William Lapham was the son of Benjamin Lapham (1807-1860), a Wayne Co., Michigan pioneer, and Cemantha Broadway (1813-c1846).
In 1861, William, along with his brother George, joined the 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company I. He was enlisted for three years before being discharged due to illness. He saw some action during the Civil War, particularly the Battle of New Bridge, Virginia on 24 May 1862. He was discharged before the Battle of Gettysburg, which cliamed the life of his brother George.
William's first wife was Emoline P. (Reynolds) Harding (1844-1886), the daughter of William Nathan Reynolds (1811-1879) and Ada Maranda Clark (1820-1901), and widow of Thomas Curtis Harding. They married in 1865 and had seven children: Horace, Luella, Lois, Charles, Laura, Charles Garfield, and Carolyn. During his marriage to Emoline, he worked as a hotel proprietor and farmer.
Following Emoline's death in 1886, William married three more times: to Emiline Hoover in 1888, to Esther A. Tompkins in 1905, and to Clara Holden in 1911. He bore no children with these later marriages.
In the many years following his service in the Civil War, William's life was overrun by illness. He left Nebraska in 1905, and lived in Ohio, and then moved back to Michigan, the state of his birth which his family left in 1871, in 1911.
(His headstone reads "William A. Lapham" instead of "William B. Lapham"; this is an error. All official records state that William was buried in Woodmere. According to all of those who have checked, there is no other William Lapham in Woodmere.)
In 1861, William, along with his brother George, joined the 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company I. He was enlisted for three years before being discharged due to illness. He saw some action during the Civil War, particularly the Battle of New Bridge, Virginia on 24 May 1862. He was discharged before the Battle of Gettysburg, which cliamed the life of his brother George.
William's first wife was Emoline P. (Reynolds) Harding (1844-1886), the daughter of William Nathan Reynolds (1811-1879) and Ada Maranda Clark (1820-1901), and widow of Thomas Curtis Harding. They married in 1865 and had seven children: Horace, Luella, Lois, Charles, Laura, Charles Garfield, and Carolyn. During his marriage to Emoline, he worked as a hotel proprietor and farmer.
Following Emoline's death in 1886, William married three more times: to Emiline Hoover in 1888, to Esther A. Tompkins in 1905, and to Clara Holden in 1911. He bore no children with these later marriages.
In the many years following his service in the Civil War, William's life was overrun by illness. He left Nebraska in 1905, and lived in Ohio, and then moved back to Michigan, the state of his birth which his family left in 1871, in 1911.
(His headstone reads "William A. Lapham" instead of "William B. Lapham"; this is an error. All official records state that William was buried in Woodmere. According to all of those who have checked, there is no other William Lapham in Woodmere.)
William Lapham was the son of Benjamin Lapham (1807-1860), a Wayne Co., Michigan pioneer, and Cemantha Broadway (1813-c1846).
In 1861, William, along with his brother George, joined the 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company I. He was enlisted for three years before being discharged due to illness. He saw some action during the Civil War, particularly the Battle of New Bridge, Virginia on 24 May 1862. He was discharged before the Battle of Gettysburg, which cliamed the life of his brother George.
William's first wife was Emoline P. (Reynolds) Harding (1844-1886), the daughter of William Nathan Reynolds (1811-1879) and Ada Maranda Clark (1820-1901), and widow of Thomas Curtis Harding. They married in 1865 and had seven children: Horace, Luella, Lois, Charles, Laura, Charles Garfield, and Carolyn. During his marriage to Emoline, he worked as a hotel proprietor and farmer.
Following Emoline's death in 1886, William married three more times: to Emiline Hoover in 1888, to Esther A. Tompkins in 1905, and to Clara Holden in 1911. He bore no children with these later marriages.
In the many years following his service in the Civil War, William's life was overrun by illness. He left Nebraska in 1905, and lived in Ohio, and then moved back to Michigan, the state of his birth which his family left in 1871, in 1911.
(His headstone reads "William A. Lapham" instead of "William B. Lapham"; this is an error. All official records state that William was buried in Woodmere. According to all of those who have checked, there is no other William Lapham in Woodmere.)
In 1861, William, along with his brother George, joined the 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company I. He was enlisted for three years before being discharged due to illness. He saw some action during the Civil War, particularly the Battle of New Bridge, Virginia on 24 May 1862. He was discharged before the Battle of Gettysburg, which cliamed the life of his brother George.
William's first wife was Emoline P. (Reynolds) Harding (1844-1886), the daughter of William Nathan Reynolds (1811-1879) and Ada Maranda Clark (1820-1901), and widow of Thomas Curtis Harding. They married in 1865 and had seven children: Horace, Luella, Lois, Charles, Laura, Charles Garfield, and Carolyn. During his marriage to Emoline, he worked as a hotel proprietor and farmer.
Following Emoline's death in 1886, William married three more times: to Emiline Hoover in 1888, to Esther A. Tompkins in 1905, and to Clara Holden in 1911. He bore no children with these later marriages.
In the many years following his service in the Civil War, William's life was overrun by illness. He left Nebraska in 1905, and lived in Ohio, and then moved back to Michigan, the state of his birth which his family left in 1871, in 1911.
(His headstone reads "William A. Lapham" instead of "William B. Lapham"; this is an error. All official records state that William was buried in Woodmere. According to all of those who have checked, there is no other William Lapham in Woodmere.)
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