Charles H. Vosburgh was born in September of 1842 in Jefferson County, New York, the son of Ephraim (b. 1813) and Lodena (b. 1824).
New York natives Ephraim and Lodena were married, presumably in New york where they lived for many years. By 1850 Charles was attending school with his two siblings and living with his family on a farm in Lyme, Jefferson County, New York. By 1860 Ephraim had settled his family in Michigan and was working as a farmer (he owned $2000 worth of real estate) in Bingham, Clinton County. By 1860 Charles was a day laborer living with and/or working for a wealthy carpenter by the name of C. E. Dodge in Lansing’s Second Ward.
Charles stood 5’7” with gray eyes, light hair and a light complexion and was 20 years old and possibly living in Lansing, in Ionia County or Clinton County when he enlisted in Company D on May 13, 1861. He was absent sick in the hospital from July of 1862 until he was discharged for aphonia (loss of voice) on April 22, 1863, at Emory hospital in Washington, DC. According to the discharging physician he suffered a “complete loss of voice of one year and 8 months standing [and that] he has been off duty for nine months, and has been in Carver hospital [in Washington] five months.”
After his discharge Charles returned to Michigan where he reentered the service in Company B, Fifth Michigan cavalry on December 30, 1863, at Pontiac, Oakland County for 3 years, crediting Holly, Oakland County, and was mustered the same day.
He married New York native Marsilva (1838-1902), probably in January of 1864 before leaving to join his Regiment in February of 1864 at Stevensburg, Virginia. They had at least six children: Charles A. (b. 1865), Hollis O. or William (b. 1868), Lena M. (b. 1872), Bart B. (b. 1877), Bertha (b. 1882) and Howard (b. 1884).
Charles rejoined his regiment and was probably on duty when his regiment participated in Kilpatrick’s raid on Richmond in late February and early March of 1864, during the movements from the Rapidan to the James river, then Todd’s Tavern and the Wilderness and Sheridan’s raid to the James river, all in early May. Charles was taken prisoner on June 12, 1864, at White House (or perhaps Trevillian Station), Virginia, and was eventually paroled and reported to Camp Chase, Ohio on May 12, 1865, as a paroled prisoner-of-war, where he was honorably discharged on June 23, 1865. (He may also have served in Company B, First Michigan cavalry.)
After the war Charles returned to Michigan and eventually settled in Fenton, Genesee County. By 1870 he was working as a painter and living with his wife and children in Fenton village; next door lived his younger brother Byron who was also a painter. His father was also living in Fenton and working as a carpenter. Charles was working as a painter and living with his wife and children in Fenton in 1880; next door lived his parents. He was still in Fenton in December of 1884 when he became a member of the Old Third Michigan Infantry Association, and in 1885. By 1890 he had moved to Detroit’s Tenth Ward, and was living in Detroit’s Fifteenth ward in 1894 and living in the Sixth Ward in 1900; for many years he worked as a painter.
In 1879 he applied for and received a pension (no. 285628).
Charles was probably living in Fenton when he died a widower of Bright’s disease on September 19, 1916, in Fenton and was buried in block D (section no. 4), Oakwood cemetery, Fenton.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
James E. Trimmer
James E. Trimmer was born around 1835 in Rochester, Oakland County, Michigan, possibly the son of James.
According to his pension records James served in the Mexican War, probably from the state of Michigan.
In 1850 there was a 22-year-old James Trimmer living with one David Wright in Springfield, Oakland County. In 1860 there was a James Trimmer working as a laborer and living with and/or working for William Rowley, a farmer in Montcalm, Montcalm County.
In any case, James stood 5’10” with black eyes, brown hair and a sallow complexion and was 26 years old and may have been residing in Shiawassee County when he enlisted in Company G on May 13, 1861. He was severely wounded in the left hand on May 31, 1862, at Fair Oaks, Virginia, although according to Homer Thayer of Company G was already back in camp by June 3.
Interestingly, the Detroit Free Press of June 6 wrote that Trimmer was among the returning prisoners-of-war, while the Grand Rapids Enquirer of June 11 reported that Trimmer was wounded and had been sent to a hospital in Washington, DC, and indeed Thayer wrote the Republican on June 20 that Trimmer had indeed been hospitalized at Judiciary Square in Washington, DC.
By early July Trimmer was still in Judiciary Square, and according to one eyewitness, had suffered the loss of two of his fingers but was reported to be “doing well.” He was discharged on July 30, 1862, at Judiciary Square hospital for “loss of 2nd & 3rd fingers of left hand at metacarpal-phalangeal articulation together with a considerable portion of the two metacarpal bones.” He was also suffering from “emphysema by which his lungs are chronically impaired.”
James returned to Michigan where he reentered the service in Company K, Eighth Michigan cavalry on February 9, 1863, at Groveland, Oakland County for 3 years, and was mustered on March 26 at Mt. Clemens, Macomb County, giving his residence as Groveland. (The regiment was organized at Mt. Clemens between December 30, 1862 and May 2, 1863.) The regiment left Michigan for Covington, Kentucky, on May 12, 1863, and from summer of 1863 through spring of 1864 participated in numerous operations in Tennessee.
James was an ambulance driver from March 30, 1864, through October, and reported missing in action on November 28 at Duck River, Tennessee. He soon returned to the Regiment on December 26, 1864, was transferred to Company F on July 20, 1865, and was mustered out with the regiment on September 22, 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.
After the war James returned Michigan, probably to Oakland County.
He was married to New York native Rhoda W. (b. 1839) and they had at least two children: Thomas J. (b. 1867) and John (b. 1876).
By 1870 James was working as a farmer and living with his wife and child in Holly, Oakland County. By 1880 he was working as a farmer and living with his wife and children in Holly, and was still in Holly in 1883 when he was drawing $8.00 per month for a wounded left hand (pension no. 58,577). He was still living in Holly in 1890 and 1894.
James died on March 22, 1911, in Fenton, Genesee County and was buried in block H (section 10), Oakwood cemetery, Fenton.
According to his pension records James served in the Mexican War, probably from the state of Michigan.
In 1850 there was a 22-year-old James Trimmer living with one David Wright in Springfield, Oakland County. In 1860 there was a James Trimmer working as a laborer and living with and/or working for William Rowley, a farmer in Montcalm, Montcalm County.
In any case, James stood 5’10” with black eyes, brown hair and a sallow complexion and was 26 years old and may have been residing in Shiawassee County when he enlisted in Company G on May 13, 1861. He was severely wounded in the left hand on May 31, 1862, at Fair Oaks, Virginia, although according to Homer Thayer of Company G was already back in camp by June 3.
Interestingly, the Detroit Free Press of June 6 wrote that Trimmer was among the returning prisoners-of-war, while the Grand Rapids Enquirer of June 11 reported that Trimmer was wounded and had been sent to a hospital in Washington, DC, and indeed Thayer wrote the Republican on June 20 that Trimmer had indeed been hospitalized at Judiciary Square in Washington, DC.
By early July Trimmer was still in Judiciary Square, and according to one eyewitness, had suffered the loss of two of his fingers but was reported to be “doing well.” He was discharged on July 30, 1862, at Judiciary Square hospital for “loss of 2nd & 3rd fingers of left hand at metacarpal-phalangeal articulation together with a considerable portion of the two metacarpal bones.” He was also suffering from “emphysema by which his lungs are chronically impaired.”
James returned to Michigan where he reentered the service in Company K, Eighth Michigan cavalry on February 9, 1863, at Groveland, Oakland County for 3 years, and was mustered on March 26 at Mt. Clemens, Macomb County, giving his residence as Groveland. (The regiment was organized at Mt. Clemens between December 30, 1862 and May 2, 1863.) The regiment left Michigan for Covington, Kentucky, on May 12, 1863, and from summer of 1863 through spring of 1864 participated in numerous operations in Tennessee.
James was an ambulance driver from March 30, 1864, through October, and reported missing in action on November 28 at Duck River, Tennessee. He soon returned to the Regiment on December 26, 1864, was transferred to Company F on July 20, 1865, and was mustered out with the regiment on September 22, 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee.
After the war James returned Michigan, probably to Oakland County.
He was married to New York native Rhoda W. (b. 1839) and they had at least two children: Thomas J. (b. 1867) and John (b. 1876).
By 1870 James was working as a farmer and living with his wife and child in Holly, Oakland County. By 1880 he was working as a farmer and living with his wife and children in Holly, and was still in Holly in 1883 when he was drawing $8.00 per month for a wounded left hand (pension no. 58,577). He was still living in Holly in 1890 and 1894.
James died on March 22, 1911, in Fenton, Genesee County and was buried in block H (section 10), Oakwood cemetery, Fenton.
Friday, March 16, 2007
George W. Adams
George W. Adams was born July 20, 1836, in New London, Connecticut, the son of Solomon Ingalls (1809-1891) and Nancy E. (Bush, 1816).
New Yorker Solomon married Connecticut native Nancy in 1833 and by 1834 they were living in Rodman, New York. By 1836 they were in New London, Connecticut, in Waterford, Connecticut in 1838 and in Brownsville, New York by 1841 and remained in Brownsville for some years. Between 1847 and 1850 they moved to Pinckney, Lewis County, New York and by 1852 were back in Rodman. Solomon moved his family to Michigan, and by 1860 George was living with his family and working as a farmer in Holland, Ottawa County.
George was 24 years old and living in Ottawa County when he enlisted in Company I on May 13, 1861. (Company I was made up largely of men from the eastern side of Ottawa County.) George was a tentmate of Alexander Brennan (who was also from Ottawa County) in the winter of 1862-63. George was universally liked in the company. “I tent with two boys,” Alexander Brennan wrote to his parents on February 12, 1863, “in the company: George W. Adams is one and the other is George Carlisle. They are both good boys. I think they don’t snore much and Adams don’t snore at all; he has not snored once since we left [Camp Michigan, the the previous year’s winter quarters]. The boys in the company like him."
George was reported in the Third Corps hospital in May of 1863, although he may have been wounded at Chancellorsville on or about May 3, but that is by no means certain. Or he may have been taken sick with gonorrhea; the record is unclear about this. In any case, he was in fact treated for gonorrhea from September 18 to October 7, 1863, and for diarrhea on September 21 and from September 24-27, October 8 to 10, 24 to 26 and November 1 to 3 and 6, 1863.
It is not known when he was detached from the Third Michigan but by February of 1864 George was on detached service as a guard of commissary stores at Brandy Station, Virginia. It appears that he rejoined the Regiment at some point in early 1864 and was wounded severely in both hips by gunfire on May 5, 1864, during the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia; while hospitalized for his wounds he was also treated for secondary syphilis. George was mustered out of the military on June 10, 1864.
After he was discharged from the army George returned to western Michigan and was living in Holland, Ottawa County when he married a widow, 19-year-old Laney Maria Laurence Crowfoot (1845-1904) on August 24, 1864, at the home of Franklin Wallin, a Justice of the Peace, in Saugatuck, Allegan County; they had at least four children: Seth Ingalls (b. 1873), Roy Quincy (b. 1875), George Lawrence (b. 1877) and John Robert (b. 1881).
George was still residing in Holland in 1865 when he applied for a pension (no. 54507), and indeed lived in Holland until at least 1875. For a time he may have lived in Jackson, Jackson County, and was living in Highland, Oakland County in 1877 and in Michigan, Hutchinson County, South Dakota by 1881. He eventually returned to Michigan and settled in Fenton, Genesee County, Michigan where he was residing in 1890, 1894 and in 1899. Indeed he probably lived in Fenton the remainder of his life.
He was a member of the Old Third Michigan Infantry Association, as well as a member of Grand Army of the Republic Fenton Post No. 24 in Fenton.
George died on December 14, 1899, in Fenton and was buried in Oakwood cemetery: block G, section no. 5.
His widow was still living in Fenton when she applied for a pension in 1900 (no. 491663), and by 1904 she was living in Los Angeles, California where she died of blood poisoning on May 8.
New Yorker Solomon married Connecticut native Nancy in 1833 and by 1834 they were living in Rodman, New York. By 1836 they were in New London, Connecticut, in Waterford, Connecticut in 1838 and in Brownsville, New York by 1841 and remained in Brownsville for some years. Between 1847 and 1850 they moved to Pinckney, Lewis County, New York and by 1852 were back in Rodman. Solomon moved his family to Michigan, and by 1860 George was living with his family and working as a farmer in Holland, Ottawa County.
George was 24 years old and living in Ottawa County when he enlisted in Company I on May 13, 1861. (Company I was made up largely of men from the eastern side of Ottawa County.) George was a tentmate of Alexander Brennan (who was also from Ottawa County) in the winter of 1862-63. George was universally liked in the company. “I tent with two boys,” Alexander Brennan wrote to his parents on February 12, 1863, “in the company: George W. Adams is one and the other is George Carlisle. They are both good boys. I think they don’t snore much and Adams don’t snore at all; he has not snored once since we left [Camp Michigan, the the previous year’s winter quarters]. The boys in the company like him."
George was reported in the Third Corps hospital in May of 1863, although he may have been wounded at Chancellorsville on or about May 3, but that is by no means certain. Or he may have been taken sick with gonorrhea; the record is unclear about this. In any case, he was in fact treated for gonorrhea from September 18 to October 7, 1863, and for diarrhea on September 21 and from September 24-27, October 8 to 10, 24 to 26 and November 1 to 3 and 6, 1863.
It is not known when he was detached from the Third Michigan but by February of 1864 George was on detached service as a guard of commissary stores at Brandy Station, Virginia. It appears that he rejoined the Regiment at some point in early 1864 and was wounded severely in both hips by gunfire on May 5, 1864, during the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia; while hospitalized for his wounds he was also treated for secondary syphilis. George was mustered out of the military on June 10, 1864.
After he was discharged from the army George returned to western Michigan and was living in Holland, Ottawa County when he married a widow, 19-year-old Laney Maria Laurence Crowfoot (1845-1904) on August 24, 1864, at the home of Franklin Wallin, a Justice of the Peace, in Saugatuck, Allegan County; they had at least four children: Seth Ingalls (b. 1873), Roy Quincy (b. 1875), George Lawrence (b. 1877) and John Robert (b. 1881).
George was still residing in Holland in 1865 when he applied for a pension (no. 54507), and indeed lived in Holland until at least 1875. For a time he may have lived in Jackson, Jackson County, and was living in Highland, Oakland County in 1877 and in Michigan, Hutchinson County, South Dakota by 1881. He eventually returned to Michigan and settled in Fenton, Genesee County, Michigan where he was residing in 1890, 1894 and in 1899. Indeed he probably lived in Fenton the remainder of his life.
He was a member of the Old Third Michigan Infantry Association, as well as a member of Grand Army of the Republic Fenton Post No. 24 in Fenton.
George died on December 14, 1899, in Fenton and was buried in Oakwood cemetery: block G, section no. 5.
His widow was still living in Fenton when she applied for a pension in 1900 (no. 491663), and by 1904 she was living in Los Angeles, California where she died of blood poisoning on May 8.
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