Soldier:  Sergeant Clayton N Willits

Regiment:  174^th. 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