. After retiring from
office he returned his attention to breeding standard-bred
horses and followed this occupation successfully for a number
of years. On the 1st of April 1911, he was elected city
marshal of Carlinville, an office he now fills.
In October, 1855, Captain Hulse was married to Miss Martha
Ross, a daughter of Robert and Mary (Hunt) Ross, and to this
union five children were born. Rosella married Charles Davis
and resides at Salem, Oregon. Catharine is the wife of Elijah
Etter, an attorney of Waverly, Illinois,, and the mother of
one son Robert. William R., is an abstractor and is engaged in
the real-estate business at Carlinville. Robert S., a farmer
of Oklahoma, married Alice Tappin and they have two children,
Harry and Lee. Charles Abraham, the youngest of
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the children of Captain and Mrs. Hulse died in infancy.
Captain Hulse's present wife was Mrs. Dora Baldwin, widow of
Thomas J. Baldwin and the mother of five children by her first
marriage, namely: Orville, deaceased; Roy; Roscoe, who married
Lucy Mant and is the father of three children, Daniel, R.C.
and Lee; Maude, who married Isaac Van Zandt, of Fort Worth,
Texas, by whom she has three children; and Lottie, who married
Elmer Barrows, of Girard, Illinois, and has one son, Orville
Edwin.
Captain Hulse and his wife are both members of the Christian
Church, of which he is a steward. Politically he gives his
support to the democratic party and fraternally he holds
membership in Mount Nebo Lodge, No. 76, A.F. & A.M.;
Macoupin Chapter, No. 187, R.A.M.; and is also a member of Dan
Messick Post, G.A.R. The esteem in which he is held by his
army comrades was shown by his election for two terms as
commander of the post. Captain Hulse is greatly interested in
the community in which he lives and has often demonstrated
this interest by personal service in behalf of those less
fortunate than himself. A true soldier when the life of the
republic was imperiled, he is a patriotic, capable and
progressive citizen, and it would be difficult to name a man
in Macoupin county who stands higher in the respect of the
people than the one whose name introduces this sketch.