Francis Hiram Arms
Francis Hiram Arms was born around 1834 in Hebron, Connecticut, to Hiram P. Arms and Lucy Ann Wadhams. His mother died on July 3, 1837, and his father remarried the following year. He attended school in Norwich, Connecticut, and he married Emily Meekins on January 3, 1860. She apparently died in the early 1860s.
 
In 1864, he received an appointment as an acting assistant paymaster in the United States Navy. He served until January 26, 1866. He married Grace Turner on April 11, 1865, and they had at least three children: Frank, born around 1867; Alice, born on June 3, 1876; and Guy, born on April 5, 1882. They lived in New London, Connecticut. He returned to the navy in August 1866, receiving an appointment as a passed assistant paymaster. He was promoted to paymaster in 1871. The family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1870s. He died on March 16, 1889, when the USS Vandalia sank near Apia, Samoa.  
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(2725)Arms, Francis Hiram18341889-3-16
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Sailor
  • Rank in: Acting Assistant Paymaster
  • Rank out: Acting Assistant Paymaster
  • Rank highest: Acting Assistant Paymaster
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 5

  • (7705) [recipient] ~ Charles J. Arms to Francis H. Arms, 28 November 1859
  • (8555) [associated with] ~ Charles J. Arms to Hiram P. Arms, 19 October 1859
  • (8769) [associated with] ~ Charles J. Arms to Hiram P. Arms, 26 May 1862
  • (8770) [associated with] ~ Charles J. Arms to Hiram P. Arms, 12 May 1862
  • (8983) [associated with] ~ Charles J. Arms to Hiram P. Arms, 22 January 1862

People - Records: 4

  • (2725) Arms, Francis Hiram is the [half sibling of] (2603) Arms, Charles Jesup
  • (2725) Arms, Francis Hiram is the [half sibling of] (3331) Arms, Theodore Winthrop
  • (2724) Arms, Hiram Phelps is the [parent of] (2725) Arms, Francis Hiram
  • (2892) Arms, Abby Jane is the [step-parent of] (2725) Arms, Francis Hiram

Places - Records: 2

  • (2817) [birth] ~ Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut
  • (3266) [death] ~ Apia, Samoa

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (266) [officer] ~ Union Navy
SOURCES

1850, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915, available from Ancestry.com; Officers of the Continental and U.S., Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-1900, available from Ancestry.com; Widow’s Pension Record of Alice T. Arms, available from Fold3.com