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Pinkney Lewis Bone
Pinkney Lewis Bone (named for Methodist Rev.
Pinkney Lewis) was born 10/12/44 in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County,
Ohio, where he lived until the Civil War. Bone, a shoemaker by
occupation, enlisted as a Musician on 8/7/62. On August 21st, he was
mustered in to Company B of the 52nd OVI. Serving as a drummer boy and
stretcher bearer during the war, Bone was the winner of a Division
level drumming contest, earning an award of a drum with transparent
heads and sticks mounted in silver with his name engraved. According to the regimental history of the 52nd OVI, published by Nixon B. Stewart in 1900, Bone also played the cymbals in the regimental band. He was
mustered out at Washington, DC on 6/3/65.
Following the war, Pinkney Bone returned to Mount Pleasant where he operated a grocery store (still in existance and now a museum) for more than sixty years. He married Sarah Jane Coleman in 1875, with whom he fathered six children. In June of 1880, Bone was granted a pension of $4.00 a month due to a lesion of the brain he suffered from the explosion of a shell during the war. Pinkney Bone was active in the Updegraff GAR Post in Mount Pleasant and marched in many parades and Decoration Day ceremonies until his death in 1934. Bone is buried in Highland Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Detailed Records
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