Celestia Tompkins was born at Fleming, New York.

The evidence

• “He served as first lieutenant, Company F, Nineteenth Michigan Infantry, and was confined for many months in Libby prison. Celestia Tompkins, born July 31, 1839, at Fleming, N. Y. ; died September 25, 1898, at Washington, D.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 268 / book p. 768

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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