Soldier: Corporal Theodore Purvis
Regiment: 174th OVI
Company: A
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: 7/25/1864
Period of Service: 11 months 22 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Mustered out with Company 6/28/1865. Confined in hospital in Murfreesboro, Tennessee from 12/24/864 to 2/14/865.
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:
Theodore Purvis was born in Cardington, Ohio on 9/2/1844. He married Eunice D Spencer on New Years Day in 1867, two children were born of this union. Theodore and his family lived and farmed in the Cardington, Ohio. Theodore collected an invalids pension on 1/25/1890, his wife Eunice collected a widows pension on 1/30/1911.
Date of Death: 1/28/1911 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: In memory of Cecil and Phyllis Haycook
Researcher: Velda L Montgomery
