BIO:  Levi LAYDOM, Reading Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 504

LEVI LAYDOM, farmer, P. O. New Chester, was born in Adams County, Penn., 
December 31, 1826, and is a son of John and Rebecca (Chronister) Laydom, natives 
of Pennsylvania, the former of whom, a farmer by occupation, died in January, 
1878.  Levi was reared on a farm, and remained at home until the war broke out.  
In 1862 he was drafted in Company F, Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, served 
ten months, and participated in the battle of the “Deserted House,” in Virginia.  
His draft expired in July, 1863, when he was honorably discharged.  He was again 
drafted in November, 1864, and served until the close of the war, when he was 
discharged.  He returned home, engaged in farming, and now owns seventy-five 
acres of good land.  He married, May 9, 1877, Eliza A. Myers.  He and his wife 
are members of the church.