ALONZO MARTIN EASTWOOD
Alonzo Eastwood, Old Union Soldier Dies in Winona
(Emmons County Record, March 4, 1898)
 Alonzo Martin Eastwood was born on September 06, 1836 Frontnac, Ontario, Canada. He enlisted in the Civil War in the 14th Wisconsin Infantry in September 23, 1861. The regiment served in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. They fought in the Battle of Shiloh, Iuta, Corinth, and the Siege of Vicksburg. At some point Eastwood was captured, and is recorded in the Confederate Prisoners of War Rolls. He was mustered out January 1865. In October 1869 he married Ellen M. McNulty (1848), and had 5 children. They resided in Sioux Valley, South Dakota. Ellen McNulty died there in 1887 [Burial].
Alonzo Eastwood died in Winona on February 20, 1898. It may have been at the home of his son, John Eastwood, (1872-1957) or daughter Anna Salome Eastwood McConville, (1875-1937) married to Edward McConville, at the Elkhorn Ranch, as both children resided in Emmons County.
He was buried at Ft. Yates, Sioux Co. ND in the St. Peter's Catholic Cemetery.
(Sources: Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Volume 1.
U.S. 1890 Census: Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, June 1890; Sioux Valley, SD; SD 1; ED 389: pg 1; line 11.
U.S. Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963 for Alonzo M. Eastwood; #43172.)
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The above was prepared and contributed by Mary E. Corcoran.
From the Union County, South Dakota Biography, 1884, a transcription of the biographical information for Union County as found in A. T. Andreas' "Historical Atlas of Dakota", 1884:
"A. M. EASTWOOD, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 27, Town [sic - Township] 93, Range 49, P. O. Akron, Iowa, located in Dakota in 1870. He has a farm of 160 acres – the south half of the northeast quarter and the north half of the southeast quarter of Section 27. Forty acres are under cultivation. His average yield of corn is forty bushels to the acre. Mr. Eastwood was born in Frontenac County, Ontario, in 1837. He moved to Wisconsin in 1849, and resided there until coming to Dakota. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in Company G, Forty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served three years."
Alonzo's father is unknown but Alonzo's census reports indicate his father was born in New York. Alonzo's mother is residing with him in 1880 when his family [Ellen, Elizabeth, John, and Anna] was living in Sioux Valley, Union County, South Dakota. Her handwritten name in the census is difficult to read but looks similar to Salome which is the middle name of one of Alonzo's daughters. Salome was born in Massachusetts ~1793. It is unknown for sure when Alonzo immigrated from Canada although he was in Wisconsin by September 1861. The South Dakota biography indicates he arrived in 1849 but this writer could not find him in 1850 and 1860 census reports. He remained in America although one son, James, went back to Canada later in life after residing in South Dakota and Montana.
Ellen was born on 3 February 1848 in Illinois to James and Rose Anna Bryan McNulty. Her known siblings were Martin (1844), Anne (1849), Anthony (1854), John (1856), James (1858), and Bernard (1859).
Their marriage is recorded in Wisconsin County Marriages 1836-1911 as being in Manitowoc, Manitowoc County on 24 October 1869. The record shows Ellen as Helena McNolte.
Alonzo and Ellen's known children; Elizabeth Eleanor, John, Anna Salome - [McConville Family], and James Edward.
As indicated above Alonzo served in the Civil War. He was in Company G. He enliste at Eaton, Brown County, Wisconsin and mustered out on 30 June 1865 at war's end. He started receiving a pension in Iowa [Akron, Iowa is on the border and as mentioned earlier it was Alonzo's mail address. No record could be found of a residence there.]in April 1890. He was on the June 1890 Veterans Schedule as living in Sioux Valley, Union County, South Dakota. In June 1929 his daughter Anna ordered a veterans tombstone which was installed in July 1930.
There is more information on Alonzo at the Sioux County website.
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