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Joseph Ives Joslin
Born 26 April 1811, New York State
Died 21 November 1873, Linn County, Iowa
26th April 1811
Joseph Ives Joslin, born in New York State, the son of George Washington Joslin and Rhoda Corey Joslin. Joseph was the fifth child of twelve children.
6th November 1843
Joseph married Philinda Frary on the 6th of November 1843.
Philinda Frary was born on the 28TH of February 1817
in Pawlett, Rutland County, Vermont.
Her parents were David Frary and
Abigail (Wilson) Frary.
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Joseph Ives Joslin
Born 26 April 1811, New York State
Died 21 November 1873, Linn County, Iowa
26th April 1811
Joseph Ives Joslin, born in New York State, the son of George Washington Joslin and Rhoda Corey Joslin. Joseph was the fifth child of twelve children.
6th November 1843
Joseph married Philinda Frary on the 6th of November 1843.
Philinda Frary was born on the 28TH of February 1817
in Pawlett, Rutland County, Vermont.
Her parents were David Frary and
Abigail (Wilson) Frary.
Philinda died on the 4TH September 1893.
3rd August 1844
Joseph and Philinda were blessed with their first child, a daughter and they named her Frances Melora Joslin.
1st November 1845
Philinda and Joseph's are blessed again, their second child is born, a son whom they named George I. Joslin.
22nd February 1847
Joseph and Philinda are blessed with a third child, another son whom they name Theodore Horace Joslin.
11th September 1849
Philinda and Joseph are blessed with a forth child, another son whom they name Milton Bacon Joslin.
1849 or 1850
In about the year 1849 or 1850 Joseph Joslin decided to go west and make his fortune, So leaving his wife and children with either his or his wife's father. He joined the great gold rush and was gone three or four years. His wife Philinda worked at her trade of Tailoring. (Jay Mills said it was Grandpa Frary that Philinda and the children stayed with while Joseph went to look for gold.)
ABT 1852 - 1853
It is told that Joseph succeeded in finding quite an amount of gold. He started for home in the company of another man whom he had befriended. On the way he was stricken with a fever and when it had left him, so had his Partner and also his gold. So he reached home, worn out, sick and broke.
1st September 1854
Joseph and Philinda are blessed with their fifth child, once again a son whom they name him Sidney Newton Joslin.
From ABT 1852 or 1853 to September 1862
Then he began the task of starting over again, at which he must have made pretty good. Land records show he purchased a farm in Benton Township in Lake County on the 21st January 1853. ((he must have moved closer to the lake sometime after the Civil War, because Ora Scanlon Joslin said she remembered her father Sidney Thorp Joslin (Joseph's son) telling her so many things about where his lived in Illinois. One of the things he said his father enjoyed was standing in the barn door and watching the sailing vessels on the lake (Lake Michigan)).
11th August 1862 – 13th August 1863
Then came the Civil War and Joseph signed up to fight on the 11th of August 1862.
He mustered in with the 96th Illinois Infantry Company G at Camp Fuller Illinois on the 6th of September 1862. Ten Companies Formed the Regiment, six from JoDavies County (A, E, F, H and K) and four from Lake County (B, C, D and G). They spent the month of September training, drilling, arming and equipping for the field.
Many of the volunteers were trained at Camp Fuller, established on July 16, 1862, and named in honor of Allen C. Fuller, a Belvidere judge who had become adjutant general of Illinois.
Located on the west bank of the Rock River, the 29-acre tract was bordered roughly by Auburn Street on the north, the Rock River on the east, Guard Street on the south, and Main Street on the west. Four thousand volunteers assembled and were trained there, housed in tents and later in wooden barracks, in the area where even today the streets bear names like National, Sheridan, Ellsworth and Logan.
The residence at 1260 N. Main St., set back from its neighboring homes, served as the Camp Hospital. Built in about 1842, it predated Camp Fuller and is the only building from the Camp Fuller days still standing.
A prominent Rockford lawyer, Col. Jason Marsh, was the first commandant, and the camp consisted of the 74th, 92nd, 95th and 96th regiments. It was a popular picnic location on Sunday afternoons as families visited their sons, husbands, brothers and sweethearts
On the 6th of October 1862 the 96th received orders to hold the men in readiness to move on short notice.
On the 8th October 1862 the 96th received their orders to proceed at once to the defense of Cincinnati, Ohio. At noon the 96th under the command of Colonel Thomas E. Champion was on a train headed for Cincinnati. By midnight of the 10th of October they were at their destination. Crossing the Ohio River on pontoons then reporting to Major General Granger the 96th Illinois Infantry as was assigned a position in the batteries in front of Covington and Newport, Kentucky.
From here they could hear the enemy's guns as they performed their duties. The Regiment was attached to and became a part of the Second Brigade, Third Division of the Army of Kentucky. The Division was under the command of Brigadier General Absalom Baird, of the regular army, and the Brigade under Colonel Cochran, of the Fourteenth Kentucky Infantry.
On the 19th of October 1862, Lieutenant Colonel Isaac L. Clarke, with Companies A, E, F, G and H, was ordered to the front via Falmouth as escort to a commissary train, and on the 29th, Colonel Champion was ordered with the other five companies to proceed to Lexington, Kentucky, which point was reached November 4, the detachment under Lieutenant Colonel Clarke being already there.
Then on the 14th of November 1862, the Regiment moved to Harrodsburg, where it remained guarding rebel prisoners taken at Perryville until the 28th, when it proceeded to join the Division at Danville, leaving Companies A and E under Captain George Hicks, for some six weeks longer.
On the 26th of December 1862, they moved out toward Lebanon Junction to intercept John H. Morgan, but the enemy escaped them. The command returned to Danville, where it remained until the 26th January 1863.
January 26th, 1863 orders were received to join the Army of the Cumberland, near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Tents were immediately struck and the troops, the Second Brigade being then under the command of Colonel Smith D. Atkins, Ninety-second Illinois, marched to Louisville, Ky. Arriving at Louisville.
Then on the 31st of January 1863, the Division embarked on steamers going down the Ohio River to Smithland at the mouth of the Cumberland River, thence up the Cumberland to Nashville, Tenn., under the convoy of gunboats.
Reaching Ft. Donelson the night of February 3 1863, the gunboats were attacked by General Wheeler, who, assaulting the Eighty-third Illinois, then in garrison, was handsomely repulsed. Troops were landed but were not engaged, as the enemy retreated hastily.
The 7th of February 1863, they arrived at Nashville, Tennessee, disembarked on the 8th, and went into camp south of the city, until March 5th 1863, when the Brigade proceeded to Franklin, which was 18 miles to the south. Here they reinforced the First Brigade under John Coburn then engaged at Spring Hill.
From March 9th to 12th of 1863, they skirmished with the enemy under General Van Dorn. Driving Van Dorn south of the Duck River, after which the command returned to camp at Franklin.
On the 27th of March 1863, they were ordered to Brentwood in rear of Franklin, where the Ninety-sixth and Ninety-second Illinois threw up a strong line of field works. After that they returned to Franklin, on the 8th of April 1863. The Brigade was here attacked by General Van Dorn, on the 10th of April, but repulsed with some loss. On the night of the 16th of April 1863, while the Regiment was on picket, Company F was attacked and one man, James M. Scott, killed.
Then on the 2nd of June 1863, the Division marched to Triune, Tennessee, and on the 11th of June they skirmished with the enemy under General Wheeler.
June 14 1863, the Army of Kentucky was reorganized and made a part of the Reserve Corps of the Army of the Cumberland, the Ninety-sixth being assigned to the First Brigade, First Division of said Corps, our commanders being the same, Colonel Smith D. Atkins, of the Ninety-second Illinois, Brigade Commander, Brigadier General A. Baird Division Commander, and Major General Gordon Granger commanding the Corps.
On the 23rd of June 1863, the Division joined the right wing of the Army operating against the rebel forces under General Bragg, passing through Salem, and across Stone River in the face of the enemy and during a terrific storm.
At Walnut Grove Church, the Ninety-sixth was detached to escort a large body of rebel prisoners to the rear. Having delivered the same to the commander at Murfreesboro, the Regiment rejoined its Brigade on the Shelbyville Pike.
Then on the 1st of July 1863, they entered Shelbyville, Tennessee, having driven the enemy out of his strong line of earthworks, through the city and across the Duck River.
On the 3rd of July 1863, they marched to Wartrace, through a heavy storm, and there went into camp.
On the 6th of July 1863, Colonel Smith D. Atkins having secured the assignment of his Regiment to the mounted Infantry, Colonel Thomas E. Champion became the Brigade Commander.
On the 12th of August 1863, the Brigade marched to Elk River, near Estell Springs. General James B. Steedman was here assigned to the command of the Division, General Baird having been granted a leave of absence by reason of ill health, and General Walter C. Whittaker to the command of the Brigade.
The 96th remained at Elk River and vicinity until September 7, when the Ninety-sixth Regiment, together with all the troops of the Reserve Corps that could be spared from guarding the railroad, three and one half Brigades (14 Regiments of Infantry and 3 batteries of Light Artillery) were collected and hurried forward to reinforce General Rosecrans, now south of the Tenn. River.
(Joseph) It was during the Tullahoma Campaign (23 June to 31 August - middle Tennessee) someone made a bad mistake and used the wrong medicine in Joseph's eyes when he had pink eye nearly blinding him. He was discharged as disabled.
(Joseph joined in Waukegan Illinois on the 11th of August 1862 and Mustered in Private at Rockford Illinois on the 6th of September 1862. His military papers list him as a Residence of Benton Township, Lake County, Illinois. The papers state his occupation as a farmer, married and his age as 45. He is listed as a Native of New York State. His papers also list his eyes as being blue, completion as fair, hair as dark, it says he was 5' 9 1/2" tall. Joseph signed up for a standard 3 year enlistment, Isaac L. Clark signed him up. He was discharged for disability on the 13th August 1863 at Nashville, Tennessee,)
In the mean time, Joseph's son George Joslin then only 18 years of age, had left home and enlisted, and stayed in the conflict, until the end of the War.
1864 - Fall
So in the fall of 1864, Joseph's wife Philinda and son Theodore drove a team of horses on a light wagon over and into the state of Iowa, to visit her sister who lived in Clinton County and came up to Linn County where she (Philinda Joslin) purchased an eighty acre farm paying cash for it. This money was made by selling their grain before she started for Iowa
1864 – Late Fall
As soon as possible after her return to Illinois the family started for Iowa with two covered wagons. Philinda and daughter Frances (Fannie) driving, while son Milton and Theodore drove the cattle. Joseph and son Sidney, then a boy of ten years walked and drove a flock of sheep. Of course the cattle and wagons gained so much on the sheep; they would have camp made and supper waiting, when Joseph and Sidney finally caught up. Joseph said twenty miles was the best they could do in a day.
1864 – Late Fall to Winter
When they finally came to the Mississippi River at Clinton, they had to cross on a ferry and had an awful time getting the cattle and sheep aboard. The sheep were so tired when they reached Ellis' (Philinda's sister's husband) that they left them and went on, so they could get settled and prepare for winter. The family living on the farm had neglected to move out so they had to move in with them and make the best of it until spring. As there was no room for the sheep, they had them sold.
1868
Joseph's son Theodore Horace Joslin started out on horse-back for the west when he was 21 years old. He stopped in Endicott, Nebraska and there he married Evalyn Edgington and raised a family of four boys and three girls. Later they all moved to Idaho, but one daughter, Fannie Joslin Dick. Theodore passed away in Idaho.
1873 - 1904
Joseph Joslin lived only about nine years after moving to Iowa. He (Joseph) died on the 21st of November 1873. He is buried in Mills Grove Cemetery, Linn County Iowa. His sons rented the farm from their mother until Sidney Newton Joslin was married (to Addie Pamelia Thorp) and in time bought the farm from his mother, Philinda Frary Joslin. Philinda made her home with her son, Sidney and his wife for about 12 years. She then made her home with her daughter Fannie (Joslin) Mills. Shortly before she died Pilinda had a house built in Coggon and lived there until she got sick. Philinda then went back to live with her daughter, Fannie (Joslin) Mills. Philinda died on the 4TH of September 1893. She is buried in Mills Grove Cemetery, Linn County Iowa, United States of America.
1888
Coggon was formerly known as Nugents Grove and also as Greens Mill. It wasn't called Coggon until after the Illinois Central railroad went through there to Cedar Rapids. The first train went through on July 4th 1888.
1902 - 1942
Sidney sold the farm in 1902. Charles Mills was living in the house in 1937 and the Joslin family held their 2nd reunion there that year. Later the farm was bought by Tom McDonnell. The house was still standing when Ora Joslin Scanlon wrote a short paper entitled "HISTORY OF THE JOSLIN FAMILY", The House is gone now. Ora read the paper at the Joslyn family reunion in 1942. The house was located across the road from Mills Grove Cemetery.
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