Note: In 1870 we find that Silas 27 years old, having returned from the Civil War, has married Phoebe Caverlee. They are living in Green Twp., Gallia Co., Ohio, where Silas is a farm laborer. Both of them can read and write. They have a baby girl, Lottie, who is one year old.
The Pritchetts moved to Addison Twp. in Gallia Co. by June of 1880 when the next federal census took place. By then the family had grown to Lottie E. eleven, Aurilla nine, Oliver seven and little Peter W., who is one year old.
Silas works on a farm, but is it his? We learn that Silas' father was born in Virginia and that both of Phoebe's parents were born in New York State.
In 1890 there was a special census which surveyed the surviving soldiers, sailors and marines and widows etc. of the War of Rebellion. Silas was one of those listed. He had been a Private in Company B of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted on July 25, 1862 and was discharged in 1865. He served for two years, ten months and twenty-nine days, and suffered a wound in his left foot.
Phoebe had died before the 1900 census of 25 June when Silas, 54 yrs and widowed, was living in northern Ohio at the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Home. Here it says that his father was born in East Virginia and his mother in Ohio.
Silas was still in the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home in April 1910. At that time it states that his father was born in West Virginia, which means that he was born in the western part of Virginia which became West Virginia at the end of the Civil War.
Military Service
Note: Silas S. Pritchett was a private in Co. B, 91 Regiment, Ohio Infantry. He enlisted on July 25, 1862 and was discharged on June 24, 1865. He served in the Union forces for two years 10 months and 29 days. He was wounded in his left foot.