Thank you

Thank you to all the men and woman who have stood proud and side by side to help protect and provide all this safety and convenience we have now. We send much prayer to those that are serving today. Lets take a moment and bow our heads to the those involved in past wars.

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Mail: Ovid Historical Society
P. O. Box 4
Ovid, MI 48866

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If you know of someone that was in the Civil War and was buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery and not listed please contact us. Thank you.

List of brave men who served and died in the Civil War that are buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Ovid MI

We are researching to find all the men who served from Ovid.

 Burdick, Leander D. 15th Infantry, Company D
Cross, James P. 11th Cavalry, Company B
Cross, John B. 1st Cavalry, Company D
Davis, Reuben P. 27th Infantry, Company I
Dewitt, Walter C. 11th Cavalry, Company B
Eaton, Abraham M. 1st Cavalry, Company D
Gibson, George 1st Cavalry, Company D
House, Jacob 1st Cavalry, Company D
Kingsley, George D. 5th Cavalry, Company D

Ledyard, John W. 5th Cavalry, Company D
Marvin, George C. 10th Infantry, Company C
McCarty, Henry L. 24th Infantry, Company K
Parker, William B. 2nd Infantry, Company G
Potter, Henry A. 4th Cavalry, Company B
Sexton, Zepaniah 2nd Infantry, Company D
Thompson, William H. 4th Cavalry, Company G
Wilson, Harvey 2nd Cavalry, Company G

CIVIL WAR
15Oth ANNIVERSARY

Reed's Bridge September 18th 1863

Former State Senator
Adam Beattie, Ovid

Meet Captain Adam Beattie (born c. 1833 in or near Seneca, New York) of the New York 26th Independent Battery, Light Artillery Barnes’ Rifle Battery during the American Civil War.

At the age of 29 years old, on November 28, 1862, Beattie was mustered into the New York 26th Independent Battery (Light Artillery) as a 2nd Lieutenant. He moved up the ranks to Vice First Lieutenant, then to Captain of the of the Battery on March 29, 1863. He received an honorable discharge on September 12, 1865 and mustered out to New Orleans. He went back home to his family in Seneca, New York. His first child was born in 1865, Willard Grant Beattie.

Beattie made his way to Ovid Michigan, along with many other residents of Seneca Falls County, New York.

He was a grocer, ran for school board, and became Ovid's postmaster.

George Fox, a Civil War friend followed Beattie to Ovid on February 13, 1871. In 1899, the First Congregational Church was moved by oxen and was turned to face Main Street and is still that way today. Fox was the master carpenter on a 22-man team building that provided that service.

Adam Beattie died at age 59 on June 26, 1893. Adam Beattie was married three times: first to Mary E. Johnson, then to Kate A. Hann (July 1843 - 10 September 1879) on November 1, 1869 ; and finally to Mary E. Hagin (1840 - April 1918) on April 3, 1883.

As you enter the Maple Grove Cemetery, you will see tombstones of the first settlers who had lived in the Ovid area. Adam Beattie, George Fox, Mary E. Hagin, and Kate A. Hann are all buried in there. Adam shares a large granite monument with his second wife Kate. His third wife Mary E. Hagin is buried nearby in an unmarked grave.

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OVID HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S PRESIDENT

Our very own Harold Goodrich, President of the Ovid Historical Society, had an ancestor who helped in the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. His great grandfather Thomas Goodrich, was in the 4TH MICHIGAN CAVALRY company B. Thomas was from from Duplain, MI .

OVID MEN

Meet some of the Ovid men that served during the Civil War

4th Michigan Cavalry
COMPANY "B" - Men from Ovid area
2nd Lieutenant Carter, Julius M.

Adams, John
Bair, William
Bigelow, Levi
Doyne, Robert F.
Egleston, William R.
Fishbeck, Levi
Gilbert, John N.
Hall, Phillip
Hammond, William
Hempsted, Samuel
Jones, Franklin S.
Knowles, Hiram J.

McClintock, George
Potter, Henry A.
Ryan, Henry
Shepard, Alpheus F.
Smith, Charles H.
Smith, Edwin B.
Smith, Norman
Smith, Worden D.
Southworth, Lorenzo T.
Starkweather, Charles A.
Wilcox, Lewis H.
Wood, William H.

I ask you to remember these men for they risked their life to help fight for freedom. We should get to know these men for they were from Ovid. They also were the men that served in the regiment credited for capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

On May 10, 1865, one formerly known president of the Confederacy was captured at Irwinsville in southern Georgia. The 4th Michigan Cavalry was ordered to proceed as quickly as possible to Spaulding, Georgia to guard the Okmulgee River. There was news that President Davis was fleeing eastward.

One Col. Benjamin Pritchard was reported to believe that Davis had already crossed the river. He learned that the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry was in pursuit. The 4th Michigan Cavalry followed the river to Irwinsville. Upon following the river they discovered Davis had not yet passed. That morning both the 4th Michigan Cavalry and the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry captured Davis. 

HENRY ALBERT POTTER

HENRY ALBERT POTTER
CAPTAIN: 4TH MICHIGAN CAVALRYLetters were written and survived over time. Henry Potter wrote during the Civil War years. As the letter were read a mystery unravels. A descendant of the Potters has transcribed the letters written. They maybe found on the internet.  http//freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
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