Erastus W. Everson = b.
Jan 1837 (? Probably in Dedham Ma ?)
1840 Jan 1 brother Frederick Otis “Oat” Everson born (where? 1840 census taken in summer 1840 lists family in Hanson)
1843 sister Sylvinia Everson born in Hanson MA (alternately spelled ‘Silvinia’)
1848 Feb 19 brother Herbert born in Hanson MA.
1848 Feb 21 brother Herbert died
1840 Jan 1 brother Frederick Otis “Oat” Everson born (where? 1840 census taken in summer 1840 lists family in Hanson)
1843 sister Sylvinia Everson born in Hanson MA (alternately spelled ‘Silvinia’)
1848 Feb 19 brother Herbert born in Hanson MA.
1848 Feb 21 brother Herbert died
18 ?? (teenager) Injured hand in hunting accident on Indian
Head River
1853 Oct 2
baptized into Hanson Baptist Church
1855 March 29
excluded (expelled) from Hanson Baptist Church
1860 living in Dedham – work as “copyist” - clerk at county court registry of deads
1861 Jan 27 sister Sylvania Everson married Ebenezer (E. Henry) Gurney in Hanson
1861 April 16 joined army = Company A, 3rd Infantry regiment Mass (Halifax Light Infantry)
1861 August 24 joined Company H, 18th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on and was then promoted to Full Sergeant 1st Class on the same day. With Cpt Joseph Collingwood (Plymouth fish dealer) commander
1861 Oct 27 niece Amy Gurney born
1861 Nov 19th brother Otis (Frederick O.) Everson married Rowena Orcutt in Hanson)
1860 living in Dedham – work as “copyist” - clerk at county court registry of deads
1861 Jan 27 sister Sylvania Everson married Ebenezer (E. Henry) Gurney in Hanson
1861 April 16 joined army = Company A, 3rd Infantry regiment Mass (Halifax Light Infantry)
1861 August 24 joined Company H, 18th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on and was then promoted to Full Sergeant 1st Class on the same day. With Cpt Joseph Collingwood (Plymouth fish dealer) commander
1861 Oct 27 niece Amy Gurney born
1861 Nov 19th brother Otis (Frederick O.) Everson married Rowena Orcutt in Hanson)
1862 June 5
court martialed and demoted to Private
1862 August 1 he was promoted to Full Lieutenant 2nd Class.
1862 August 30 he was wounded at the second Bull Run, VA. = contusion of left testicle from concussion of shell, various minor buckshot wounds
1862 October home on leave recuperating from wounds
1862 November return to Regiment near Falmouth Va
1862 December 13 wounded at Fredericksburg, VA. Charge on Marye’s Heights – gunshot to left thigh - Cpt Collingwood also wounded – in medic tent side-by-side (Collingwood dies on 12/24/1862)
1863 February 25 he was promoted to Full Lieutenant 1st Class.
1863 May action at Chancellorville, collapses to loss of blood from reopening of testicle wound
1863 June 16- July 25 home on furlough recuperating from wounds – misses battle of
1862 August 1 he was promoted to Full Lieutenant 2nd Class.
1862 August 30 he was wounded at the second Bull Run, VA. = contusion of left testicle from concussion of shell, various minor buckshot wounds
1862 October home on leave recuperating from wounds
1862 November return to Regiment near Falmouth Va
1862 December 13 wounded at Fredericksburg, VA. Charge on Marye’s Heights – gunshot to left thigh - Cpt Collingwood also wounded – in medic tent side-by-side (Collingwood dies on 12/24/1862)
1863 February 25 he was promoted to Full Lieutenant 1st Class.
1863 May action at Chancellorville, collapses to loss of blood from reopening of testicle wound
1863 June 16- July 25 home on furlough recuperating from wounds – misses battle of
Gettysburg
1863 July 26 – Aug 31
on duty at Draft Rendezvous Long Island Boston Harbor
1863 Sept – Dec
10
at Annapolis Navy Hospital recuperating
1863 December 10 he was honorably discharged from Company H, 18th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts
1863 December 11, - the following day - joined Company D, 20 Veteran Res. Corps, as a 1st Lieutenant.
1863 December 10 he was honorably discharged from Company H, 18th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts
1863 December 11, - the following day - joined Company D, 20 Veteran Res. Corps, as a 1st Lieutenant.
1864-Jan –thru mid-May
VRC barracks in Alexandria, DC and Baltimore
1864 May 22 thru 1865 May at Point Lookout POW camp as clerk & guard
1864 May 22 thru 1865 May at Point Lookout POW camp as clerk & guard
1864 May/June at
Camp Bradford, Baltimore.
1865 June thru 1865 Dec
at Camp Cadwalader Philadelphia mustering out troops.
1865 Dec 19th arrives in Dedham to wait orders
1865 Dec 26 receives order for Freedman’s Bureau
1866 April niece Ella Gurney born
1866 Dec sister Sylvinia died
1866 assigned as inspector general of South Carolina troups (18 months)
1867 June 19th – brother Otis (Frederick) dies – buried in Hanover MA.
1869 June 18th appointed Assistant Assessor (tax collector) So. Carolina
1870 July 20th appointed additionally ($5 per day extra plus travel expenses) aid to the Assessor 3rd District SC making survey of distilleries.
1870 Aug 29 appointed additionally Internal Revenue Gauger
1869 October 28 marries Harriet Fales of Dedham, Ma. (Erastus 31yr old, Harriet 25-30ish)
(three years’ work for Freedman’s Bureau ends in 1869, works with Internal Revenue Service after)
1870 Harriet meets Erastus’ parents – possibly for first time
1870 census – Erastus & Harriet in Anderson South Carolina boarding house
1870 October Erastus was an inadvertent witness to the Laurens County, SC riot and captured by Ku Klux Klan, narrowly escaped being murdered.
1870 moves to Columbia, SC – editor of Union, SC newspaper
1871 July 4 Erastus Everson was summoned by a government committee which was investigating the “Ku-Klux Klan conspiracy
1873 wins elected post as Columbia College (Univ S.Carolina) librarian & secretary
1875 May US Congress grants amnesty to all KKK defendants and exiles
1865 Dec 19th arrives in Dedham to wait orders
1865 Dec 26 receives order for Freedman’s Bureau
1866 April niece Ella Gurney born
1866 Dec sister Sylvinia died
1866 assigned as inspector general of South Carolina troups (18 months)
1867 June 19th – brother Otis (Frederick) dies – buried in Hanover MA.
1869 June 18th appointed Assistant Assessor (tax collector) So. Carolina
1870 July 20th appointed additionally ($5 per day extra plus travel expenses) aid to the Assessor 3rd District SC making survey of distilleries.
1870 Aug 29 appointed additionally Internal Revenue Gauger
1869 October 28 marries Harriet Fales of Dedham, Ma. (Erastus 31yr old, Harriet 25-30ish)
(three years’ work for Freedman’s Bureau ends in 1869, works with Internal Revenue Service after)
1870 Harriet meets Erastus’ parents – possibly for first time
1870 census – Erastus & Harriet in Anderson South Carolina boarding house
1870 October Erastus was an inadvertent witness to the Laurens County, SC riot and captured by Ku Klux Klan, narrowly escaped being murdered.
1870 moves to Columbia, SC – editor of Union, SC newspaper
1871 July 4 Erastus Everson was summoned by a government committee which was investigating the “Ku-Klux Klan conspiracy
1873 wins elected post as Columbia College (Univ S.Carolina) librarian & secretary
1875 May US Congress grants amnesty to all KKK defendants and exiles
1875 May abruptly leaves USC
position without notice
1877
in NY City working as an editor for N.Y. Graphic newspaper
1880 living in either Hanson (separated) or Dedham (married)
1882 living in Hanson while trying to secure/adjust disability pension
1882 Nov 1 returned to Dedham "for good".
1880 living in either Hanson (separated) or Dedham (married)
1882 living in Hanson while trying to secure/adjust disability pension
1882 Nov 1 returned to Dedham "for good".
1883
in Dedham working for Dedham Transcript newspaper
1884 June 30 father William dies
1884 June 30 father William dies
1886 Nov 9
niece Ella Gurney (20yrs old – 4 months pregnant) marries Channing
Howard
1887 April 9
grand-niece Blanch Howard born
1887 September Harriet dies [45 yrs old] listed as married– no children (burial in Dedham Ma). Dedham house in trust for Monroe/Fales family. Erastus is excluded.
1887 winter lives at Plymouth Rock Hotel on Coles Hill Plymouth while working at Registry of Deeds
1888 March 11 seen in Boston at Charles Hotel
1888 March 12 - ??? at least end April missing (for at least a month following Great Blizzard on 3/12/1888)(later explains he was “At Atlantic duck hunting”)
1889 May 9th (Ester) Rowena Everson (brother Otis’ widow) dies in Hanover MA.
1887 September Harriet dies [45 yrs old] listed as married– no children (burial in Dedham Ma). Dedham house in trust for Monroe/Fales family. Erastus is excluded.
1887 winter lives at Plymouth Rock Hotel on Coles Hill Plymouth while working at Registry of Deeds
1888 March 11 seen in Boston at Charles Hotel
1888 March 12 - ??? at least end April missing (for at least a month following Great Blizzard on 3/12/1888)(later explains he was “At Atlantic duck hunting”)
1889 May 9th (Ester) Rowena Everson (brother Otis’ widow) dies in Hanover MA.
1891 Jan 5
grand-niece Norma Howard born
1891-1892 living in Marshfield (Green Harbor/Brant Rock) MA. and member of newly created “Board of Health”
1891-1892 living in Marshfield (Green Harbor/Brant Rock) MA. and member of newly created “Board of Health”
1892 Jan 9 transfers
membership from J.A. Andrews Post #15 Boston to David Church Post #189 Marshfield
1892 Feb 8th Mother Salome dies. Estate goes to Erastus, & nieces Ella and Amy.
1893 Uncle Barnabus buys Green Harbor River island (later known alternately as Major’s Island or Everson’s Island) which Erastus uses for duck hunting guide business
1894 Marshfield directory – Erastus Everson – journalist
1895 meets Eleanor Collingwood at Grace Chapel Society event in Green Harbor
1896 March 26 sends letter to Mary Collingwood Peterson with account of events and her fathers being wounded at Fredericksburg
1897 Jan 5th – Erastus dies In Marshfield MA. – listed as “North on Green Harbor” (? North St. Brant Rock ?) Buried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery – Pembroke (Bryantville) MA with parents, sister Sylvinia, Brother-in-law Channing Howard (and therefore presumably niece Ella Gurney Howard, infant brother Herbert, and grand-niece Norma Howard
1897 April estate divided by nephew Fred W Everson, & nieces Amy (Gurney) Pinkerton & Ella (Gurney) Howard
$225 = value of house in Brant Rock, $65 = value of personal property
1892 Feb 8th Mother Salome dies. Estate goes to Erastus, & nieces Ella and Amy.
1893 Uncle Barnabus buys Green Harbor River island (later known alternately as Major’s Island or Everson’s Island) which Erastus uses for duck hunting guide business
1894 Marshfield directory – Erastus Everson – journalist
1895 meets Eleanor Collingwood at Grace Chapel Society event in Green Harbor
1896 March 26 sends letter to Mary Collingwood Peterson with account of events and her fathers being wounded at Fredericksburg
1897 Jan 5th – Erastus dies In Marshfield MA. – listed as “North on Green Harbor” (? North St. Brant Rock ?) Buried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery – Pembroke (Bryantville) MA with parents, sister Sylvinia, Brother-in-law Channing Howard (and therefore presumably niece Ella Gurney Howard, infant brother Herbert, and grand-niece Norma Howard
1897 April estate divided by nephew Fred W Everson, & nieces Amy (Gurney) Pinkerton & Ella (Gurney) Howard
$225 = value of house in Brant Rock, $65 = value of personal property
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