Multiple platinum singing star Kelly Clarkson sprang from Humble Texas roots
before shooting to stardom in 2002 as the first ever winner of American Idol
Kelly continues to dominate the charts with the powerful vocals and outspoken
lyrics that have earned her three Grammys more than twenty million album
sales and the honor of singing at the second inauguration of President Barack
Obama when it comes to something that I really truly believe in it's my gut
feeling and it's right I do not sway from that I'm a very strong presence as
a female and I totally get that for my mother she put herself through like
after her my dad got divorced put herself through college like who worked
really hard raised three kids she's just a very strong individual that's why I'm
kind of interested about this ancestry stuff too is because there's got to be a
whole line of us in there you know we've got to get that from someone I was five
years old when my parents divorced and our family kind of separated and I
didn't really have a relation with my father after that I don't really know a
lot about my past and I just newly engaged and you know Brina knows you
know quite a bit more than I do about his family and it'd just be nice to
learn about my past and have that help me for my future my mother pretty
recently like maybe the past two years has been just gravitating and trying to
find out more about our genealogy I'm really excited to actually use her all
the stuff she's you know gathered said that we want to start from scratch I've
invited her to my home from her place at North Carolina and it will be a super
exciting to see what she's put together well thanks for coming to Nashville to
help me out with this I didn't really have much connection you know as young
without any of our past family members so I was wondering what made you all of
a sudden in the last couple years really get into genealogy well pretty
much the same thing I had no connections in my family either and I'm at that age
where I want to know my ancestors I want to know
their their hopes and their dreams and what kind of people were they yeah now I
did find some things online on the internet there we go you're going to go
to the rose family oh wow okay so there's me these are your
parents Niall and Mary and then it ends on Isaiah who is my
great-great-great-great all right on this as far as you got right yes okay
yes we can start from there okay click on Isaiah I'll show you some of the
research I found it says 1870 the census I get it here yes all right so there's
that's Isaiah Rose Isaiah Rose 28 male white coal digger coal miners daughter
cold mutters great-great great-granddad okay so if he was 28 in 1870 he would
have been 18 or 19 when the Civil War started right he would have been their
right age to been in there so go you can always go back to any season in Ohio
then he would have been well Yankee could have been but you never know you
got to go back and check I hope he was a Yankee then there's a way that you can
find out go up here to the search search search and go down to military record oh
okay baby's name in Isaiah rose and now search
okay Isaiah Rose there's two of them at the top the side Union scar 18th
regiment infantry he was a private and the other in which I think it's the same
one yep beside the Union Ohio 63rd regiment
so it's the same guy so he was in it twice and like I'm wondering did he go
out and did he go in how do you find out more the best place to to go to find you
know to go to find the information is go to Ohio all right well thanks to the
start you're welcome to work for me
journey begins well I'll see what I find and I'll come back no you have to come
back and tell me why no I'm gonna keep it a secret
no you know I have to finding out my three-times great-grandfather Isaiah
Rose was fighting on the Union side of the Civil War that's a relief to me the
union said was fighting for freedom for all Americans and I think that that's a
huge thing to recognize like you know what it is to be a free man a free woman
so I'm curious why did Isaiah Rose fight and what was he doing in two different
Union regiments because Isaiah began his service in Ohio Kelley is heading to the
state capital Columbus
kelly has arranged to meet civil war researcher Vonnie Zullo at the Ohio
Historical Society bonnie has found some records relating to Isaiah roses Civil
War service well I'm gonna be able to give you some information okay about him
so why don't we start with okay these are copies of his compiled military
service record when enrolled April 23rd 1861 didn't award start around then like
did he him roll right away yes he enrolled right after the war started the
first shots were fired at Fort Sumter you're like April 12th of 61 oh so that
was very right after that so do you think since Isaiah joined so quickly
that he was you know quite the patreon it was that like it was he against
slavery it's really hard to know exactly what would have been in his mind you
know as an individual soldier but I do know that there was a lot of patriotic
feelings in Ohio in his hometown in 1860 Abraham Lincoln's plans to stop the
spread of the slave trade caused southern states to secede and form their
own Confederacy this ignited fierce opposition in the North especially in
Isaiah roses home state of Ohio the state had a history of abolitionism and
a network of safe houses for slaves escaping from the south
Ohio became a union stronghold and was one of the top three states to supply
soldiers to the Union lines so you might have been caught up in that movement and
the high definitely so this is the 18th regiment and he was there for three
months and what why would you join another one like why why would he go to
the 63rd well let's take a look I have the records for the 63rd awesome
all right so Isaiah Rose term three years well he went from three months to
three years by December of 61 the reality of the war had sunk in so
President Lincoln and his generals decided you know this is not going to be
over quickly we need more soldiers and they need
to serve for longer no was that a drafted now are they chose no they chose
he chose to go back in and reenlist I'm super proud that Isiah chose to I mean
he chose to unless yeah based on that he was you know he's patriotic he was
believing in what he was he was getting involved in and very enthusiastic about
it well I love that okay so 63rd Ohio infantry company F at
Battle of Decatur Georgia I'm horrible best I can't read it
taken prisoner oh my gosh no that's horrible
taken prisoner at Battle of Decatur Georgia July 22nd 1864 so do we know cuz
this is the last card so what happens you're gonna need to go to Decatur to
really learn about what happened at that battle and what happened to him okay as
a prisoner fun when you're talking about men fighting and warts you think men you
don't think boys you know Mike three-times
great-grandfather was the 19 years old like when he's fighting a war you know
in his own country Civil War is almost worse than you know war from afar
because that's your home that you're fighting the people that you live with
I imagine being a prisoner born that time probably wasn't too cool
I'm just curious of you know how that went down and what happened afterwards I
can't wait to find out
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