John Henry Jewett (1818 - 1890)

Born 3 Nov 1818 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

Ancestors

Died 11 Dec 1890 at age 72 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Private John Jewett served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Sept. 19, 1862
Mustered out: July 2, 1863
Side: USA
Regiment(s): 5th Mass. Infantry

John Henry was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1818, the son of Cummings Jewett and Mary Burgen^[1]

He married Mary E. Houston, also of Charlestown, in 1845, at the Universalist Church in Charlestown.^[2] The couple resided in Charlestown, where John worked as a tailor.^[3] They had two children:

• Mary Ann, b. 1846
• Henry Cummings, 1849-1906

By 1860, the family lived in Somerville, Massachusetts, where John worked at a clothing store.^[4] His mother resided with the family.

John was 43 years old when he enlisted to serve in the Civil War. He mustered in as a private in Company B of the 5th Mass. Infantry, on September 19, 1862. He served a 9-month term, during which he traveled with his men to North Carolina. He was discharged at the end of his term, on July 2, 1863.^[5] His war service left him with chronic dysentery.^[6]

At the time of the 1880 census, John is listed as divorced. He lived in Boston, with his son and daughter-in-law. He continued to work as a merchant tailor.^[7]

He died in 1890, at his home in Allston Square, Boston, at the age of 72 years.^[8] He is buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Brighton, Massachusetts, with his son Henry and his family.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-DPB8 : 10 November 2020), John H Jewett, 3 Nov 1818
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHCB-4Z8 : 28 July 2021), J. Henry Jewett, 1845.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD91-WD8 : 22 December 2020), John H Jewett, Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZHT-TB7 : 18 February 2021), John H Jewett, 1860.
5. ↑ The American Civil War Research Database", accessed 4 January 2022, John H. Jewett
6. ↑ "United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8SL-4TF : 8 March 2021), John H Jewett, 1890
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHX1-HPV : 14 January 2022), John H. Jewett in household of Henry C. Jewett, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
8. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N71P-MLR : 2 March 2021), John H. Jewett, 11 Dec 1890;
9. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #162645727 Evergreen Cemetery, Brighton, Massachusetts

• Jewett, Frederic Clarke, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908. Pg. 354.