Soldier: Mordacai Michener Meeker
Regiment: 88th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 31
Date Entering Service: 7/29/1864
Period of Service: 5 months 11 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Records found within the US Register of Deaths of Volunteers indicates Mordacai died of poison on 1/9/1865.
Battles in which he fought:
This Regiment was originally organized of a Battalion of four Companies organized at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio from September 24 to October 27, 1862 to serve three years ad designated as “First Battalion Governors Guards”.
Six new Companies were organized at Camp Chase from July 24 to August 3, 1863 to serve three years and consolidated with this Battalion and designated the 88th. Ohio Volunteers. It mustered out of service July 3, 1865.
This Regiment was principally engaged in guarding Rebel prisoners at Camp Chase. It was also engaged in the pursuit of Morgan’s Raiders and the suppression of the Holmes County Rebellion July 3, 1863.
Other interesting information discovered:
Mordacai Meeker was born in Cardington, Ohio on 10/30/1832. Mordacai had four brothers who also served during the Civil War: Nathan F Meeker served in the 88th OVI, Company A; Robert E Meeker served in the 66th OVI Company K, Benjamin J Meeker served in the 3rd OVI Company I and was wounded at Stones River; Daniel C Meeker served in the 26th OVI Company C. He married Rose A Dearholt in Morrow County on 8/28/1872, three children were born of this union. Mordacai was a farmer living in Richland Township, Marion County prior to the war. Rose collected a widow’s pension on 11/17/1865. Mordacai’s grandson, Hugh Brenzier collected a minor’s pension on 11/29/1872.
Date of Death: 1/9/1865
Place of burial: Shawtown Cemetery, Westfield Township, Morrow County, Ohio
Adopted By: Gleaner Insurance Researcher: Velda L Montgomery