Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Stocum, Hiram B. 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net August 10, 2012, 11:16 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Tuesday, December 29, 1925 Hiram Stocum, of Portland, served all through the Civil war; stepped aside as a comrade, wounded by an enemy shell, fell at his feet; marched with Sherman to the sea, and came home without even a scratch; only to meet with an accident 60 years later, while at work in his home, causing his death. Mr. Stocum, who was 84, had gone to the basement of his home to fix the furnace. He fell and sustained an injury to his hip. Four days after the fall he passed away. A member of Company A, Twenty-first Michigan infantry, he was one of the few survivors of that regiment. He was born in eastern New York and at the age of 19 located at Muir. In 1862 he enlisted and went to the camp at Prairie Creek, where the company was recruited. He was in a number of important engagements during the war, returning to this county at its close. In 1868 he married Sarah E. Burriss, who survives him. There are five children, William B., of Portland, Rollen H., and Cortis C. of Los Angeles; John G., of Redford, and Mrs. J. T. Warford, of Lansing. Though he did not become a resident of Portland until there years ago, he had lived close by from the time of his marriage. For many years he was on a farm in Orange, then moved to one near Mulliken, where he remained 20 years. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/s/stocum18695nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb