Charles Wesley Dorsey (1827 - 1910)

Born 10 Nov 1827 in Lena, Miami, Ohio, United States

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Died 7 Dec 1910 at age 83 in McCool, York, Nebraska, United States

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Biography

Charles Wesley Dorsey was born on 10 Nov 1827 in Lena, Miami, Ohio to parents Silas Dorsey and Mary Elizabeth Smith. He married Elizabeth Ann Lindsay on 5 Aug 1847 in Miami, Ohio. Children: Joseph H, Jane, George V, Lorena, Gilbert, Martha A, Charles Newton, Della. He died on 7 Dec 1910 in Arborville, Nebraska.

He served in the National Guard during the Civil War, 147th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company F as a private in 1865

Obituary: "Miami Union, Troy, Miami County, Ohio, December 29, 1910: "DORSEY, CHARLES WESLEY - Charles Wesley Dorsey, who was born in Lena, this county, Nov. 10, 1827, died in McCool, Nebraska, December 7. He is survived by seven children. Mr. Dorsey was a veteran of the civil war. After the war he removed to the West and finally settled in Nebraska in 1875."

Sources

• US Federal Census 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900

• Veterans Schedules 1890

• Nebraska State Census Collection

• Nebraska Marriage Records

• Ohio Census

• Ohio County Marriage Records

• Scheduled US Federal Census Non-Population Schedules

• US Civil War Soldiers

• US Civil War Draft Registrations Records

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57850843