Nathan was born 26 Jul 1784 in Essex, Chittenden County, Vermont. He served as a teamster with the Vermont Militia.
Nathan’s daughter Mary Ann was born in 1815, the last year of the war. By the 1850 Federal census, the Blood Family had settled in the village of Jay, Essex County, New York. With her husband Lyman Case, Mary Ann moved to Minnesota Territory in 1854 to reside near Chatfield. Her father Nathan and her father-in-law Stephen Case accompanied the extended family westward.
Nathan applied for and received a service land warrant of 160 acres in section 10 of Township 105 North, Range 12 West, the portion of Chatfield located in Olmsted County. Of Fillmore County’s thirteen War of 1812 veterans, Nathan was the elder statesman. He died on the 17th of May, 1858, at the age of 73 years, less than a week after Minnesota became a state.
Research of the veterans reveals that many of their sons followed in father’s military footsteps by serving in the Civil War. In Nathan’s case, it was his grandson Norman E. Case, a 22-year-old corporal with Company A, Second Minnesota, who was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga.
Nathan is buried at Chatfield Cemetery under a tall marble gravestone inscribed with his death date and age. His daughter and son-in-law share the family plot along with Nathan’s grandsons, Fred and Charles Case, and presumably Corporal Case.