(I believe this is a Lapeer County Press Clipping) Wednesday, May 25, 1938
Madolin Barry
Last Civil War Veteran Wishes End Would Come
Only One Civil War veteran remains in Lapeer County as another Memorial Day rolls around. And it is quite likely that this will be the last Memorial Day observed here at which there is still living one of the soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Charles Oliver of Columbiaville the last veteran is 90 years old, and is becoming so feeble that it is doubtful he will live another year. Mr. Oliver knows this, and his blunt manner, says that he hopes he doesn't stay on earth much longer.
"It's awful to get old and not be any good," he says, "I can't see much, I can't hear much, and I can't do much. What's the use of living?"
Two Die Since 1937
The ranks of the GAR were thinned by two during the past year leaving Mr. Oliver as the sole veteran. Nathaniel Green of Hadley and William Murdock of Almont both answered the last roll call during the past year.
Born in the town of Pennington, Niagra County, New York, Dec. 7 1848, he came to Lapeer County with his parents March 10, 1861, to settle on a farm near Columbiaville. Seven houses and a store composed the village at that time.
In the spring of 1864 in company with a cousin, Orlando LeValley, who now resides in Fairgrove, Tuscola County, and a boyhood chum, Peter Carpenter, deceased, he enlisted at Flint Mich., in the 23rd Michigan Infantry, to be transferred later to the 15th Michigan Infantry from which he was honorably discharged in the fall of 1865.
At Nashville and Chattanooga
He saw service in the battles of Nashville and Chattanooga and engaged in minor battles through the south.
Returning to his home, he entered the lumber industry, then in its infancy in Michigan. For 22 springs he drove logs on the Flint River, Little Schoot, Manistique and Rifle rivers and was known as one of the best river men in the state.
He resides at his farm home two miles northeast of Columbiaville. His family consists of a brother Lafe, two years his senior, a brother Fred, 87, of Flint, and a nephew, He lives with his brother and wife, Mr. And Mrs. Lafe Oliver. Mr. Oliver has never married.
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Co.E, 15 Mich. Inf.
16 year old Charles enlisted 3, Oct. 1864 as a substitute for Joseph Jobson,
discharged 15, July 1865.
Charles never married.
Madolin Barry
Last Civil War Veteran Wishes End Would Come
Only One Civil War veteran remains in Lapeer County as another Memorial Day rolls around. And it is quite likely that this will be the last Memorial Day observed here at which there is still living one of the soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Charles Oliver of Columbiaville the last veteran is 90 years old, and is becoming so feeble that it is doubtful he will live another year. Mr. Oliver knows this, and his blunt manner, says that he hopes he doesn't stay on earth much longer.
"It's awful to get old and not be any good," he says, "I can't see much, I can't hear much, and I can't do much. What's the use of living?"
Two Die Since 1937
The ranks of the GAR were thinned by two during the past year leaving Mr. Oliver as the sole veteran. Nathaniel Green of Hadley and William Murdock of Almont both answered the last roll call during the past year.
Born in the town of Pennington, Niagra County, New York, Dec. 7 1848, he came to Lapeer County with his parents March 10, 1861, to settle on a farm near Columbiaville. Seven houses and a store composed the village at that time.
In the spring of 1864 in company with a cousin, Orlando LeValley, who now resides in Fairgrove, Tuscola County, and a boyhood chum, Peter Carpenter, deceased, he enlisted at Flint Mich., in the 23rd Michigan Infantry, to be transferred later to the 15th Michigan Infantry from which he was honorably discharged in the fall of 1865.
At Nashville and Chattanooga
He saw service in the battles of Nashville and Chattanooga and engaged in minor battles through the south.
Returning to his home, he entered the lumber industry, then in its infancy in Michigan. For 22 springs he drove logs on the Flint River, Little Schoot, Manistique and Rifle rivers and was known as one of the best river men in the state.
He resides at his farm home two miles northeast of Columbiaville. His family consists of a brother Lafe, two years his senior, a brother Fred, 87, of Flint, and a nephew, He lives with his brother and wife, Mr. And Mrs. Lafe Oliver. Mr. Oliver has never married.
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Co.E, 15 Mich. Inf.
16 year old Charles enlisted 3, Oct. 1864 as a substitute for Joseph Jobson,
discharged 15, July 1865.
Charles never married.
(I believe this is a Lapeer County Press Clipping) Wednesday, May 25, 1938
Madolin Barry
Last Civil War Veteran Wishes End Would Come
Only One Civil War veteran remains in Lapeer County as another Memorial Day rolls around. And it is quite likely that this will be the last Memorial Day observed here at which there is still living one of the soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Charles Oliver of Columbiaville the last veteran is 90 years old, and is becoming so feeble that it is doubtful he will live another year. Mr. Oliver knows this, and his blunt manner, says that he hopes he doesn't stay on earth much longer.
"It's awful to get old and not be any good," he says, "I can't see much, I can't hear much, and I can't do much. What's the use of living?"
Two Die Since 1937
The ranks of the GAR were thinned by two during the past year leaving Mr. Oliver as the sole veteran. Nathaniel Green of Hadley and William Murdock of Almont both answered the last roll call during the past year.
Born in the town of Pennington, Niagra County, New York, Dec. 7 1848, he came to Lapeer County with his parents March 10, 1861, to settle on a farm near Columbiaville. Seven houses and a store composed the village at that time.
In the spring of 1864 in company with a cousin, Orlando LeValley, who now resides in Fairgrove, Tuscola County, and a boyhood chum, Peter Carpenter, deceased, he enlisted at Flint Mich., in the 23rd Michigan Infantry, to be transferred later to the 15th Michigan Infantry from which he was honorably discharged in the fall of 1865.
At Nashville and Chattanooga
He saw service in the battles of Nashville and Chattanooga and engaged in minor battles through the south.
Returning to his home, he entered the lumber industry, then in its infancy in Michigan. For 22 springs he drove logs on the Flint River, Little Schoot, Manistique and Rifle rivers and was known as one of the best river men in the state.
He resides at his farm home two miles northeast of Columbiaville. His family consists of a brother Lafe, two years his senior, a brother Fred, 87, of Flint, and a nephew, He lives with his brother and wife, Mr. And Mrs. Lafe Oliver. Mr. Oliver has never married.
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Co.E, 15 Mich. Inf.
16 year old Charles enlisted 3, Oct. 1864 as a substitute for Joseph Jobson,
discharged 15, July 1865.
Charles never married.
Madolin Barry
Last Civil War Veteran Wishes End Would Come
Only One Civil War veteran remains in Lapeer County as another Memorial Day rolls around. And it is quite likely that this will be the last Memorial Day observed here at which there is still living one of the soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Charles Oliver of Columbiaville the last veteran is 90 years old, and is becoming so feeble that it is doubtful he will live another year. Mr. Oliver knows this, and his blunt manner, says that he hopes he doesn't stay on earth much longer.
"It's awful to get old and not be any good," he says, "I can't see much, I can't hear much, and I can't do much. What's the use of living?"
Two Die Since 1937
The ranks of the GAR were thinned by two during the past year leaving Mr. Oliver as the sole veteran. Nathaniel Green of Hadley and William Murdock of Almont both answered the last roll call during the past year.
Born in the town of Pennington, Niagra County, New York, Dec. 7 1848, he came to Lapeer County with his parents March 10, 1861, to settle on a farm near Columbiaville. Seven houses and a store composed the village at that time.
In the spring of 1864 in company with a cousin, Orlando LeValley, who now resides in Fairgrove, Tuscola County, and a boyhood chum, Peter Carpenter, deceased, he enlisted at Flint Mich., in the 23rd Michigan Infantry, to be transferred later to the 15th Michigan Infantry from which he was honorably discharged in the fall of 1865.
At Nashville and Chattanooga
He saw service in the battles of Nashville and Chattanooga and engaged in minor battles through the south.
Returning to his home, he entered the lumber industry, then in its infancy in Michigan. For 22 springs he drove logs on the Flint River, Little Schoot, Manistique and Rifle rivers and was known as one of the best river men in the state.
He resides at his farm home two miles northeast of Columbiaville. His family consists of a brother Lafe, two years his senior, a brother Fred, 87, of Flint, and a nephew, He lives with his brother and wife, Mr. And Mrs. Lafe Oliver. Mr. Oliver has never married.
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Co.E, 15 Mich. Inf.
16 year old Charles enlisted 3, Oct. 1864 as a substitute for Joseph Jobson,
discharged 15, July 1865.
Charles never married.
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