His PARENTS: Hiram Churchill (1820-1852), a carpenter, son of Dea. Winslow Churchill and Mercy Dodge. Hiram m. Drusilla Miller (1820-1895) in 1840; 6 children: 4 d. in infancy, but Wellington (1843-1862) made it to age 19 and Byron (1846) survived as a wreck of his former self after the Civil War (see below). Hiram died on his way to the gold rush in CA in 1849, presumed killed by Native Americans near Ft. Carney [Kearney].
Pvt. Byron Churchill (1845-1933), a farmer, 5'6", grey eyes, dark hair; enlisted Feb. 23, 1862 in Co. A, 15th Regt., Michigan Vol. Infantry in the Civil War and was honorably discharged 2 years later on Feb. 23,1864, then re-enlisted the same day. He was captured near Atlanta, GA in Aug. 1864, paroled Mar. 1865 for disability; went to General Hospital in Wilmington, N.C. for treatment of frost bite of all his toes. Honorably discharged from service July 1865.
He applied for a pension in 1912 and at some point received $72. a month after they decided "that he requires the regular personal aid and attendance of another person on account of the following disabilities: all toes on left foot and last three on right foot were rotted off [dry gangrene] by reason of confinement in Andersonville prison during the war, this together with rheumatism have crippled his feet as to leave deponent helpless. Failing eyesight making it impossible for him to get around with safety."
He m. Rhoda Connett (1844-1928), widow of Thomas Miles (killed in the Battle of the Wilderness), in Jan. 1868 in Union City, MI; no children.
Pvt. Byron Churchill (1845-1933), a farmer, 5'6", grey eyes, dark hair; enlisted Feb. 23, 1862 in Co. A, 15th Regt., Michigan Vol. Infantry in the Civil War and was honorably discharged 2 years later on Feb. 23,1864, then re-enlisted the same day. He was captured near Atlanta, GA in Aug. 1864, paroled Mar. 1865 for disability; went to General Hospital in Wilmington, N.C. for treatment of frost bite of all his toes. Honorably discharged from service July 1865.
He applied for a pension in 1912 and at some point received $72. a month after they decided "that he requires the regular personal aid and attendance of another person on account of the following disabilities: all toes on left foot and last three on right foot were rotted off [dry gangrene] by reason of confinement in Andersonville prison during the war, this together with rheumatism have crippled his feet as to leave deponent helpless. Failing eyesight making it impossible for him to get around with safety."
He m. Rhoda Connett (1844-1928), widow of Thomas Miles (killed in the Battle of the Wilderness), in Jan. 1868 in Union City, MI; no children.
His PARENTS: Hiram Churchill (1820-1852), a carpenter, son of Dea. Winslow Churchill and Mercy Dodge. Hiram m. Drusilla Miller (1820-1895) in 1840; 6 children: 4 d. in infancy, but Wellington (1843-1862) made it to age 19 and Byron (1846) survived as a wreck of his former self after the Civil War (see below). Hiram died on his way to the gold rush in CA in 1849, presumed killed by Native Americans near Ft. Carney [Kearney].
Pvt. Byron Churchill (1845-1933), a farmer, 5'6", grey eyes, dark hair; enlisted Feb. 23, 1862 in Co. A, 15th Regt., Michigan Vol. Infantry in the Civil War and was honorably discharged 2 years later on Feb. 23,1864, then re-enlisted the same day. He was captured near Atlanta, GA in Aug. 1864, paroled Mar. 1865 for disability; went to General Hospital in Wilmington, N.C. for treatment of frost bite of all his toes. Honorably discharged from service July 1865.
He applied for a pension in 1912 and at some point received $72. a month after they decided "that he requires the regular personal aid and attendance of another person on account of the following disabilities: all toes on left foot and last three on right foot were rotted off [dry gangrene] by reason of confinement in Andersonville prison during the war, this together with rheumatism have crippled his feet as to leave deponent helpless. Failing eyesight making it impossible for him to get around with safety."
He m. Rhoda Connett (1844-1928), widow of Thomas Miles (killed in the Battle of the Wilderness), in Jan. 1868 in Union City, MI; no children.
Pvt. Byron Churchill (1845-1933), a farmer, 5'6", grey eyes, dark hair; enlisted Feb. 23, 1862 in Co. A, 15th Regt., Michigan Vol. Infantry in the Civil War and was honorably discharged 2 years later on Feb. 23,1864, then re-enlisted the same day. He was captured near Atlanta, GA in Aug. 1864, paroled Mar. 1865 for disability; went to General Hospital in Wilmington, N.C. for treatment of frost bite of all his toes. Honorably discharged from service July 1865.
He applied for a pension in 1912 and at some point received $72. a month after they decided "that he requires the regular personal aid and attendance of another person on account of the following disabilities: all toes on left foot and last three on right foot were rotted off [dry gangrene] by reason of confinement in Andersonville prison during the war, this together with rheumatism have crippled his feet as to leave deponent helpless. Failing eyesight making it impossible for him to get around with safety."
He m. Rhoda Connett (1844-1928), widow of Thomas Miles (killed in the Battle of the Wilderness), in Jan. 1868 in Union City, MI; no children.
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