Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Servis, Orlando V, 1843 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com December 7, 2006, 10:12 pm

Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

ORLANDO V. SERVIS.

    Orlando V. Servis, a prominent and well-known farmer of Section 25, Eagle
Creek township, has made Lake county the scene of his quiet and successful
endeavors ever since beginning his active career, and the township where he now
resides is also his birthplace, so that sixty odd years of residence has made
Lake county the most particular and dearest spot of the inhabited globe to him.
The most strenuous part of Mr. Servis's life, however, was passed away from the
peaceful limits of Lake county, in the daily marches and battles of the great
Rebellion, in which he was one of the faithful soldiers of the Union and gave
over four years' of conscientious service for its integrity.

    This veteran soldier and successful farmer was born in Eagle Creek township,
Lake county, September 12, 1843, being the sixth of the eight children, four
sons and four daughters, born to Orlando V. and Eliza (Flint) Servis, both
natives of New York state. His father came to Lake county in the thirties, and
located on a tract of land near Southeast Grove in Eagle Creek township, where
he improved and developed a fine farm. He died at Hebron, in Porter county, when
about seventy-five years old. He was a prominent member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, for some years being the most influential supporter of his
church. He was a Whig and Republican in politics, and held various local
offices, such as township trustee, etc. His wife also died at Hebron at the age
of seventy-five. Four of their children died when young.

    Mr. Servis was reared in his native township, receiving his schooling at
Southeast Grove. In 1861 he enlisted in Company E, Ninth Indiana Infantry, and
served two years as private and was then made first duty sergeant of his
company. At the end of his first term of three years' enlistment he re-enlisted
in the same company and served till the end of the war. He participated at the
siege of Corinth, at Pittsburg Landing, Stone River and Chickamauga, and was
with Sherman until wounded at Pine Mountain, Georgia, a gunshot wound keeping
him in Hospital No. 1 at Nashville for three months, after which he was sent
home for thirty days, and rejoined his regiment at Pulaski, Tennessee. He was
under Thomas at the battles of Nashville and Franklin. He had also been wounded
at the battle of Resaca, a cannon ball passing between his knees and inflicting
a severe injury to his left knee. In all he served four years and two months,
and received his honorable discharge at Camp Stanley, Texas, and was mustered
out at Indianapolis, Indiana.

    On his return from the army he bought the farm of one hundred and sixty
acres where he now resides, and where he carries on general farming, being one
of the most progressive and successful men of his class in the vicinity. He
affiliates with Burnham Post, G. A. R., at Lowell, and is a stanch Republican,
although he never allows his name to be presented for office. He married, in
1870, Miss Nancy A. Pearce, a daughter of Michael and Mary J. Pearce, extended
mention of which worthy couple will be found in the biography of their son, John
Pearce. Mr. and Mrs. Servis have one child, Mabel, at home, who has completed
the eighth grade of the public schools and has taken instruction in music.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/lake/bios/servis405gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/

File size: 4.2 Kb