Cook Family Ancestry Walter Rowe [38454] This title is just so we know which tree we are working in, as there are many families represented here.

Walter Rowe [38454]
(1829-1875)

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Spouses/Children:
Susan Ainor Mabie [39097]

Walter Rowe [38454]

Born: 20 Jun 1829, Brownville, Jefferson County, New York ³³⁵²
Marriage: Susan Ainor Mabie [39097] on 3 Jul 1856 ³³⁵²
Died: 25 Dec 1875, Cedar Springs, Solon Township, Kent County, Michigan at age 46 ³³⁵²
Buried: Solon Cemetery, , Kent County, Michigan, USA ³³⁵²

bullet General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogistï¿½, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTEï¿½ to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

bullet Birth Notes:

son of Ferdinand & Polly Rowe

bullet Death Notes:

Accidental. According to family legend he was out cutting
firewood and a Christmas tree with his sons Nelson and Allen
when a tree started falling on his horses. He was able to hold
the tree up until the horses had been moved but he couldn't get
out from under the tree. It fell, killing him.

bullet Noted events in his life were:

• Land: Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan, ,. ³³⁵² paid for and was granted a Patent to eighty acres of Public
Land by the General Land Office of the United States at Ionia,
Michigan

• MilService, 13 Aug 1862. ³³⁵² He enlisted as a Private in Company A of the Michigan Sixth
Cavalry Regiment at Grand Rapids, Michigan, leaving Susan to
care for their two small sons. The 6th Cavalry was part of the
Michigan Brigade serving under General George Armstrong Custer.
During a charge "at the Rebels while with his Company and in
action" on July 2, 1863 at the Battle of Hunterstown, near
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Walter was wounded by a minnie-ball
through the left shoulder. He also received "severe sabre cuts
on the head causing serious derangement of the intellectual
facilities", and a sabre stab wound in his back. He was
given a medical discharge Sept. 28, 1863 from a Hospital in
Pennsylvania and was ímustered out of the Army with his unit in
1865 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Walter married Susan Ainor Mabie [39097] [MRIN: 551604158], daughter of Amos C Mabie [39243] and Ainor Fisher [39107], on 3 Jul 1856.³³⁵² (Susan Ainor Mabie [39097] was born on 16 May 1839 in Naples, Ontario County, New York,³³⁵² died on 23 Mar 1927 in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, USA ³³⁵² and was buried in Solon Center Cemetery, Solon Township, Kent County, Michigan, USA.)