Roscius Shirts
1843 - 1907 (63 years)
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Name Roscius Shirts Birth 20 Oct 1843 Vermillion County, IN 
Gender Male Death 15 Jul 1907 NE Burial Tabor, Mills, IA - Roscius Shirts
BIRTH 20 Oct 1843
Indiana, USA
DEATH 15 Jul 1907 (aged 63)
Bartlett, Fremont County, Iowa, USA
BURIAL Tabor Cemetery
Tabor, Mills County, Iowa, USA
PLOT Per the Tabor Cemetery book he's buried somewhere in the area of Plot 211
Military marker headstone installed October 2017. Until this time, there had never been a marker on his grave because his identity in this cemetery had not been known. Now that documents have been located proving he is buried here, his grandson was able to have his military marker installed.
Person ID I12355 Drollinger Genealogy Last Modified 30 Aug 2021
Father Sidney Dale Shirts, b. 1820, NY d. 1893, Camp, Polk, IA (Age 73 years) Mother Anna Trullinger, b. 27 Jul 1820, Indiana d. 6 Oct 1902, Polk County, IA (Age 82 years) Family ID F3956 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Virginia Freel, b. 6 Dec 1847, Iowa City, Wright, IA d. 9 Mar 1876, Polk City, Polk, IA (Age 28 years) Marriage 11 Oct 1865 Polk City, Polk, IA Children 1. Mary Ellen Shirts, b. 10 Aug 1866, KS d. 1 Oct 1948, Polk City, Polk, IA (Age 82 years)2. Eli Shirts, b. 1867, Polk City, Polk, IA d. 1880 (Age 13 years)3. Anna Elizabeth Shirts, b. 5 Aug 1871, Topeka, Shawnee, KS d. 12 Feb 1961, Weiser, Washington, ID (Age 89 years)4. L. A. Shirts, b. 1872, KS d. 1875, Grenada, KS (Age 3 years)5. Martha Shirts, b. 12 Mar 1874, KS d. 28 May 1963, Payette, Canyon, ID (Age 89 years)Family ID F3958 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 14 Mar 2016
Family 2 Sarah Sallie Zachary, b. 17 Apr 1848, Knox, TN d. Dec 1908, Cambridge, Washington, ID (Age 60 years) Marriage 9 Oct 1876 Polk County, IA - Rescuis in the Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940
Name: Rescuis
Gender: Male
Spouse: Sarah
Child: Robert B Shirts
Children 1. Rosa Shirts, b. 19 Jan 1879, Polk County, IA d. 4 Mar 1953, Portland, Multnomah, OR (Age 74 years)2. Unknown Shirts 3. Robert Benjamin Shirts, b. 23 Jun 1883, Polk County, IA d. 21 Oct 1952, Weiser, Washington, ID (Age 69 years)4. Harris Shirts, b. 1 Oct 1886, Sheldahl, Polk, IA d. 14 Jul 1960, Parma, Canyon, ID (Age 73 years)5. Belle Shirts, b. 19 Jun 1889, Polk County, IA d. 20 Jan 1914, Washington County, ID (Age 24 years)Family ID F13842 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 14 Mar 2016
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Event Map 
Birth - 20 Oct 1843 - Vermillion County, IN 
Marriage - 11 Oct 1865 - Polk City, Polk, IA 
Marriage - 9 Oct 1876 - Polk County, IA 
Death - 15 Jul 1907 - NE = Link to Google Earth
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Photos Circa 1862
Photo courtesy L. L. F. who originally shared this photo on 12 Jan 2021 to his record on Ancestry.com Family Trees.
Documents 
The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) published 20 July 1907 page 3
Headstones 
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Notes - Per his Civil War pension file from the National Archives in Washington DC, Roscius enrolled as a Private in Company C of the 23rd Iowa Infantry on August 6th, 1862. He was detailed as a scout 29 January 1864 and captured by the enemy on 22 February 1864. He returned from being a prisoner of war on 9 August 1864. His prisoner of war records show him "Captured at Lavacca February 22, 1864 and paroled at Red River Lodge, Louisiana, July 22, 1864." He was honorably discharged on 26 July 1865. He met with an unfortunate death after visiting his sister on his re turn trip home to Idaho. He drowned in the Missouri River near Bartlett Iowa and was buried at Tabor Cemetery (Mills County) Iowa.
Information obtained from the Fremont County Historical Society from a book on Tabor Cemetery indicates that "R. Shirts buried somewhere near lot 211" and that he was found drowned in the Missouri River on 15 July 1907, believed to be about 65, was wearing a Union Jacket and had a railroad ticket in his pocket identified with the name R. Shurts. "Names of two sisters were learned one of whom he had been visiting." He was given a military burial. Years later, the WPA misidentified him as a Robert Shirts, which in 1980 was found to be false, as that particular Robert Shirts was buried elsewhere. The Tabor Cemetery book states that "the military status of R. Shirts buried in Tabor is unknown."
So the whereabouts of Roscius Shirt's burial place had remained a mystery until today, 2 March 2017. The case is now solved and Roscius now has a military marker memorializing his life and death.
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Roscius served in the civil war with C Co, 23rd Iowa Infantry. He enlisted in Adelphi, IA 6 Aug 1862 and was ets-ed 26 July 1865 in Harrisburg TX
Upon completing his military service, he returned to Iowa and married Virginia "Jennie" Freel (b 6 Dec 1847, IN) on 11 Oct 1865.
- Per his Civil War pension file from the National Archives in Washington DC, Roscius enrolled as a Private in Company C of the 23rd Iowa Infantry on August 6th, 1862. He was detailed as a scout 29 January 1864 and captured by the enemy on 22 February 1864. He returned from being a prisoner of war on 9 August 1864. His prisoner of war records show him "Captured at Lavacca February 22, 1864 and paroled at Red River Lodge, Louisiana, July 22, 1864." He was honorably discharged on 26 July 1865. He met with an unfortunate death after visiting his sister on his re turn trip home to Idaho. He drowned in the Missouri River near Bartlett Iowa and was buried at Tabor Cemetery (Mills County) Iowa.