of Muskingum County, Ohio · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Oliver P. Yaw
parentsMr. Yaw
Oliver P. Yaw⚭ Elizabeth J. Harrison
childrenNora M. Yaw · Elizabeth J. Yaw · John H. Yaw · Frederick L. Yaw
Their story
What the record says
Subject of the sketch.
Farmer, owns 100 acres, general farming, Muskingum County, Ohio.
Democrat, held local offices, M.E. church.
Enlisted at 18 in Company G, Seventy-eighth Ohio Infantry (Seventeenth Army Corps), served three years and eleven days as a private.
Engagements included Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, Kenesaw Mountain, siege of Atlanta, and marched with Sherman to the sea.
Discharged at Beaufort, S.C.
Pensioner.
Married October 1869.
Mother (Mrs. Yaw) resided in Perry County, Ohio with her parents.
Died 1 January 1877.
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