Person:Ebenezer Fennimore (1)

Ebenezer died as a result of injuries from the Battle of Stone River. See the Military notes for further details. Ebenezer also signed his name with two N's. The 1860 Census for Ross Co., OH in the Union Township taken on 11th July 1860 shows the age of Ebenezer as 17 working as a farmhand with his family. Ebenezer is buried with 10 to 12 others in the Old Methodist Cemetery. The persons are burried in a circle around and monument shaped like a broken Roman column with a drape over the top. The base of the monument has the names, regiments, and county of each person burried there. The monument is in commemoration of these persons who died as a result of the battle. When Marty and Dale Fenimore visited the cemetery in 1991 each grave was found with a American flag that had been recently placed there. Ebenezer was counded at the battle of Stone River in Indiana. He was wounded on 31 Dec 1862, and died 2 Jan 1863 at the age of 19 years 10 months 7 days old. Ebenezer was 19 years 10 months and 7 days old when he died from wounds suffered in the Battle of Stone River in Indiana during the Civil War. He was wounded on the 31st of December in 1862. He was a member of Company "A" in the 18th Regiment of the OH Voluntary Infantry. There is a Civil War monument in Frankfort, OH listing the names of the local men who died in battle. It reads as follows: In memory of the gallant dead who fell at the Battle of Stone River. It is followed by the following names: Lieutenant W. W. Blacker, Marshal Blacker, E. Fennimore, John Mowbray, Henry Pursell. On the east face is a tribute of respect to the following: Isaac Hanawalt and Corporal Jacob Stouch, who fell at Piney Creek, Alabama, and Wm. Shepard, also of the Sixty-third killed at New Madrid, Missouri. On the south face are the names of the following: Sargeant John Peairs, Sargeant John T. Davis, Corporal Josiah Timmons, Corporal Royal S. Augustus, all killed at Stone River, and a Sargeant Augustus Gibson, who died from disease contacted at Andersonville during an imprisonment of fifteen months. On the west face is a scroll, surmounted by a laurel wreath, and the inscription: They gave themselves for their country. During a visit to the grave site and monument in July 1991 by Dale and Marty Fenimore, a discrepancy was noted between the monument and headstone. The name on the monument had the spelling of Ebenezer Fennimore spelled correctly, however the head stone marker at the monument had the spelling of Fennimore as Fennemore. Ebenezer is buried with the others in the Old Methodist Cemetery in the middle of the small town. The persons are buried in a circle around the monument that is made and shapped out of Italian marble and shapled like a broken Roman Column with a cloth all in stone draped across the top. When visiting the monument and graves in 1991 each grave at the time had a recently placed American Flag in front of each head stone in commemoration of the July 4th of Independence Day celebration.