Column "An" indicates the number of times this person is listed in the Ancestry.com CD "Military Records: Civil War Service Records" and the column "PS" indicates the number of times this person is listed on the US Park Service site  http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm .  The next columns list company or companies in which the person was assigned and if he is known to have been assigned to other units such as the Veterans Reserve, the 42nd Ohio, 77th Ohio or some other unit.

MRS. ELMINA WIGTON, farmer; P. O. Delaware; born in Liberty Township Oct. 11, 1819, on the banks of the Whetstone; daughter of William Perry ; her mother's maiden name was Electa Barber; the family are natives of Connecticut, emigrating to this county about the year 1807 ; when Elmina was very young, her mother was married to Benjamin McMasters ; at the time she was 6 years of age, they moved to Brown Township, where Horace B. McMasters now resides. Here she lived until her union with Sylvester Wigton, which event occurred June 11, 1837 ; he was a native of Luzerne Co., Penn.; he emigrated to this State with his parents when he was but 2 years of age ; they located in Berkshire Township, near Sunbury ; after Mr. Wigton's marriage they located on the farm she now owns, which they settled and cleared. Mr. Wigton died March 23, 1873, and his remains repose n the cemetery north of Eden ; he was a successful farmer, and acquired 202 acres of land, which Mrs. Wigton now owns, along with valuable property in Delaware; they had two children Perry and Elmer; Perry was a soldier in the 96th O. V. I., and lost his life at the battle of Arkansas Post; Elmer is now in the West. Mr. Wigton, during his life, was a very moral, upright and conscientious man, and temperate in his habits ; he was not a member of any church, but a man that always respected Christianity; Mrs. Wigton is an adherent of the Universalist doctrine.

HISTORY OF DELAWARE AND O H I O.  ILLUSTRATED.  CHICAGO O. L.. BASKIN S CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,  66 DEARBORN STREET.  1880

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REV. E. G. WOOD, Chesterville; was born in Tyringham, Berkshire Co., Mass., June 14, 1814; his father, Elias V., was born in Connecticut and emigrated to Kenton, Hardin Co., this State, in 1856. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He had eight children by Sarah Doud - E. G., A. V., Silvester M., Esther L., Louisa M., Delia A., Eliza C., and an infant who died unnamed. The father was a Congregationalist and the mother a Baptist. Mr. Wood remained with his parents until 3 years old, and then lived with his grandparents, Doud. At the age of 34, he returned to the parental roof, and soon afterwards began learning carpentering, continuing the same until 20 years old, when. he began attending school at Guilford Academy, New York; afterward he pursued his studies at Meadville College, Pa. In 1837 he was married to Maria L., a daughter of William V. and Susan (Stone) Havens. Her parents were natives of Vermont; they settled, after marriage, in Loraine Co., this State, where Mr. Wood entered the ministry in the service of the Baptist Church, and continued the same until 1865, when he abandoned it on account of ill health. He has had three children-Julius V., married Etty J. Joy, and enlisted in Co. "C", 96th 0. V. I.; was wounded at Grand Coteau, Louisiana, which resulted in the loss of an arm; he was commissioned Postmaster at this place in 1864, which office he has faithfully attended to, and in connection with the same has carried on a first class drug business, and since added a full line of notions, fancy goods, groceries, oils and paints. He has two children: Edwin J. and Adelbert L., the second child of Rev. Mr. Wood was Lucius, deceased 1869, also Addie W., married to James M. Guthrie, Baptist minister, now in Pennsylvania. Mr. Wood votes the Republican ticket. He claims to have organized the first Baptist Church in Delaware, Ohio.

H I S T 0 R Y OF MORROW COUNTY AND OHIO.  I L L U S T R A T E D

CHICAGO: 0. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,  186 DEARBORN STREET.  1880.

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JOSEPH J. WRIGHT, farmer; P. O., Bloom Centre; was born in Stokes Tp., Logan Co., O., March 1., 1839; son of H. and Polly (Pence) Wright. Joseph's father, was born in Fairfield Co., O., and settled in Stokes Tp., Logan Co., 1835, where Joseph was raised. Joseph enlisted in the 13th United States Infantry (Gen. W. T. Sherman's Regiment) and after serving his term in that Regiment enlisted in the 96th O. V. I., and served three years; he was never absent from a roll-call, never was in an ambulance, or was he ever excused from duty while in the service, and was with his regiment all the time, except fifty-two days, which time he was a prisoner of war, captured at Grand Coteau, La,, Nov. 3, 1863, and was released the 20th of December, 1863; was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment, on the 1st of March, 1866. He was married to Miss Clara L. Hoover, of this township, and settled on the farm he now owns, containing 120 acres. They have three children-Ettie M., Frank E. and Abbie F.  He is a Republican, and is a member of Lodge No. 292, A., F. & A. M., at De Graff, Ohio; he has been Master and is now Secretary of Grange No. 484. The hall of his society is built on his farm. He had six brothers - John L, William W., Martin M. (a member of the 96th O. V. I), David W., Horatio S., Andrew N. and one sister, Sarah J. His father died in 1856; his mother is now the wife of William Herndon, Esq., of this county.

WILLIAM WEATHERBY. farmer; P. O., North Greenfield; was born in Burlington Co., N. J., Nov. 16, 1809. Salem Tp. There were eight children in the family, he being the third of those that were born to Benjamin and Sarah (Mathis) Weatherby, who emigrated west to this State in the year 1816,and located in Columbus, remaining there two years. While here William drove a team which was hauling rock to be used in extending the walls of the Penitentiary building. About the year 1818, he moved with his parents to Zane Tp., and settled near Middleburg. William began poor; he first hired out to work at &9 per month; then worked three years at the carpenters' trade. On Aug. 25, 1836, he was united by marriage to Ann K. Faulkner, who was born in Greene Co., O., March 30, 1818; her parents were Jesse and Hannah Shepheard, who came from West Virginia. After William married, he be began renting. His first purchase was 280 acres of land, at $1.50 per acre, in the " Green Woods,'' which he paid for by renting. Before making his permanent settlement where he now re sides he made several changes, but during all this time kept steadily at work, doing great deal of pioneer labor. In 1858, he located near North Greenfield, purchasing 117 1/2 gems of land, and has accumulated 272 acres. He has but one child-Mary E. born in 1844. Four children were born him; he lost one son, David, who died near Vicksburg; he was a soldier in the 96th O. V. I.

HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY AND OHIO.  ILLUSTRATED.  CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,  186 DEARBORN STREET.  1880.

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A. L. WILLIAMS, physician and surgeon, North Lewisburg, was born in Delaware Co., Ohio, Sept. 30, 1836, and is a son of James and Lydia (Martin) Williams. His father was born in Virginia in 1810, and, in 1833, settled in the above county, in which his death occurred in 1876. His mother was born in Ohio in 1817, and was married to James, father of A. L., in 1834, by whom she had eight children; six living, viz., Charles B., Rufus J., Eliza J., Mary L., John C. and our subject Benjamin and David, deceased. The former was a member of Co. F, 96th O. V. I., dying from disease in December, 1862, while aboard the steamer J. C. Swain. The Doctor's boyhood was passed on the farm, receiving the rudiments of an education in the district schools, which was afterward developed in the Ohio Wesleyan University, in which he fitted himself to teach-a profession be followed for a year and a half-the proceeds of which service he devoted to acquiring a knowledge of medicine. He studied under Dr. T. B. Williams, a prominent physician of Delaware, who was his preceptor for three years, after which he entered the Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, which institution conferred on him their diploma of graduation. After practicing about four years in Unionville, he became Assistant Surgeon in the 74th O. V. I., with which be was identified two years. He afterward, in 1864, located in North Lewisburg, and has since devoted himself to the duties of a large and increasing practice. In 1864, he was married to Martha T., daughter of Andrew and Martha H. Beard, by whom he has had two children-Zoe F. and Ava L. He is a member of the Order of Masonry and the Knights of Honor.

HISTORY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO,

ILLUSTRATED CHICAGO: W. R. BEERS & CO. 1881.

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Watson, T. A., Co. D 96th, e. Aug. 6, 1862; transferred to Vet. Res. corps, Co. C, at Chicago, Oct. 26, 1864; dis. June 12, 1865.

HISTORY OF SENECA COUNTY, OHIO.  ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886.

http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Seneca/SenIndex.htm

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