Soldier: Benjamin Everett
Regiment: 174th OVI
Company: A
Age: 27
Date Entering Service: 7/26/1864
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:
Benjamin Everett was born in Portage County, Ohio on 8/2/1836. He married Lucy M Adams in Morrow County on 10/30/1859, two children were born of this union. Benjamin and his family lived and farmed in the Cardington, Ohio area until sometime after 1870 when they moved to Belvue, Kansas. Benjamin was a carpenter and farm whale living in Kansas. He collected an invalid’s pension on 7/24/1890. His wife Lucy died in 1901.
Date of Death: 10/4/1907 Place of burial: Laclede Cemetery, Laclede, Kansas
Adopted By: Morrow County Veterans Services
Researcher: Velda L Montgomery