Soldier: William Henry Benizer
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: 7/26/1864
Period of Service: 1 year
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out with Company on 6/28/1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina 3/1/186
Other interesting information discovered:
William Henry Brenizer was born in Morrow County on 3/29/1845. He married Martha A Wheeler in Morrow County on 1/20/1867, two children were born of this union. William had a farm in Westfield Township in 1870. By 1880 he and his family had moved to the State of Wisconsin where he continued farming. William collected an invalid’s pension on 2/16/1891.
Date of Death: 9/27/1939 Place of burial: Lime Ridge Cemetery, Lime Ridge, Wisconsin
Adopted By: Charlie and Christine Long Researcher: Velda L Montgomery