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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Jacob Pinick, Civil War Letters and Other Material, A&M 0079, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Biographical / Historical Note

The Pinick childreen were separtated when John Pinick (1840-1862) and Louisa (1845-1918) were taken to Wisconsin by their uncle, Edward D. Pinick, and his wife, Mary Jane, in 1854. Jacob Pinick (1841-1930) remained in the Carrol County/Jefferson County area of Ohio where the children's parents, Thomas and Pricilla, had died within months of each other in 1848. Their presumed grandparents, Jacob (1778-1848) and Priscilla Grigsby Pinnick (1783-1848) had died the same year, with these deaths possibly attributed to a cholera epidemic.

When Jacob was left behind in Ohio, he was likely put in the care of John or William McLaughlin, a prominent citizen of the area. No proof of guardianship by McLaughlin has been established, but his brother and sister were definitely under the guardianship of his aunt and uncle while he was not.

Jacob Pinick fought for the Union in the Civil War serving as a first sergeant of Company A, 32nd Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

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Details in this note are based on the research of Steve Pinick, a descendant.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Alabama
• Civil War - Ohio 32nd Infantry, Company A.
• Civil War battles.
• Georgia
• McLaughlin, John.
• McLaughlin, William.
• Mississippi
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Pinick, Jacob
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• Virginia
• Wisconsin