Soldier: Marcellus Edgell
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: 9/8/1864
Period of Service: 9 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Appointed Corporal on 5/7/1865, 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:
Marcellus Edgell was born in Morrow County, Ohio on 12/5/1846. He married Vashti Wiseman in Morrow County on 10/5/1870, four children were born of this union. Marcellus worked as a carpenter while living in Cardington, Ohio. He collected an invalid’s pension on 12/8/1885. He died in St Cloud, Florida. His wife, Vashti collected a widow’s pension n 10/2/1913.
Date of Death: 12/12/1913 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: Jack, Jane Edgell and Maxine Packer
Researcher: Velda L Montgomery