Soldier: Sergeant Clayton N Willits
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: 7/25/1864
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:
Clayton F Willits was born in Ohio on 5/6/1845. His two older brothers, Wendall P Willits and William Willits served in the 3rd OVI Company I. Wendall died in Tennessee during the War. Clayton married Mary Vickers on Christmas Day 1866, five children were born of this union. Clayton lived and farmed in the Cardington, Ohio most of his life. At age 84 in 1930, he and his wife were living at 416 W Main Street, Cardington, Ohio. Clayton collected an invalid’s pension on 7/26/1890.
Date of Death: 11/11/1936 Place of burial: Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio
Adopted By: Morrow County Veteran Services Researcher: Velda L Montgomery
