Person:Gardner Newcomb (1)

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Name Gardner D Newcomb
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1835 Malta, Morgan, Ohio, United States
Marriage 16 Jun 1857 to Marian Josephine Elvira Dunsmoor
Military[1] Ohio, United Statesenlisted, 62nd Ohio Infantry (Civil War)
References
  1. Robertson, Charles. History of Morgan County, Ohio, with portraits and biographical sketches of some of its pioneers and prominent men. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973)
    362.

    ... The youngest child—Marian. Josephine Elmira.--was born March 27, 1836. She married Gardner D. Newcomb, a machinist, of Bernham, Me., when they removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, where, after a residence of eleven months, Charles T.—their only child—was born. They very soon afterward removed Successively to Malta and Zanesville, Ohio, remaining a comparatively brief period at each, when the mother went into a decline and—like innumerable others who had gone before and still others who will follow her—came to the parental roof to die, which she soon after did, of consumption. Their son remained with his grandfather (Dunsmoor) until his majority, ... the " father followed the example of thousands of others and, at his country's call for volunteers, enrolled his name in the 62d 0. V. I., in 1881, and was one of those brave boys who made the night attack on Fort Wagner, was wounded in the shoulder by a Minnie ball but recovered." ...