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1. Title:   Wiard Elderton Family Tree
Author:   Laurence Overmire
Publication:   RootsWeb World Connect Project, © 2004-2019
Text:   Wiard Elderton Family Tree, by Laurence Overmire, RootsWeb World Connect Project, © 2004-2019

Notes
a. Note:   N64 aka Waird
  CIVIL WAR CASUALTY, CO. D., 80TH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
  DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED AT THE BATTLE OF CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI, 4 OCT 1862
  26-year-old William enlisted in Co. D. of the 80th OVI on 6 Dec 1861. His brother Lewis served under him in Co. D. William died in Paducah, Ky of wounds received at the Battle of Corinth.
  THE 80TH OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, by Larry Overmire
 The 80th gave honorable service during the war, participating in many major campaigns including the Battle of Corinth, Oct. 4, 1862, where it sustained heavy losses, the siege of Vicksburg from May 18 to July 14, 1863, Missionary Ridge on November 25, 1863, and Sherman's March to the Sea. During the course of the war, the regiment lost 4 Officers and 48 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 179 Enlisted men to disease for a total of 224.
  Notes on this website are authored by Larry Overmire, unless noted otherwise. Permission of the author is required to reproduce elsewhere.
  Sources:
 1) Ancestry.com Message Boards, posting by Chris Ramsey, 12 Feb 2004
 http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.wiard/37
 2) Obituary of Lewis Wiard, CARROLL CHRONICLE, CARROLLTON, OHIO, JUL 15, 1918, courtesy of Chris Ramsey
 3) 80th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Website by Charles Paul Keller, [email protected]@aol.com, 2004 (lists him as Waird, William C.)
 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~keller/ovi80/work/
 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~keller/ovi80/work/roll.h tml


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