Biography of Alfred S. Willey :Pittsfield, Merrimack County, New Hampshire

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Submitted by: Jody Goodson  kestrell@prodigy.net
Date: May 14, 2001
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From the Book
'History of Pittsfield, N. H. in the Rebellion'
by H. L. Robinson, published 1893

Note: A photograph of Alfred is in the book.

Page 164

ALFRED S. WILLEY
was the oldest brother of the above (Hazen W. Willey). Alfred was horn in 
Barnstead, and moved to Pittsfield with his parents about the year 1835. He
married Miss Susan Clark, and they had seven children, when she died. He
afterwards married Mrs. Nancy (Young) Emerson. He was a shoemaker by trade
and a very industrious man. In the fall of 1864 he enlisted in Company C,
Eighteenth New Hampshire volunteers. After serving until nearly the close
of the war he was taken sick, was discharged for disability, came home, and
was a great sufferer for many years before he died, October 16, 1880, in
Pittsfield.