WAYNE COUNTY OHIO - Civil War Pension: Cyrus SMITH

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SUBMITTER: Kathy Julkowski
EMAIL: Kjulkowski@aol.com
DATE: March 12, 1999
SURNAMES: SMITH
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Cyrus Smith was born on January 22, 1845, in Dover, Wayne County, Ohio.
He was just sixteen and a half years of age at the outbreak of the American
Civil War. Cyrus tried repeatedly to enlist but was refused due to his age
and small stature. Eventually he traveled 250 miles from his Michigan home  
to Indiana in hopes of being accepted. In Indiana he was told if he obtained  
his parents' permission, he would be mustered into the Indiana volunteers.
His parents decided if he was that persistent, he should at least enlist  
closer to home. So, armed with the required signatures, Cyrus Smith mustered  
into the Company E of the 11th Michigan Volunteers on August 24, 1861, at  
White Pigeon, St. Joseph County, Michigan. He served as a Private at Civil  
War battles at:  Gallantin, Fort Riley, Stone River, Elk River, Davis Cross  
Rds, Murfreesboro, and Mission Ridge, Tennessee; Chickamauga, Graysville,  
Buzzards' Roost, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Rough's Station,  
Peach Tree Creek, Georgia and the Siege of Atlanta. Cyrus Smith mustered out  
with Company E at Sturgis, St. Joseph County, Michigan, on September 30,  
1864.

According to the Pension Office records, Cyrus Smith was disabled by chronic
diarrhea resulting in piles at Murfreesboro Tenn. June 1862; rheumatism
and fever contracted near Nashville Tenn Dec 1862; rheumatism and erysipelas
piles and disease of eyes at Rossville GA Jany 1864.; Cyrus Smith died in  
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon on April 21, 1924.

He is buried at Rose City Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. His headstone reads
Cyrus L. Smith 1845 - 1924 Civil War Veteran.