Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
Notes for Seth G. Hyland
From Newton book:
MILITARY SERVICE:- SETH G., entered the Civil War as a private, age 32,on the 26th day of February 1864, for a period of three years, in CompanyG, 34th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Transferred February 20, 1865to Company G, 36th Regiment O.V.I. and was mustered out with the Company,July 27, 1865. Volume 3, Page 573-587. Ohio Roster of Men.
"When I volunteered in the 34th Regiment, Company G, O.V.I., I was sickin the United States Hospitalat Gallipolis, Ohio for six months, then Ijoined my Regiment. Some time after that I was captured at Beverly, WestVirginia, on the morning of the 11th day of January 1865, and was takento Richmond, Virginia, as a prisoner.
"Put in Libby Prison, where I was a prisoner of war for 36 days, duringthe first year's service. Left my companion and children. I have donewithout sleep and something to eat for three days. I have seen men eatbody lice - they were by the millions - men die begging for the want ofsomething to eat. I saw a living man being devoured by maggots, wholaying on the ground in such an emaciated and weakened condition he couldnot move."
COMMENT - NOTES: On the corner of a street, a dingy old brick building inRichmond, Virginia, at that day- may be seen a small sign, that reads,"LIBBY & SON", ship chandlers and grocers. "It was three stories high,eighty feet wide, and a hundred and ten feet in depth."
The name LIBBIE, became synonymous with terror; it carries tyranny andoppression in its simple sound, but during the war not less than twelvehundred and sometimes thirteen hundred officers and men lived withinthose desolate rooms and filthy cellars, with a space only ten feet bytwo allotted to each for all purposes of living.
The soldiers who were taken prisoners in the Virginia's are at oncehaunted with visions of darksome den entering a place so full of bitterexperiences as that is known to be.
"It is said that men drew their Bean Soup in their Shoes" for want ofcups, or things to put the soup in. Over run with Vermin, punished bycold, breathing a tainted atmosphere, no space allowed thus to rest byday, and lying down at night, "woven and dove-tailed together likesardines in a box."
Their daily rations were only two ounces of stale beef - uneatable -"when gotten", and their lives were forfeited if they caught but onestreak of GOD'S blue sky through those filthy windows. They endured allthe horrors of the middle ages for the love of their country.
RESIDENT:- Frankfort, now Jerome, Union County, Ohio.
Seth G., born at Blendon, in Blendon Township, Franklin County, Ohio in1831, and moved from there in about 1834, three and a half miles west ofDublin, Ohio where he lived until 11 years old, thence to Union County,near Watkins, Ohio.
After a few years in Delaware County, Ohio and back to Union County nearMarysville, Ohio at a little past 21 years old, he served two years atapprenticeship at Pottery business in Hardin County, near Kenton, Ohio.
He was married to Jane Scott, born September 9, 1834, on December 4,1854, who died July 6, 1864. When an apprentice, he worked a year gettingfive dollars per month, working at that trade until 1864, when hevolunteered for service in the Civil War. He was still at his trade in1896. He joined the I.O.O.F. Lodge in 1863, and was still an activemember until his death.
How well do I remember - when during my courtship (Anna Mitchell) whobecame my wife, going up to Grandma and Grandpa Hylands. He would take meout to the Kiln-house, where he showed and told me the process it took tomake the "Crocks and jugs", the dipping process in boiling hot red oxideof lead, while green, to water proof them before placing them in the Kilnto burn.
He made crocks by the thousands to be used to catch the sugar water infrom the tapped maple sugar trees, boiled down in large iron kettles tosyrup. Also a large amount was made into maple sugar, for daily use uponthe family table.
During the boiling down process, how well do I remember the gay partiesthe girls and boys would have. The necessary eats would be brought, evento the live chickens, to be dressed at the sugar house. Fresh sugar waterwould be furnished to cook the chickens in, which gave them the mostdelicious flavor, or be table drawn, then stuffed with the most deliciousdressing flavored by sugar water, with the feathers on. Then a clay mudbatter would be made, the mud thoroughly mixed into the feathers to makea large mud ball for baking. A place was made between the kettles in thered hot coals, for this process, When done a club was used to crack theshell. When taken out, off came the feathers, the chicken as clean ashand picked, ready to be served at the party.
My wife often related, that when she was a girl, she often went up tovisit her Aunt Mertie, also in her girlhood. And how they would ride "OldJack" the horse to the grinding machine. This machine ground the mud upto the consistency that was needed to make the crocks on the turn-table.
This machine was manual driven, the operator sitting upon a small seat.This rotary table was driven by the operator's legs and feet, while heworked the mud with his hands into shape, the crocks were upon the top ofthis rotary-turn-table. It looked easy, but it was an "Art" withinitself.
MILITARY SERVICE:- SETH G., entered the Civil War as a private, age 32,on the 26th day of February 1864, for a period of three years, in CompanyG, 34th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Transferred February 20, 1865to Company G, 36th Regiment O.V.I. and was mustered out with the Company,July 27, 1865. Volume 3, Page 573-587. Ohio Roster of Men.
"When I volunteered in the 34th Regiment, Company G, O.V.I., I was sickin the United States Hospitalat Gallipolis, Ohio for six months, then Ijoined my Regiment. Some time after that I was captured at Beverly, WestVirginia, on the morning of the 11th day of January 1865, and was takento Richmond, Virginia, as a prisoner.
"Put in Libby Prison, where I was a prisoner of war for 36 days, duringthe first year's service. Left my companion and children. I have donewithout sleep and something to eat for three days. I have seen men eatbody lice - they were by the millions - men die begging for the want ofsomething to eat. I saw a living man being devoured by maggots, wholaying on the ground in such an emaciated and weakened condition he couldnot move."
COMMENT - NOTES: On the corner of a street, a dingy old brick building inRichmond, Virginia, at that day- may be seen a small sign, that reads,"LIBBY & SON", ship chandlers and grocers. "It was three stories high,eighty feet wide, and a hundred and ten feet in depth."
The name LIBBIE, became synonymous with terror; it carries tyranny andoppression in its simple sound, but during the war not less than twelvehundred and sometimes thirteen hundred officers and men lived withinthose desolate rooms and filthy cellars, with a space only ten feet bytwo allotted to each for all purposes of living.
The soldiers who were taken prisoners in the Virginia's are at oncehaunted with visions of darksome den entering a place so full of bitterexperiences as that is known to be.
"It is said that men drew their Bean Soup in their Shoes" for want ofcups, or things to put the soup in. Over run with Vermin, punished bycold, breathing a tainted atmosphere, no space allowed thus to rest byday, and lying down at night, "woven and dove-tailed together likesardines in a box."
Their daily rations were only two ounces of stale beef - uneatable -"when gotten", and their lives were forfeited if they caught but onestreak of GOD'S blue sky through those filthy windows. They endured allthe horrors of the middle ages for the love of their country.
RESIDENT:- Frankfort, now Jerome, Union County, Ohio.
Seth G., born at Blendon, in Blendon Township, Franklin County, Ohio in1831, and moved from there in about 1834, three and a half miles west ofDublin, Ohio where he lived until 11 years old, thence to Union County,near Watkins, Ohio.
After a few years in Delaware County, Ohio and back to Union County nearMarysville, Ohio at a little past 21 years old, he served two years atapprenticeship at Pottery business in Hardin County, near Kenton, Ohio.
He was married to Jane Scott, born September 9, 1834, on December 4,1854, who died July 6, 1864. When an apprentice, he worked a year gettingfive dollars per month, working at that trade until 1864, when hevolunteered for service in the Civil War. He was still at his trade in1896. He joined the I.O.O.F. Lodge in 1863, and was still an activemember until his death.
How well do I remember - when during my courtship (Anna Mitchell) whobecame my wife, going up to Grandma and Grandpa Hylands. He would take meout to the Kiln-house, where he showed and told me the process it took tomake the "Crocks and jugs", the dipping process in boiling hot red oxideof lead, while green, to water proof them before placing them in the Kilnto burn.
He made crocks by the thousands to be used to catch the sugar water infrom the tapped maple sugar trees, boiled down in large iron kettles tosyrup. Also a large amount was made into maple sugar, for daily use uponthe family table.
During the boiling down process, how well do I remember the gay partiesthe girls and boys would have. The necessary eats would be brought, evento the live chickens, to be dressed at the sugar house. Fresh sugar waterwould be furnished to cook the chickens in, which gave them the mostdelicious flavor, or be table drawn, then stuffed with the most deliciousdressing flavored by sugar water, with the feathers on. Then a clay mudbatter would be made, the mud thoroughly mixed into the feathers to makea large mud ball for baking. A place was made between the kettles in thered hot coals, for this process, When done a club was used to crack theshell. When taken out, off came the feathers, the chicken as clean ashand picked, ready to be served at the party.
My wife often related, that when she was a girl, she often went up tovisit her Aunt Mertie, also in her girlhood. And how they would ride "OldJack" the horse to the grinding machine. This machine ground the mud upto the consistency that was needed to make the crocks on the turn-table.
This machine was manual driven, the operator sitting upon a small seat.This rotary table was driven by the operator's legs and feet, while heworked the mud with his hands into shape, the crocks were upon the top ofthis rotary-turn-table. It looked easy, but it was an "Art" withinitself.