Soldier: Martin B Purvis
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 18
Date Entering Service: 7/23/1864
Period of Service: 11 months
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:
Martin B Purvis was born on 2/16/1847 in Cardington, Ohio to the union of Alexander and Mary Purvis. Alexander ran was a butcher and ran a hotel in Cardington. On 4/18/1867 Martin married Amelia A Hancock in Morrow County, they had one child. Martin was a farmer in the Marion County area. Sometime after 1870 he and his family moved to Muscatine, Iowa where he continued farming. Martin collected an invalid’s pension on 8/11/1890.
Date of Death: 11/3/1932 Place of burial: Oakland Cemetery, West Liberty, Iowa
Adopted By: Kenneth and Kathern Purvis Researcher: Velda L Montgomery