Soldier: Hiram J. Norris
Regiment: 3rd. OVC
Company: M
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: January 4, 1864
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed): Mustered out on August 4, 1865
Battles in which he fought:
Decatur, Courtland Rd., Ala. May 26-27, 1864
Moulton, Ala. May 28-29, 1864
Noonday Creek, Ga. June 20, 1864
Kennesaw Mt., Ga. June 27, 1864
Vining Station, Ga. July 2, 1864
Peach Tree Creek, Ga. July 20, 1864
Jonesboro, Ga. Aug. 19-20, 1864
Lovejoy Station, Ga. Aug. 20, 1864
Other interesting information discovered: Hiram Norris lived in in Lincoln Township, Morrow County from 1860 through sometime in the mid-1870’s. By 1880 he was living in San Francisco, California, where he remained until his death in 1910. His wife’s name was Catherine. On January 8, 1888 he applied for a soldier’s pension, in California.
Date of Death: December 30, 1910
Place of burial: San Francisco, California
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard