Soldier:  Martin B Purvis

Regiment:  174th. OVI            

Company:    A

Age:       18        

Date Entering Service:  7/23/1864

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:

Martin B Purvis was born on 2/16/1847 in Cardington, Ohio to the union of Alexander and Mary Purvis. Alexander ran was a butcher and ran a hotel in Cardington.  On 4/18/1867 Martin married Amelia A Hancock in Morrow County, they had one child.  Martin was a farmer in the Marion County area. Sometime after 1870 he and his family moved to Muscatine, Iowa where he continued farming.  Martin collected an invalid’s pension on 8/11/1890.

Date of Death:  11/3/1932        Place of burial:  Oakland Cemetery, West Liberty, Iowa
                            

Adopted By:  Kenneth and Kathern Purvis        Researcher: Velda L Montgomery