![]() This in a great hurry from your affectionate friend & Uncle, - W. Please send me a Milwaukee paper likewise. Don’t you think George will be in the midst of them? Now you will be sure to see Willy and I hope you will write back the particulars when and how they left Milwaukee. I shall probably see him before starting. If he should want to send anything back, you will please pack them up in a small box and address them to me at Insane Asylum, Madison. They do not have their uniform till they come to Milwaukee. ![]() And it may be that he may want to leave some of his clothes with you. Gurd’s Company and probably will be on the same train this letter comes by. I write you a line in a hurry just to inform you that Willie is enlisted in the Gov. Mentioned in Bird’s letters are Thomas’ younger siblings, George Rice (b. Thomas Rice graduated from Carroll College at Waukesha and then became a minister of the Welsh Presbyterian Church. He was married to Anna Owen (1832-1914) in February 1862. Rice (1833-1900) who came to Wisconsin from Wales in 1846 with his parents, Roderick Rice (1809-1888) an Mary Griffiths (1808-1892). The facility opened in July 1860.īird wrote all three letters to his nephew, Rev. In 1870, William worked as a launderer and his wife as a house maid at the Insane Asylum in Westport township, Dane county, Wisconsin-positions they presumable started in the early 1860s when these letters were written. K, 20th Wisconsin.Īccording to census records, in 1860 William worked as a teamster in Madison, Wisconsin. Another son, Herbert Roderick Bird (1849-1915) entered the war on 25 August 1862 as a 13 year-old drummer boy in Co. ![]() In September 1864 he was taken prisoner and spent some time in Andersonville Prison but survived the war. K, 1st Wisconsin Infantry for three months service. His son Willie (1843-1917) enlisted on 17 April 1861 in Co. ![]() William mentions two of his sons entering the Wisconsin Volunteers during the Civil War. In 1850, the family resided in Ottawa, Waukesha county, Wisconsin, where William was a farmer. This letter was written by William Bird (1807-1874), a native of Cardinganshire, South Wales, who married Elizabeth Roderick (1807-1893) in 1833 and came to Wisconsin in 1843 with his family. ![]()
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