Abe appears in Boone County Kentucky where he married Mary Elizabeth Deer on the 16th of October 1862. Two years later at the age of 24, he was drafted and served in the 55th KY Volunteer Infantry from Boone County. 

He is listed on the Company Muster-in Descriptive Roll dated 14 Nov 1864 at Covington, KY as a farmer, with blue eyes, light hair and complexion and five foot five inches in height.

Abraham died 13 February 1896 in Burlington, Boone County, Kentucky, and is laid to rest at the Burlington I.O.O.F. Cemetery, as is his wife Mary (Deer).

1. ELLEN SLAYBACK - born 21 Dec 1865, Petersburg, Boone Co., KY; died 31 Oct 1931,Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio. She married HENRY M. HALL on 14 Nov 1880, Boone County, Kentucky; he having been born in Alabama in October of 1842, and died 29 Dec 1913 in Jefferson Co., Alabama. He is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Bessemer, Jefferson Co., Alabama, in the Hall Family Plot with his son and daughter-in-law, George and Mamie (Eastham) Hall. Ellen is laid to rest at Maple Grove Cemetery in Cleves, Hamilton County, Ohio. Also buried here is daughter Helen (Hall) Siegler Balsley; granddaughter Lola M. (Siegler) Hodgetts and husband John V. Hodgetts; son-in-law Joseph A. Balsey; daughter Louise (Hall) Craig; daughter Mary (Hall) Wadkins Bohlander and her first husband Louis Henry Wadkins.
2. JOSEPH "WILLIAM" SLAYBACK - born in August 1866, Burlington, Boone Co., KY; died July 1943; married HESTER KOONS on 21 Sep 1884, Boone Co., KY; born 22 Aug 1865 in Boone Co., Kentucky; died 04 Mar 1938.  Joseph and wife buried Eastview Cemetery, Patriot, Switzerland Co., Indiana. 
3. JONAS SLAYBACK - born 01 Feb 1868, Boone Co., KY; died 26 Oct 1946; married EFFIE BELLE LONAKER 26 Dec 1887, Boone Co., KY; born 07 Dec 1870, Falmouth, Pendleton Co., KY; died 15 Feb 1937.  Jonas and wife  buried in Mt. Sinai, Dearborn Co., Indiana.
4. BENJAMIN F. SLAYBACK - born November 1868, Boone Co., KY; died before 02 May 1936; married (1)EVA WINKLE on 11 Feb 1889, Ohio County, IN; married (2) LUDIE MCGUIRE on 29 June 1895 in Ohio County, Indiana; born Boone Co., Kentucky; died before 24 Feb 1923.
5. MARIETTA "MARY" V. SLAYBACK - born 15 Feb 1869 in Boone Co., KY; died 24 Dec 1948, Addyston, Hamilton Co., Ohio; married JOHN JASPER KOONS on 25 Jul 1886, Boone Co., KY; born 18 Mar 1854, Boone Co., KY; died 02 Feb 1924, Addyston, Hamilton Co., Ohio.
6. JOHN EDWARD SLAYBACK- born 14 May 1874, Burlington, Boone Co., KY; died 07 Dec 1921, Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH; buried in Greendale Cemetery,Greendale, Dearborn Co., IN.; He married (1) MARY E. BRIGGS, 17 Feb  1894 in Rising Sun, Ohio Co., IN; born 10 Dec 1878 in Big Bone, Boone Co., Kentucky and died 18 Jan 1912. John married (2) VIRGIE LAMBERT on 25 August 1912 Boone Co., KY. Virgie was born about 1891 in Boone Co., KY and died 29 Oct 1917. He married (3) HESTER SAVAGE on 17 Jan 1920, Ohio County, Indiana; Hester born on the 25th of September 1890 in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn Co., IN.
7. JAMES M. SLAYBACK - born 29 Nov 1874, Boone Co., KY; died 29 Oct 1918; married IDA BELLE CRAIG; born 1879; died 1944. Ida is buried in Burlington I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Burlington, Boone Co., KY. Possible James is also laid to rest there in an unmarked grave.
8. MONTREVILLE "MONT"SLAYBACK - born 25 Oct 1876, Boone Co., KY; died 31 Dec 1948, Aurora, Dearborn Co., Indiana and buried in Burlington, Boone Co., KY.  He married MINNIE ANN CRAIG on 13 Dec 1898, in Dearborn Co., Indiana. She was born 17 Jan 1877 in Boone Co., KY and died 13 Mar 1947 in Aurora, Dearborn Co., IN. Minnie was laid to rest at the Burlington I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Burlington, Boone Co., Kentucky. 
9. LOUIS/LEWIS HENRYSLAYBACK - born 08 Mar 1879 in Burlington, Boone Co., KY; died 12 Aug 1951 in Petersburg, Boone Co., KY; married (1) IDA LAFEVER, 28 Oct 1898, Dearborn Co., IN; born 1875; died 26 Jul 1919 in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn Co., IN; married (2) ELLA "ELLIE" CRAIG in about 1913; born 1899 in Kentucky and died 1972. Louis and both wives are laid to rest in the Petersburg Cemetery, SW of Petersburg on SR 20, Boone Co., Kentucky.

NOTES & SOURCES

• Boone County Recorder Newspaper Article
  Burlington, KY, Wednesday, February 19, 1896
  "Abe Slayback, who has been in poor health for some time, died last Thursday. He was an old soldier, having served in the "bloody fifty-fifth," and his pension of $12 a month his only means of support for a long time previous to his death.
  SOURCE: Copy of article provided by researcher Robert Shannon, Jr., 04 Dec 1999 
• Muster Rolls
  Private Abraham Slayback in Company A - 55th KY Inf./13th Corps was drafted from Boone County in 1864.  He was 24 years old, a farmer, eyes - blue,hair - light, complexion - light, height  - 5'5".  He was listed as born in Butler County, OH.
  SOURCE: Copies of Muster Rolls received from Christine Stambaugh by Joyce M. Franz and transcribed by Joyce M. Franz.
• BURIAL SOURCES - provided by Joyce Franz, Robert Shannon, Jr. & Christine Stambaugh, and mostly confirmed by personal visits to the cemteries.
• 1870 ST. LOUIS, MO CENSUS EXTRACTION - Provided by Deanna Holm.

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