Born
in Dover, Ohio on 13 Apr 1838, Bill was a
carpenter who married Catherine Moore, the
daughter of Issac and Elizabeth (Cook) on 09 Jun
1861. Less than six months later he joined the
80th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was a private in
Company C and fought in fifteen of the hardest
battles of the Civil War and at least 25
skirmishes, some of which were the Seige and
Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, the Yazoo Pass
Expedition, the Seige of Vicksburg, the Battle
and Seige of Atlanta, and was also t the Seige of
Savannah.
He
served for three years and three months and
afterwards returned to the trade of carpenter. He
was the father of William, George, Wealthy,
Charles, Emmet, Clara and Harvey Crites.
His
wife Catherine passed away on 08 Jan 1919 at the
age of seventy-seven. William passed away at the
age of eighty-seven on 08 Jul 1925 in Dover where
he had lived all of his life.
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