Garret Alonzo Empie
Garret Alonzo Empie was born around 1833 in Sharon, New York, to John Empire. His father was a farmer who owned $3,540 of real estate in 1850. He grew up and attended school in Sharon. He married Emma Pool in the 1850s, and they had at least two children: Elizabeth, born around 1857; Charles, born around 1859.
He enlisted in the Union army on September 27, 1864, and he mustered in as a private in Company E of the 175th New York Infantry later that day. According to his enlistment records, he was 5 feet, 9 inches tall, with dark hair and gray eyes. The regiment took part in the Carolinas campaign, and he mustered out in Savannah, Georgia, on June 30, 1865.
Empie returned to Sharon after the war and earned a living as a farmer. By 1870, he owned $9,000 of real estate and $600 of personal property. His wife died sometime before 1880. By 1880, he was living in his daughter Elizabeth’s household in Maple Town, New York. He returned to Sharon in the 1880s. He was eventually admitted to the Soldiers’ Home in Dayton, Ohio, suffering from varicose veins, defective vision, obesity, and “debility of advancing years.” He died of heart disease in Dayton on January 25, 1906, on a “street car en route to [the] Home.”
DATABASE CONTENT
| (1851) | Empie, Garret Alonzo | 1833 | 1906-01-25 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Private
- Rank highest: Private
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 4
People - Records: 3
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (571) [enlisted] [E] ~ 175th New York Infantry
SOURCES
1850, 1870, 1880, and 1900 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, available from Ancestry.com.
