Thursday, October 18, 2007

Gilman Houseworth Civil War Documents










































































































































Gilman Houseworth lived, for lack of better words, an interesting life....he served and was wounded at Chickamauga during the Civil War. Later back in Ohio he was tried and acquitted of being involved in a bar room murder at Waldo....he managed to survive the death of his first wife, married again, settled down in Kenton, Ohio, died and was survived by his second wife and a handful of kids.

Enclosed in this post are about 15 documents pertaining to Gilman concerning his Civil War service, and papers work his wife filed after his death. Some may be hard to read, but you can get the gist of it.



















3 comments:

Anonymous said...

houseworth changed from hauswirth?
-ron hauswirth, ma

Anonymous said...

Keep up the good work.

PRH said...

Yes, Houseworth and Housworth, came to America as Hauswirth...at least on my line...