Aquilla H Amos, I

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• Name	Aquilla H Amos  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Suffix	I
  Born	Abt 1823 York, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Birth	1823 North Carolina, USA [10]
  Birth	1825 Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [5, 7, 9]
  Residence	1860 Ward 4, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [10]  –  Age: 37; Occupation: Servant
  Military	20 Jan 1864 Massachusetts, USA [7, 8]  –  Regiment: 5th Regiment, Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored) Company: E Rank In: Private Rank Out: Sergeant Film Number: M589 roll 2 Memorial: Part of the African American Civil War Memorial Plaque Number: E-151 Displayed As: Aquilla H. Amos
  Military Enlistment	20 Jan 1864 Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA [5, 7, 9]  –  Rank: Private
  Military Muster	10 Feb 1864 Massachusetts, USA [5, 9]  –  Information: Enlisted; MilitaryCompany: E; MilitaryUnit: 854; Regiment: 5th Cavalry; RegimentType: Cavalry
  Military Muster Out	31 Oct 1865 Clarksville City, Gregg, Texas, USA [5, 9]  –  40 Age: 40
  Died	1 Jan 1874 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [3, 11]
  Black Community in the 1840s	14 Sep 1910 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [12]  –  Telegraph Letter Box 14 Sep 1910-Harrisburg's Black Community in the 1840s: Barbers, Water, Julia Stoner. The first Temperance Society, composed of only women. -signed anonymously "CITIZEN"
  Military Rank Change	Promoted to Regimental Color Sergeant. [5, 9]
  Race	Mulatto [10]
  Veteran	​ Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA [5, 7, 8]  –  USCT Civil War: Color Sergt. 5th Mass Colored Cavalry
  Name	Acquilla Amos [10]
  Name	Aquila H, Aqulla H Amos [7]
  Name	Quilla
  Residence	​ Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA [5, 9]  –  Occupation: Barber
  Military Discharge	ServiceNumber: 83796; SideOfWar: Union; SurvivedWar: Yes [5, 9]
  Buried	​ 201 South 30th, Penbrook, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA [2, 5, 9, 11, 13]
  	Lincoln Cemetery
  Notes	My Contribution: I worked quietly to help African Americans by opening my home in Harrisburg as an underground railroad station. I was the grand marshal of an annual parade on August 1 honoring the end of slavery in Haiti. My Legacy: I served with the 5th Regiment in the Massachusetts Colored Cavalry from 1864-1865 during the Civil War. The Amos name is remembered both in my work and in the work of my wife, Annie E. Amos, who championed and spoke for equal rights for African Americans and women. About Me: My “home was an underground railroad station” and I “was often beaten and at one time incarcerated for acts under the fugitive slave law.” - John P. Scott, The Pittsburgh Courier, Annie E. Amos’ Obituary, April 1, 1911. Born about 1823 in Baltimore, Maryland, and was living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, by 1850 working as a barber. He married Ann E. Amos and had two children. Amos enlisted on January 20, 1864, partly in Boston into Co. E of the 5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry during the Civil War. He was about thirty-nine years old at the time of his enlistment and stood about five feet and ten inches tall. In 1865, he was promoted to Regimental Color Sergeant. (By Brenna McKelvey) http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/ node/33422
  Person ID	I164 SOALsearch
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2024

  
  
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  Family	Anna Eliza Williams (Age 86 years) b. 25 Dec 1824, North Carolina, USA d. 25 Mar 1911, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 86 years)
  Children	1. Thomas E Amos (Age 85 years) b. 22 Oct 1843, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 8 Oct 1929, Gibsonia, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 85 years)  [natural]   2. William I Amos (Age 0 years) b. Dec 1850, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 21 Jul 1851, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 0 years)  [natural]   3. James H Amos (Age 0 years) b. 1854, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 9 Oct 1854, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 0 years)  [natural]   4. John W Amos (Age 4 years) b. 1847, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 8 Nov 1851, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 4 years)  [natural]   5. Charles H Amos (Age 0 years) b. 14 Dec 1859, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 16 Dec 1859, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 0 years)  [natural]   6. Maria L Amos (Age 31 years) b. 1844, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 24 Apr 1875, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 31 years)  [natural]   7. Sarah A Amos b. 1852, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA  [natural]   8. Aquilla W Amos, II (Age 14 years) b. 1858, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA d. 26 Jul 1872, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 14 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F68 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [S8] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), 1850 United States Federal Census Record. [S3] U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S65] 1890 Veterans Schedules of the U.S. Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;). [S2] Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1967, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, PA; Pennsylvania (State). Death Certificates, 1906-1968; Certificate Number Range: 096001-099000. [S64] U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, Historical Data Systems, comp, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Historical Data Systems, Inc.; Duxbury, MA 02331; American Civil War Research Database. [S63] U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, National Archives and Records Administration, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;), The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Title: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; NAI Number: T288; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773-2007; Record Group N. [S90] U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1863-1865, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;), The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served with the United States Colored Troops: 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry; Microfilm Serial: M1817; Microfilm Roll: 77. Record for Aquilla H Amos https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1107&h=17767&indiv=try [S91] U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865, National Park Service, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007;). [S194] U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, Historical Data Systems, comp, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Historical Data Systems, Inc.; Duxbury, MA 02331; American Civil War Research Database. Record for Aquilla H Amos https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1555&h=2764160&indiv=try [S16] 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1860; Census Place: Harrisburg Ward 4, Dauphin, Pennsylvania; Page: 1103. Record for Acquilla Amos https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7667&h=1832502&indiv=try [S632] Lincoln Cemetery Grave Markers, Rachael Williams, (Name: SavingOurAncestorsLegacy; Location: Pennsylvania; Date: 2021;), Amos, Aquilla. Gravestone Photographs. Block E. March 2022 restoration in progress. [S2968] Newspapers.com - Harrisburg Telegraph - 14 Sep 1910 - Page 6, (Name: Harrisburg Telegraph; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 14 Sep 1910;), Telegraph Letter Box 14 Sep 1910-Harrisburg's Black Community in the 1840s. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110655345/telegraph-letter-box-14-sep/?xid=637 [S4] Findagrave, (Location: Penbrook, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA; Date: 1885;), Aquila Amos unknown. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82435001/aquila-amos