Homer Morgan Crafts
Homer Morgan Crafts was born in July 1836 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, to Chester Crafts and Martha Morgan. His father was an inn keeper who owned $9,204 of real estate in 1850. His mother died in the late 1830s, and his father married Olive Day in May 1843. Crafts grew grew up and attended school in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He married Roxanna Forehand in the late 1850s. By 1860, Crafts was living in Claremont, New Hampshire, and working as a merchant. He owned $2,500 of personal property.
 
He enlisted in the Union army on May 21, 1861, and he mustered in as a sergeant in Company I of the 2nd New Hampshire Infantry on June 7. As he explained in June 1861, the "way I come to enlist into the United States Service was I had a good office offered me, and times being so very hard and I thought I might run some risk of my life for the sake of the neadful which we are all after." He took part in the First Battle of Manassas and the Battle of Williamsburg, and he was discharged for disability on May 28, 1862. By 1870, he had returned to his parents’ household in Holyoke. He died in Northampton, Massachusetts, on August 13, 1872.
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(1658)Crafts, Homer Morgan1836-071872-08-13
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Sergeant
  • Rank out: Sergeant
  • Rank highest: Sergeant
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 15

  • (5664) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Chester Crafts, 1 May 1862
  • (5665) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Edward R. Crafts, 30 March 1862
  • (5666) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Chester Crafts, 11 March 1862
  • (5667) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Chester Crafts, 28 September 1861
  • (5668) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Chester Crafts, 20 August 1861
  • (5669) [associated with] ~ John T. Graham to Roxana Crafts, 5 August 1861
  • (5670) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Chester Crafts, 11 July 1861
  • (5671) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Unknown, 26 June 1861
  • (5672) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Chester Crafts, 9 June 1861
  • (5673) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Olive L. Crafts, 9 August 1865
  • (5674) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Chester Crafts, 30 April 1865
  • (5676) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Chester Crafts, 18 May 1862
  • (5677) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Chester Crafts, 5 August 1859
  • (6202) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Unknown, undated
  • (6203) [writer] ~ Homer M. Crafts to Chester Crafts, 6 July 186X

People - Records: 4

  • (1659) Crafts, Chester is the [parent of] (1658) Crafts, Homer Morgan
  • (1660) Crafts, Edward Rensselaer is the [sibling of] (1658) Crafts, Homer Morgan
  • (1661) Crafts, Roxana is the [wife of] (1658) Crafts, Homer Morgan
  • (1663) Crafts, Olive Louisa is the [step-parent of] (1658) Crafts, Homer Morgan

Places - Records: 2

  • (1377) [birth] ~ West Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
  • (504) [death] ~ Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (346) [enlisted] [I] ~ 2nd New Hampshire Infantry
SOURCES

1850, 1860, and 1870 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Town Birth Records, 1620-1850, available from Ancestry.com; Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1861-1904, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, available from Ancestry.com; Homer M. Crafts to Chester Crafts, 9 June 1861, DL0919.013, Nau Collection