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Notes: Everett David CROCKER |
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NOTE 1: Picture
NOTE 2: Obituary
NOTE 3: DEATH CERTIFICATE: 6310710 Last Name: CROCKER First Name: EVERETT Middle Name: D Date of Death: Wednesday, December 18, 1963 Town of Death: West Bath Age at Death: 59 Years.
NOTE 4: Burial: 21 Dec 1990, Oak Grove Cemetery, Bath, ME
NOTE 5: Listed in the 1930 Federal Census NOTE 6: LETTER, Feb 3, 1958 "Dear Val, Just a few lines to let you know we are all well and hope this letter finds you the same how is everything going up there. why don't you write once in a while. How is sonny, David, and Ruthy and all the kids. If you want to call me on the phone call around 11:00 or 12:00 because after that Charlie is pretty well taken up and he has to have the phone clear. Well, Vel. dear. I cant think of much else to say except I love you with all my heart so will close with all my love Ev." NOTE 7: He was a commander of T.W. Hyde Post and member of Sons of Union Veterans, Bath, ME: T.W. Hyde POST: Thomas Worcester Hyde was born January 15, 1841 at Florence, Italy the only son of Zina Hyde of Bath who served as a Brigade Major in the War of 1812. Graduating from Bowdoin College in the class of 1861, he served three terms in the Maine Senate beginning in 1873 and culminating with a term as President in 1876. He also served as Mayor of Bath in 1876 and 1877, was President of Bath Iron Works and manufacturer of the famous Hyde Windlass. In addition to all these things, Thomas W. Hyde was, like Joshua Chamberlain, Hiram Berry and O.O. Howard, a genuine Maine Civil War hero. Returning to Maine from Chicago in 1861, he raised a company for the Seventh Maine Infantry, a regiment that he eventually commanded in the battles of Second Bull Run, Crampton’s Gap and Antietam. In the latter battle all but sixty-five men and three officers were casualties. At Antietam, Hyde had three horses shot out from under him. Following a return to Maine for recruitment purposes, he was appointed Acting Inspector General of the Left Division, Army of the Potomac and later as an aide-de-camp to the Commander of the Sixth Corps, General Sedgwick. He served with that unit at Gettysburg and Spottsylvania when he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He stayed with the Sixth Corps until his three-year enlistment had expired and then was commissioned Colonel of the First Maine Veteran Volunteers. Upon joining his regiment, he was, at the age of twenty-three, put in command of a brigade, leading the assault which finally broke the Confederate lines around Petersburg. Following Lee’s surrender he was sent with a column under Sheridan to pursue Joe Johnston in North Carolina. He was mustered out after four years of service in 1865 as a brevet Brigadier General at the age of twenty-four. |
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