Soldier:  Charles Lewis Clancy

           

 

Regiment:  174^th. OVI                Company:  A

 

Age:  18                        Date Entering Service:  8/1/1864

Period of Service:  1 year

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Mustered out with Company 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:

Charles Lewis Clancy was born in Ohio on 5/3/1850.In 1870 he was a harness maker living in the Chesterville, Ohio area. He married Ida Mae White on 8/31/1878 in the State of Indiana, one child was born of this union. Census records indicate Charles was a traveling salesman. He collected an invalid’s pension on 4/25/1892. The obituary listed Charles as the general manager and proprietor of the Paratone Company in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was also a dealer in horses and owner of Dan Boone and several other well-known race horses. He was a member of the G.A.R. and the Central Christian Church. He died of heart disease in 1922. His wife, Ida collected a widow’s pension on 12/4/1922.

Date of Death:  11/24/1922                   Place of burial: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana

Adopted By:  The Village of Cardington                                                 

Researcher: Velda L Montgomery