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Silas Placeway served in the Civil War and attained the rank of Corporal in Company D, 15th Regiment of the Michigan Volunteer Infantry. He received a pension, cert. # 427028, per records found in the National Archives, Washington, DC. Silas was married on 1 January 1867 at Hamburg Township, Livingston County, Michigan to Louisa A. Collins, daughter of Norman Collins and his wife, Sarah D. Dayton. The service was preformed by Oliver J. Perrin, a Minister of the Gospel, and witnessed by Norman Collins and William Placeway. They lived in Hamburg Township until 1874 and removed to St. Louis, Gratiot County, where they remained for the rest of their lives. Silas died 26 December 1894 at the age of 54 years from heart failure, and his wife, Louisa died 27 February 1898, both are buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery in St. Louis, Gratiot County Sources;
01.) Marriage found in the Marriage Records of Livingston County, Michigan, Vol. 3, page 191 - 1865.
02.) Death of Silas Placeway found in the Death Records of Gratiot County, Michigan, book-A, page 135.
03.) The burial found in the Cemetery Records of Gratiot County, Michigan, at the DAR Library, show
Silas and his wife, Louisa in the Oak Grove Cemetery at St. Louis, Gratiot County.
04.) The Collins-Cadwell Genealogy by Margaret U. Lofquist, published by Gateway Press Inc.,
Baltimore Maryland, 1983 pages 143, 151, 158, 160, and 161.
05.) The Civil War Pension File of Silas Placeway # 427028 at the National Archives in
Washington, DC.
06.) In the 1850 and 1860 federal Census of Hamburg Township, Livingston County,
Michigan, Silas was living in the household of his father, William Placeway.
07.) The 1870 Federal Census of Hamburg Township, Livingston County, Michigan, page 13,
Silas Placeway, head of house, age 30 b. MI
Louisa, wife, age 28 b. NY
Inez, dau., age 2 b. MI
Howard, son, age 3 mos. b. MI
08.) The History of Livingston County Michigan, published by Everts & Abbott 1880, page 86, states
Silas Placeway enlisted 1 February 1862, Co. D 15 Infantry, Michigan Volunteers and mustered out
13 August 1865.
09.) Land Owners and Settlers of Livingston County, Michigan 1820 to 1870's, by Milton Charboneau,
page 588: Silas Placeway and wife Louisa A., buys land in Sec. 29, Hamburg, SE-SW, Mar. 7, 1867,
of same. Sells in 1872 of same. In census of Hamburg, 1850 & 1860. |