Ezra E. Spencer (1842 - 1926)

Ancestors

Biography

Ezra enlisted during Civil War at age 17 at Rhinebeck Dutchess County NY on 1 Sept 1862 and mustered into Musician Co F 150 Regt Inf 11 Oct 1862. He was promoted to Full Private on 15 Apr 1864. While in GA he contracted Rheumatism. Ezra stood 5'-5" tall and had light hair color. He mustered out on 08 Jun 1865 at Washington DC and was discharged at Poughkeepsie NY 18 June 1865 at the close of war. In 1870 he lived in Saugerties NY with the Snyder family and worked as a boatman. In 1873 he worked as a carpenter in Kingston NY. While visiting a Veteran's facility in Detroit Mich in 1880, he contracted Acute Orchitis and was placed in the Disabled Veteran's Home in Bath NY in October 1880. At that time he was incorrectly listed as a Widower. He was at the Bath facility between 1880-1885 and again in 1887, 1895 and 1919. He was also housed at Leavenworth KS Disabled Volunteer Solder's Home 1886 and between 1888 and 1890. he was housed at Hampton VA Disabled Volunteer Solder's Home 1891-1894. In 1900 he was living with his sister Abbie M. (Spencer) Dubois in Saugerties NY. He died at Bath NY facility.

Ezra is buried at the former St. Luke's Cemetery in Clermont, now owned by the Town of Clermont. Also buried there is his sister Sarah M. (Spencer) Thomas, Sarah's son Charles D. Thomas, and another of his sisters Melinda D. (Spencer) Hunt, Melinda's husband Ambrose and two of their four sons.

Sources

A Private Spencer Family Line Register authored by James D. Spencer (1883-aft 1930); Various Federal and Military records; 1862 The Dutchess County Regiment; NY State Veterans register; 1870 and 1900 US Census; 1873 Kingston NY City Directory; Clermont Cemetery Grave Memorial stone. No NY State Death Certificate was recorded because he died in a Federal facility.

(1) Various US and NY State Census records*; (2) Various historical newspapers published by the Kingston [NY] Daily Freeman*, (3) Various historic City Directories*; (4) NY State, Ulster County and Columbia County records available via their internet sites and at their accessible storage locations; (5) Vital birth, marriage and death records obtained from the NY State Dept Health; (6) Vital record indexes available at the NY State Archives Department in Albany NY; (7) Field visits to and records obtained from various cemeteries; (8) and original hand-typed Thomas and Spencer Family data records prepared by James D, Spencer [1883-1954] and given to the Brown family of eastern NYS in the early 1900's.

• indicates data variously sourced at internet sites such as, but not limited to the following: American Ancestors.org; Ancestry.com; Family Search.org; Find-a-Grave.com, Gedcom,com; Genweb.com; fultonhistory.com.