Re: WILLIAM EDWIN ALVORD CIVIL WAR VET.
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Re: WILLIAM EDWIN ALVORD CIVIL WAR VET.
5/25/00
HELLO GWYN, I HAVE FINALLY FOUND WHO I WAS LOOKING FOR. WILLIAM EDWIN ALVORD FOUGHT WITH THE 57TH ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS. WILLIAM EDWIN ALVORD WAS MY GREAT GREAT UNCLE. HIS OLDER BROTHER LOWELL LEWIS ALVORD, WAS MY DIRECT BLOOD GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER. AND ALSO THIER "ELDEST BROTHER WAS JUSTIN MERRICK ALVORD. BOTH LOWELL AND JUSTIN FOUGHT WITH THE 28TH WISCONSIN VOLUNTEERS. I BELIEVE THAT WILLIAM EDWIN WAS TO YOUNG AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR TO JOIN. BUT HE DID GET IN ANY WAYS. HE USED HIS MIDDLE NAME "EDWIN" AS AN ALIAS. HIS OLDEST BROTHER JUSTIN HAD TO SIGN FOR HIM IN ORDER TO JOIN. THE FAMILY WAS ORIGINALY FROM PITTSFIELD MASS. IN 1837 THEY MOVED TO ARCADE N.Y. THIS IS WHERE WILLIAM WAS BORN. IN 1849 THEY ALL MOVED TO OCONOMOWOC WISC. ALL THREE BROTHERS DID HAVE CHILDREN. JUSTIN AND WILLIAM MARRIED TWICE. LOWELL DID NOT. BOTH JUSTIN AND LOWELL HAD WIVES WITH THE NAMES ELIZABETH. LOWELL MARRIED ELIZABETH HONSBURGER. I FORGOT WHO JUSTIN MARRIED. ANY WAY I HOPE THIS HELPS. LET ME KNOW IF IT DID.
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