Mortimer Lafayette Dewoody

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Husband Mortimer Lafayette Dewoody ¹

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           Born: Abt 1837-1838
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         Father: Andrew Dewoody (Abt 1787-1862) 2
         Mother: Ellen Sumner (Abt 1816-      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Mortimer Lafayette Dewoody

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Civil War: He disappeared from the records after deserting Company B, Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on August 10, 1864. He may have changed his name to avoid detection. He appears to have been a bounty jumper. He first deserted the Sixth U.S. Cavalry and joined the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry using the unimaginative name, J. B. Jones. He deserted again, was arrested, and returned to the Sixth Cavalry to serve out his three year term of enlistment. After mustering out of the Sixth Cavalry, he was paid by Francis H. Baldwin to become his substitute in the military service, and was enrolled in Company B, Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on July 18, 1864, deserting less than a month later.

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

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