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