Elizabeth Storm ^{1 3}

  Death Notes:

Her son was born in 1865.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1860 US Census in Jasper Township, Jasper County, MO on 26 July 1860. ³

1860 US Census
Page 151, Dwelling 1028, Family 1003, Roll 624
Jasper Township, Jasper County, Missouri
Elizabeth Drugan..28..IN

(Living with husband and her daughter from a previous marriage at the home of her parents.)
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Elizabeth married Cramer before 1858. (Cramer was born about 1827 and died on an unknown date.)

Elizabeth next married Thomas Drugan, son of Andrew Drugan and Mary Loughran, on 28 May 1858 in , Jasper County, MO.^{1 2} (Thomas Drugan was born in 1833 in Clogher Parish, County Tyrone, Ulster, IRELAND ^{2 3} and died after 1865.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1860 US Census in Jasper Township, Jasper County, MO on 26 July 1860. ³

1860 US Census
Page 151, Dwelling 1028, Family 1003, Roll 624
Jasper Township, Jasper County, Missouri
Peter L. Storms..56..KY..Farmer
Jane Storms..54..NC
Isaac N. Storms..23..IN..Farm Laborer
William D. Storms..21..IN..Farm Laborer
George W. Storms..19..IN..Farm Laborer
Peter Storms..17..IN..Farm Laborer
Susanna Storms..15..IN
John J. Storms..13..IN
Thomas Drugan..27..IRE..Farmer
Elizabeth Drugan..28..IN
Catherine Cramer..3..MO

NOTE - Thomas and Elizabeth were living with her parents. Catherine was Elizabeth's daughter from a previous marriage.
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  Marriage Notes:

Name: Thomas Drugan
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Storm
Event Date: 25 May 1858
Event Place: Jasper,Missouri

Citing this Record
"Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V28J-Q5H : 11 February 2018), Thomas Drugan and Elizabeth Storm, 25 May 1858; citing Jasper,Missouri; FHL microfilm 930,887.
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There is no information about what happened to Thomas and Elizabeth following his enlistment for military duty in the CSA. By 1865 Elizabeth was living in Arkansas where she gave birth to Constantine and it is not known if Thomas was alive at the time. By 1870, even Elizabeth disappeared from the scene and Constantine was living with his grandmother, Jane Burch-Storm back in Missouri according to the 1870 census records. In 1880 it appears that their son Constantine had moved to Indiana and at the age of 17 was living with and working as a "chore boy" for another family in Greene County, Indiana. This suggests that perhaps both of his parents were killed in the Civil War. One of the reasons that he moved back to Greene County, Indiana is that his mother and all her siblings were born there.
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In October 2014, Beth Tuck Beth Tuck <tuckea1@gmail.com> provided the following information about Thomas Drugan and Elizabeth Storm:

Three of Peter Lunsford Storm's sons (James B., Isaac, & Peter L. Jr.) and his Thomas DRUGAN enlisted to fight for the Confederacy. Remarkably all four lived to the end of the war. Peter would have been nearly 60 at the start of the war, but his age did not keep him out of the conflict. According to "1883 History of Jasper County, Missouri", Peter L. STORM was "killed by Federals at his house near Galesburg" and his son William was also "killed by the Federals" near the Center Creek Mines in 1864. Though no date was given for Peter's murder it can be assumed to have taken place between 1861 and 1864. Peter is assumed to have been buried on his own property near Galesburg. No tombstone has been recorded.

What I pieced together was that Thomas Drugan, Isaac Storm and James Storm enlisted in the summer of 1862. They seem to have enlisted in Arkansas. All of them are associated with Coffee's Regiment of Calvary at some point. Sometimes it's called Missouri Calvary, sometimes Arkansas Calvary. The name of the unit fluctuates throughout the war (Coffee was court marshaled a few times) and our men seem to move between units. You see the unit names Thomas Drugan is associated with below.

BATTLE UNIT NAME: Coffee's Regiment, Missouri Cavalry (http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CMOCOFFRC)
SIDE: Confederacy
COMPANY: F
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Private
SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Private
FILM NUMBER: M380 ROLL 4

The Storms are also associated with the 27th Arkansas Infantry. Both units formed in northern Arkansas in the summer of 1862. At one point I saw Isaac and James on a list of deserters, but that could be the confusion of units breaking up and reforming as much as anything. I want to say that Fold3 had records of Confederate soldiers who were present to surrender in 1865. The cards didn't have much more than their names and the unit they were part of at the time of surrender. I'm positive I saw digital copies of the cards somewhere and having exhausted the other possibilities I'm pretty sure it's Fold3. I want to say the top of the cards were filled in with the names in longhand and that at the bottom of the card was printed in tiny print an agreement to cease hostilities. It was a loyalty oath in effect. I believe Thomas Drugan was one of the ones with a card, and that's why I concluded they all survived the war, but I guess my memory isn't good enough to swear to it now. I do remember Peter L. Storm Jr had a card, because he seems to have enlisted later than the others. John Storm may have also enlisted, but the name is too common for me to be sure he's the John Storm in my family.

I don't know who Elizabeth stayed with while her husband was at war, but her child, Constantine, was born in Arkansas around 1865. With Peter Storm Sr. getting shot in his own yard and William Storm shot not far from home, it's quite possible the entire family was forced off the property at various times. Of course I have no idea what happened to Thomas & Elizabeth after 1865 but I did look for them in all the places the rest of the family disbursed to.

So I guess you might want to get the free trial membership on Fold3 and see how accurate my memory is. You probably deal with this all the time but I always have to search every possible spelling of Drugan, Drogan, Dragon, Druggun, etc. And when looking for Storm you also need to search Storms.

If I turn up anything else I will let you know, and if you should know what happened to Constantine I'd be really interested in hearing it.
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