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Married Martha E. Castetter, Oct. 18, 1871, Hamilton County, Indiana.

NOTE: For Some Reason, Alfred Heady Used An Alias Name While Serving In The War. The Following Is How He Is Listed In Records. This Name Was Found (and showing the alias) By Looking In the Pension Index for Civil War Soldiers:

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS:
Name: Alfred T. Heady/Alfred V. Pearce
Residence: Monrovia, Indiana
Enlistment Date: 24 Jul 1861
Side Served: Union
State Served: Indiana
Service Record: Promoted to Full Corporal. Enlisted in Company K, 21st Infantry Regiment Indiana on 24 Jul 1861.
Enlisted as a Private on 24 July 1861. Transferred into Company K, 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment Indiana on 1 Feb 1863. Transferred out of Company K, 21st Infantry Regiment Indiana on 1 Feb 1863. Mustered Out Company K, 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment Indiana on 31 Jul 1864.
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Corporal
Film Number: M540 roll 59
Sources: 76
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ALFRED TENNYSON HEADY

The late subject of this memoir was one of the early settlers of Erie township, Neosho county, having brought his young wife hither from Hamilton Co., Ind. in 1872. But Kansas at that time was no parallel for Indiana and the young soldier and famer returned east and remained in the state of his birth till 1878 when he came back to Kansas and took possession of the partental legacy where he made his home and died. Mr. Heady was born in Hamilton Co., Ind. March 31, 1844, and was reared and educated in his native state. July 6, 1861, he enlisted in Co. E, 1st Ind. heavy artillery and passed through the war, veteranizing and seeing and experiencing the closing acts of the rebellion. He was wounded at Camp Ryland, La., April 13, 1863, by gunshot wound in the left thigh and was sent to Morgan City hospital where he remainded till finally disposed of in the Barrakcs hospital in New Orleans.

He almost lost his life by complications before his wound finally healed but rejoined his regiment and reenlisted for the remainder of the war when his first enlistment expired. He passed through so much hard service and was such a brave soldier that his company and reginental officers united in recommending him to Governor Morton for a commission in the regular army should he desire to join that establishment after his release from the volunteer service. He finally determined on civil instead of military pursuits and returned to the farm from whence he came. On the 18th of Oct. 1871, Mr. Heady married Martha Castetter, born in Hamilton Co., Ind. Feb. 12, 1855, and a dau of Michael and Sarah (Heady) Castetter. Her father died at 51 years but her mother still survives at the age of sixty-seven. Mr. and Mrs. Heady resided with his father, Jackson Heady, the brief year they spent in Kansas but from 1878 to his death on the 23rd of Aug. 1891, Mr. Heady owned and occupied the old home and was engaged in its successful cultivation. The effects of his army service finally caused his death and he passed away at the age of forty-seven. The family of our worthy subject comprised ten children as follows: Charles, James, John, Ada (wife of Henry Fouts), Ethel, Thomas, Emma. Pearl, Verl and Edith. (History of Neosho County, Kansas 1902)

History of Neosho and Wilson Counties, Vol 1 & 2; published in 1902 by Lew Wallace Duncan

Vol 1 -- History of Neosho County, Kansas - compiled and written by T.F. Rager of Neosho County

Vol 2 -- History of Wilson County, Kansas - compiled and written by John S. Gilmore of Wilson County

Reprinted in Heady Family Newsletters, Vol. 1, page 14, printed in 1971
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