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FROM: Paper titled The Chester Family, author unknown in possession of Norbert Chester. Probably from a centennial county history book. HORACE LOUCKS After his marriage Horace Loucks continued as a Erie County farmer until 1875, then went ot Missouri, but in the following year returned east as far as Allen County, Indiana, and there the wife and mother died in 1893 when past sixty years of age, Horace Loucks afterwards returned to Ohio and spent his last years in the state Soldiers' Home, where his death occured on the October 14, 1912, when past eighty-two years of age. He had enlisted as a soldier during the Cival War, being enrolled in Company F of the One Hundredth and Twenty-eight Ohio Volunteer Infantry under Captian Mead. He was assigned to duty as a guard for the rebel soldiers on Johnson's Island, near Sandusky, in Lake Erie, this island having been early secured by the government as headquarters for Confederate prosoners. He was in the service until the end of the war, being mustered out at Camp Cleveland by Captian Douglas the United States mustering out officer, on July 13, 1865. END OF ARTICLE