Nelson Tynes, Company B

After the war, Nelson Tynes settled in Berkley, an incorporated town in Norfolk County. It was annexed by the City of Norfolk in 1906.

Invalid – 652,523 / 497,048

Deposition, Thomas Brooks, 12 July 1890
50 years old, shoemaker, post-office address Berkley, Norfolk Co., Va. … “I have known Nelson Tynes, the claimant since in the early part of the year 1866. … We have been neighbors most of the time.”

Deposition, Nelson Portlock, 12 July 1890
51 years old, farmer, post-office address Great Bridge, Norfolk Co., Va. … “I have known the claimant Nelson Tynes since my earliest recollection.  We were reared in the same neighborhood … he hurt his back while on fatigue duty unloading commissary stores.  I was not on the detail with him at the time but was on camp guard at the time and heard of it at once and that evening.”

Deposition, Stephen Riddick, 12 July 1890
55 years old, laborer, post-office address Berkley, Norfolk Co., Va. … “I have known Nelson Tynes for the past thirty or more years…and since service for the past nineteen years we have lived continuously within hailing distance of each other and we have frequently worked together … he hurt his back while at Brazos Santiago Texas, in August 1865.”

Deposition, Anthony Bearman, 14 July 1890
46 years old, laborer, post-office address Berkley, Norfolk Co., Va. … I have known the claimant, Nelson Tynes from my earliest recollection.  We were reared boys together in the same immediate neighborhood and associated together as play boys and as fellow laborers up to the date of his enlistment in the US Army … When he returned from the army in March 1866 we became neighbors and have been neighbors continuously ever since, and we have worked together at times.”

Deposition, John Coy, 14 July 1890
61 years old, farmer, post-office address Berkley, Norfolk Co., Va. … “I have known the claimant Nelson Tynes for the pass [sic] thirty years and I served with him … a lot of us was detailed [sic] to store up barrels of flour.”

Deposition, Frank Sewall, 14 July 1890
60 years old, brick mason, post-office address Berkley, Norfolk Co., Va. … “I have known and associated with the claimant Nelson Tynes, as a fellow laborer and neighbor continuously for the past sixteen years.”