Private
Henry
Addison
aka Adison
Born about in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States
Son of Hezekiah Addison
and Sarah (Hollard) Addison
Brother of
James Addison, Mary Addison, David Addison, Philson Addison, Catharine (Addison) London, Sarah Addison, Caroline Addison, Ann Addison, John Addison, Flickinger Addison, Margaret A. (Addison) Reid and Hannah Addison
Husband of
Julia (Unknown) Addison
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 72
in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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Biography
Henry Addison is a part of US Black heritage.
Henry was born about 1837 in Pennsylvania.
At age 13, he was living with the white family of Reverend Amos A. McGinley in Metal, Pennsylvania.
He stood about 5 foot 9 inches (1.75m) tall with a dark complexion, brown eyes and black hair.
Occupation
- Mason
- Laborer
Military Service
Private in the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment, Company K. He was 25 years old, married and working as a mason when he enlisted on 6 May 1863 from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Mustered out 20 August 1865.
Company G Private William Ramer also enlisted from Shippensburg, so they may have known each other.
Residences
- 1850: Metal, Pennsylvania with Reverend Amos McGinley
- 1860: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania with his parents and siblings
- 1890: 13 Grove Street, Boston, Massachusetts
- 1900: 45 North Anderson St, Boston, Massachusetts with wife Julia and grandson Harry
Projects
Space:54th_Massachusetts_Volunteer_Infantry
Sources
- 1860 United States Federal Census Year: 1860; Census Place: Shippensburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1102; Page: 726; Family History Library Film: 805102
- 1890 United States Veterans Schedules The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Series Number: M123; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Record Group Number: 15; Census Year: 1890
- 1900 United States Federal Census Year: 1900; Census Place: Boston Ward 8, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Page: 9; Enumeration District: 1272
- Emilio, Luis Fenollosa. History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865. Boston, MA, 1894.
- Find a Grave: Henry Addison (1836 - 1909)
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Rejected matches › Henry Adams (abt.1838-)
Categories: USBH Free People of Color, Linked | Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts | Metal Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania | Shippensburg, Pennsylvania | 54th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry (Colored), United States Civil War | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Boston, Massachusetts | Cambridge, Massachusetts