Soldier: Gilbert McFarland Brown
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: 7/23/1864
Period of Service: 11 months 5 days
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 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Gilbert McFarland Brown was born on 8/13/1846 in Morrow County, Ohio. He married Emaline Alspar in Morrow County 10/27/1867, eight children were born of this union. Gilbert and his family remained in the Cardington, Ohio are where he was employed as a painter. Gilbert collected an invalid’s pension on 5/18/1889. His wife, Emaline collected a widow’s pension on 12/9/1898.
Date of Death: 6/23/1898 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: The Village of Cardington Researcher: Velda L Montgomery
