Saturday, May 30, 2015

Elias Warner.

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Elias Warner.

Birth: Oct. 9, 1839.

Death: Jan. 29, 1927, Frederick. Frederick County, Maryland, USA.

Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland.

The Frederick Post Frederick, MD Monday Morning, January 31, 1927

Elias Warner, aged 87 years, a retired farmer of near Pleasant Hill, died on Saturday night at Montevue Hospital where he had been a boarding patient for some months. For six years he had been at the Fahrney Memorial Home, Washington county. He was a veteran of the Civil war, a member of Third New York Cavalry. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. George S. Martz, Pleasant Hill, three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at home of his daughter. Interment in Mt. Olivet cemetery. Thomas P. Rice, funeral director.

New York State Records.

WARNEAR, ELIAS, Age, 22 years. Enlisted October 17,1861,at Darnestown, Md.; mustered in as private, Company E, October 17, 1861, to serve three years; re-enlisted, December 16, 1863; transferred July 12, 1865, to Company B; transferred, July 21, 1865, to Company B, First N. Y. Mounted Rifles; also borne as Elias Warner.

WARNEAR, ELLAS, Age, 22 years. Enlisted, October 17, 1861, at Darnestown, Md.; mustered in as private, Co. K, Third Cavalry, October 17, 1861, to serve three years; re-enlisted, December 16, 1863; transferred to Co. B, July 4, 1865; to Co. B, First Mounted Rifles, July 21, 1865; designation of
regiment changed to Fourth Provisional Cavalry, September 6, 1865.

WARNEAR, ELIAS, Age, 22 years. Enlisted, October 17,1861,at Darnestown, Md.; mustered in as private, Co. K, Third Cavalry, October 17, 1861, to serve three years; re-enlisted, December 16,1863; transferred, to Co. B, July 4, 1865; to Co. B, First Mounted Rifles, July 21,1865; designation of regiment changed to Fourth Provisional Cavalry, September 6,1865; mustered out with company, November 29,1865, at City Point, Va.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Peter B. Cupp.

Peter B. Cupp.

Birth: Aug. 3, 1844, Ashland County, Ohio.
Death: Apr. 7, 1938, Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio.

Parent: Christian Cupp.

Wife: Edith M. Penn Cupp (1844 - 1932).

Children: Cute, Nellie, Clara B. Cupp Tirrill, Charles.

Note: Per cemetery book: "served in Civil War Army as a Pvt. in Co. H 15th Reg OVI 7 Sept. 1861-20 Sept. 1864"

Burial: Woodland Union Cemetery, Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio.

In the 1880's he either owned or worked in a Retail Furniture Store in Van Wert, by 1910 he was retired.

Ohio State Records.

Ohio Fifteenth Infantry, Co. H.

  Peter Cupp, Private; Age 18; Enlisted September 7, 1861, for 3 years; Captured at the battle of Stone River, Tennessee, December 31, 1862; Paroled February 27, 1863; Mustered out September 20, 1864.  

Official Records of the Fifteenth Ohio.

On the morning of June 18th, the Eebels having withdrawn, a party of three or four men advanced to reconnoiter, and picking up a couple of stragglers they were sent back in charge of Peter Cupp, a private of company H, who, in returning to the regiment, suddenly came upon a Eebel outpost which had been left by accident. Cupp announced the withdrawal to them and ordered them to stack their arms and surrender, which they did, and one captain, one lieutenant and sixteen men of the First Georgia Volunteers, were marched into our lines bv private Cupp. While in the vicinity the regiment was engaged in scouting and skirmishing, frequently capturing prisoners.
 

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Henry Dewitt Clinton.

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Henry Dewitt Clinton.

Birth: 1836 Virginia.
Death: Mar. 10, 1913, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland.

Burial: Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland.

He was in the First Virginia Cavalry, Co. K., Private.  I don't know when he was admitted, but in 1894 he was in the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers Home, died there in 1913.  He had at lest one son Thomas L. Clinton.


Tuesday, May 26, 2015

George Riggs Gaither, Sr.

George Riggs Gaither, Sr.

Birth: 1796.
Death: Sep. 18, 1875.

Parents: Daniel Gaither & Henrietta Riggs.

Wife: Hannah Bradley Gaither (1799 - 1873).

Children: Hannah Bradley Gaither (1824 - 1892), Henrietta B Gaither Stewart (1826 - 1850), George Riggs Gaither Jr. (1831 - 1899), A Bradley Gaither (1833 - 1852).

Author.  He had two other sons; Charles D., John D. Gaither.

Burial: Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland.

Confederate Soldiers Home of Maryland.

He was on the Board of Governors, was also a Manager of the home and a Vice President of the home.

Monday, May 25, 2015

Richard Blodgett.

All the information I have on him is military only.

Massachusetts 32nd., Infantry.

Richard N. Blodgett, Massachusetts 32nd., Infantry, Co. C.; private; Residence Sunderland; Age 24; Farmer; Enlisted and mustered in November 12, 1861;Discharged for disability, October 28, 1862.

New Hampshire Sixth, Infantry.

Richard Blodgett, New Hampshire 6th., Infantry, Co. A.; Substitute; Born Massachusetts; Age 26; Credited to Dublin; Enlisted and mustered in May 31, 1864, as Private; wounded April 2, 1865, at Petersburg, Virginia; Discharged for disability, June 17, 1865, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

New Hampshire Soldiers Home.

Richard U. Blodgett, Service Co. C., 32nd, Massachusetts Infantry, Rank Private; Months of service 24; Co. A., 6th., New Hampshire Infantry; Rank Private; Months of service 25; Nativity United States; Age 60; Pension $4.; Disability Rheu.; Admitted from Massachusetts; Occupation Farmer; Single; Read & Write Yes; Admitted November 14, 1894; Remarks, Discharged February 7, 1895, upon his request.

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Isaac Augustus Grout.

Isaac Augustus Grout.

Birth: 1826..
Death: January 20, 1905.

Wife and Children: Unknown.

Burial: Veterans Memorial Grove Cemetery, Yountville, Napa County, California.

California Soldiers Home.

Isaac A, Grout, Service United State Marine Corps, ; Rank Private; Months of service 48; Nativity Vermont; Age 68; Pension $8.; Disability Rhen; Admitted from California; Occupation Farmer; Widower; Read & Write Yes; Admitted January 11, 1895.