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William Bud Gearhart

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William Bud Gearhart

Birth
Hopewell, Muskingum County, Ohio, USA
Death
9 Apr 1898 (aged 66)
Crystal, Montcalm County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Muir, Ionia County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
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William Bud Gearhart married Alice Ann Haynes, daughter of Thomas Servant and Harriet (Parks) Haynes, November 6, 1852, Rev. E. G. Webster officiating. Alice and William Bud had 16 children. Only seven children survived. William and Alice lived in Union County, Ohio, where his Father Isaac Gearhart lived, for a couple years before moving to Gratiot County, Michigan. William and Alice and her parents were early settlers of New Haven Township, Gratiot County, Michigan, having purchased property about 1855 and moving about 1857. William held the township office of School Inspector in 1859. He was also Justice of the Peace in the township when he was drafted in the Civil War. He also was Director of the Poor for New Haven Twp. (History of Gratiot County, New Haven Elections, April 1864, J. P., William B. Gearhart.

William Bud was age 33, 1864, when drafted into the Civil War. William was listed at 5" 5 1/2" tall, blue eyes, light hair. During the Civil War and while William was away, Alice and the children lived in New Haven Township, Section 5, in a small house. It was a very hard winter for them. After William's return they moved to Ionia County, Michigan where they lived until William died.

Alice lived in Lyons, Ionia County, Michigan for a while after William's death, took care of her aged mother Harriet Parks Haynes Stiles, then moved to her daughter, Anna Houck's, home in New Haven Township, a mile south of Sumner, Michigan.
William Bud Gearhart married Alice Ann Haynes, daughter of Thomas Servant and Harriet (Parks) Haynes, November 6, 1852, Rev. E. G. Webster officiating. Alice and William Bud had 16 children. Only seven children survived. William and Alice lived in Union County, Ohio, where his Father Isaac Gearhart lived, for a couple years before moving to Gratiot County, Michigan. William and Alice and her parents were early settlers of New Haven Township, Gratiot County, Michigan, having purchased property about 1855 and moving about 1857. William held the township office of School Inspector in 1859. He was also Justice of the Peace in the township when he was drafted in the Civil War. He also was Director of the Poor for New Haven Twp. (History of Gratiot County, New Haven Elections, April 1864, J. P., William B. Gearhart.

William Bud was age 33, 1864, when drafted into the Civil War. William was listed at 5" 5 1/2" tall, blue eyes, light hair. During the Civil War and while William was away, Alice and the children lived in New Haven Township, Section 5, in a small house. It was a very hard winter for them. After William's return they moved to Ionia County, Michigan where they lived until William died.

Alice lived in Lyons, Ionia County, Michigan for a while after William's death, took care of her aged mother Harriet Parks Haynes Stiles, then moved to her daughter, Anna Houck's, home in New Haven Township, a mile south of Sumner, Michigan.

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