Person:Joseph Seaver (7)

MILITARY:

Joseph E. Seaver, a resident of Duplain MI, enlisted as a Private in the Union Army on 4 August 1862 at age 18, and enlisted in Company B, 4th Cavalry Regiment of Michigan on 28 August 1862. He was taken as a Prisoner of War on 15 June 1863 (no battle given) and was paroled on 15 October 1863 (estimated date). He was mustered out of the same unit on 1 July 1865 in Nashville TN ["Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers," Historical Data Systems, Provo UT, accessed at "American Civil War Soldiers" database on www.ancestry.com].

CENSUS:

In the 1910 US Census, this family resided at 178 Sheridan Avenue in the 17th Ward of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. The family included Joseph E. Seaver (head, male, white, age 66, first marriage, married 34 years, born NY, parents born NY, own income, rents a house), Mary Seaver (wife, female, white, age 55, first marriage, married 34 years, 4 children born, 3 living, born OH, parents born Germany), George J. Seaver (son, male, white, age 26, first marriage, married 1 year, born MI, father born NY, mother born OH, a machinist, works in auto parts), Charlotte Seaver (daughter, female, white, age 21, single, born MI, father born NY, mother born OH, a cashier, works in hardware company) and Nellie Seaver (daughter-in-law, female, white, age 24, first marriage, married 1 year, born MI, parents born French Canada) [National Archives Microfilm Series T624, Roll 680, page 201, ED 245, Sheet 5A, Line 5].