Seek his grave and kin. He served with the Union Feb 1865 to April 1866, died October 6, 1880, Charleston, S.C. Lived 123 King Street, Charleston. Son Francis Bellinger born 1874. Married 1866, Hilton Head Island, Clawaech Catherine Bellinger. Likely involved with prominent white Parris family of low country, S.C.? Likely kin of Sgt. Theodore Bellinger, Sr., of Co. "C", 128th Colored Troops, Union army, from Walterboro, S.C.