CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - BIO: OSWALD E. GRAVELL (1881)

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 CRAWFORD COUNTY
HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, p.742-743
CHICAGO
BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS
186 DEARBORN STREET
1881

BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO

OSWALD E. GRAVELL, carriage manufacturer, Bucyrus, son of Thomas and Mary 
(Keys) Gravell, was born Sept. 12, 1844, in Hollidaysburg, Penn., and came 
with his parents, when but one year old, to Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He lived 
there until grown, going to school until 18 years old, part of the time 
with Indians, in the old council house, until it was burned. In May 1861, 
he volunteered in Co. D 15th O. V. I., and served through the war; was in 
some twenty general engagements including Shiloh. Murfreesboro (where he 
was a prisoner for a few minutes), Nashville, Mission Ridge, Chickamauga 
and all the battles of the Atlanta Campaign, was wounded in the right arm 
by a shell, at Burnt Hickory, in Georgia for which he now draws a pension. 
He was mustered out at Columbus, in December 1865, and afterward traveled 
over the States of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and the Indian 
Territory, returning to Bucyrus in 1868, where he learned carriage making 
with Jefferson Norton, serving for two years. He worked for a time ldren: 
Mary died in infancy: Flora, Hattie, Charles, Fernando and Byron, Flora 
married O. E. Gravell, the subject of this sketch; Hattie married Joseph 
Boure. The sons are residents of Bucyrus. The mother is still living and 
makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Boure, at Upper Sandusky.