Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Samuel C. Dewoody




Husband Samuel C. Dewoody 1

           Born: 28 Jun 1843 1
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           Died: 25 Nov 1922 2
         Buried: 27 Nov 1922 - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA


         Father: Andrew Dewoody (Abt 1787-1862) 3
         Mother: Ellen Sumner (Abt 1816-      ) 3





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General Notes: Husband - Samuel C. Dewoody


He was a blacksmith by trade.

Civil War: He enrolled as a private of Company G, Sixty-third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, on 1 August 1861 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He straggled from the company in November, 1862, and again in June, 1863, and this time was sentenced by general court martial to stoppage of pay ten dollars a month for six months. At the end of his three years he reenlisted January 4, 1864. During the siege of Petersburg, he was captured on June 22, 1864, confined briefly at Richmond, transferred to Lynchburg, and finally paroled at Charleston in December. He was mustered out at Arlington Heights May 29, 1865, but soon reenlisted in the regular army, serving three years, 1866-1869, in Company H, Nineteenth U.S. Infantry. In later years he peddled notions. His veteran's pension was fifty dollars a month when he died.

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Sources


1 Newton Edward Brightwell, DeWoody Records (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989), Pg 115.

2 Newton Edward Brightwell, DeWoody Records (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989), Pg 118.

3 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 499.


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