#242   Augustus Alfred Chidsey

Born: 1842 Penn Yan, NY

Died: May 15, 1873 Detroit, Michigan

father: # 132 Ambrose H. Chidsey

mother: Almira Lewis

Married:Helen Buell January 15, 1866

Children:

#374 Charles Augustus Chidsey b: 1867 Detroit, Michigan; d: November 06, 1930 Detroit, Michigan; m: Margaret M. Davis b:November 30, 1870 Canada; d: October 14, 1965 Royal Oak, Mich.

#375  Frank L. Chidsey  b: Nov. 2, 1871, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; d: March 6, 1916, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; m: Margaret I.  1902, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan

#376  Clara May Chidsey  b: July 22, 1873; d: August 25, 1952; m: Frederick Charles Winkler June 27, 1895, b: May 03, 1870; d: June 18, 1937

Notes:

Update on the 1861 Holidays

This just in … Rich MacAlpine, who monitors the Penn Yan Democrat, has found an item that adds considerably to our knowledge of how Yates soldiers spent  the 1861 holidays:

Alfred Chidsey wrote a letter to the Penn Yan Democrat on Jan. 4, 1861, from Camp Griffin (near McLean, Virginia) describing how the “Keukas” celebrated the holidays:

“Christmas morning dawned bright and clear and gave promise of a fine   day. As the men turned out to reveille each had a kindly greeting of   ‘Merry Christmas’ for his neighbor. As breakfast call sounded, each man   proceeded to get his Christmas rations, the bill of fare of which I will   give you that your readers may compare it with their own sumptuous   ‘chicken fixins’: For breakfast: salt pork, bread and coffee… For   dinner: boiled beans, and hard crackers having the appearance of   basswood chips … For supper: salt junk, coffee and hard crackers! New   Years Day dragged its slow length along in style a little improved. On   that day, as the company came off dress parade and were marched into the   street of Company I, three cheers were proposed for Lieutenant Root in   consideration of his having furnished a savory oyster supper for the   whole company.”