Acton Memorial Library Civil War Archives

Civil War Records of Augustus Severence

Service

Co.	Regiment / Ship	From	To	Residence/ Credit	Occupation	Notes
C	1st Ma. Cav.	Private; enl. Sept. 9, 1861; must. Sept. 19, 1861	died Nov. 30, 1863	Watertown	farmer	age 37; prisoner June 17, 1863, Aldie, Va., as Corpl.; prisoner Oct. 14, 1863, Auburn, Va.; died of disease Nov. 30, 1863, at Richmond, Va., a Prisoner of War.
MASSCW, 6:153 ____ From: Watertown's Military History (Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1907): 181:

Pension

Co.	Regiment	Date Filed	Type	App. No.	Cert. No.	State	Beneficiary/Remarks
C	1st Ma. Cav.	1864	Widow	46980	24666		Mary Severance

Grand Army of the Republic

x

Death

Date	died of disease Nov. 30, 1863, at Richmond, Va., a Prisoner of War.
Place
Age
Cause
Obituary
Funeral
Burial	Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, Mass.
Survived by

Additional Information

Augustus Severance, age 26, a laborer, is recorded as an inhabitant of Stow in the 1850 federal census (dwelling no. 65/72) ("1850 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

The marriage of Augustus Severance, resident of Stow, and Mary Loker, resident of Bolton, is recorded in the marriage register for the town of Marlborough (date unclear--May 6, 1851?) (“Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910,” AmericanAncestors.org.)

Augustus Severance, age 33, born in Vermont, and Mary Severance, age 37, were recorded in the 1855 Massachusetts State Census for Watertown (dwelling no. 390/466)  (“Massachusetts State Census Transcriptions for 1855 and 1865,” AmericanAncestors.org.)

Augustus B. Severance, age 36, a car driver, born in NH, Mary, age 35, born in Mass., and Ellen, age 5 are recorded as inhabitants of Watertown in the 1860 federal census ("1860 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

Mary Severance, age 50, born in Natick, and Ellen Severance, age 10, born in Waltham, were recorded in the 1865 Massachusetts State Census for Watertown (dwelling no. 390/466) (“Massachusetts State Census Transcriptions for 1855 and 1865,” AmericanAncestors.org. )

Mary T. Severance, age 83, of Hudson, was brought to Acton for burial on May 4, 1897 (1896/97 annual report for the Town of Acton, p. 38).

__

Portrait above from: Benjamin W. Crowninshield, A History of the First Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891): 344. Digitial edition at: http://www.archive.org/details/historyoffirstre00crow.

 

* Note: PDF files can be rotated on screen by using the Adobe Reader "Rotate Clockwise" tool. 
To add the tool to the Adobe Reader toolbar, right-click on the toolbar, click "More Tools" and check "Rotate Clockwise" to add the tool to the Adobe Reader toolbar."