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About Pvt. (USA) Hiram Warren Varney
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17890124/hiram-warren-varney
HIRAM W. VARNEY, of section 20, Warner Township, Clark County, was born in Somerset County, Maine, June 23, 1836, the son of Levi and Harriet (Steward) Varney. The former died when Hiram was six years old, and the latter died on the old homestead in 1875. They were the parents of eight children, five of whom are now living: Harriet, Levi, Hannah, Elbridge and Hiram. One son, the next to older than our subject, Charles, went to California in 1849, thence to Australia the next year, and it was reported that he then started to Callao, South America, but as he was never heard from it is supposed that he was murdered for his money. The other two were Warren and Joseph the former died about 1846, and the latter in 1882 in Maine. Hiram W., our subject, was reared on a farm and received his education in the common schools of his native county. In 1854 he went, via Panama, to California, where he engaged in mining mostly until 1859, and in that year returned to his native county. He was a soldier in the late war, in Company A, Nineteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, serving nearly three years. He was in the first battle of Fredericksburg was then detailed to the Ambulance Corps, and was afterward attached to the headquarters of the Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Brigade, driving the headquarters team with the hospital stores for the field. He accidentally shot the finger off his right hand while in service which was afterward amputated. He was also injured in the right foot by an ambulance wagon passing over it, and now draws a pension for each injury.
After the war Mr. Varney came to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, in August, 1865, and remained until 1868, when he removed to Mitchell County, Iowa, and was there engaged in farming two years, and also manufactured milk-safes and fanning-mills one year. In 1871 he returned to La Crosse, and in the spring of 1873 came to this county, settling on his present farm of eighty acres, forty-five of which is cleared. It was then a dense woods, and wild animals and Indians abounded, but the latter never annoyed Mr. Varney.
He was married July 13, 1861, to Cynthia E. Withee, who was born in Somerset County, Maine, on the same farm on which her father was born. Her parents were Zachariah and Polly (Longley) Withee, both natives of Maine and now deceased. They had seven children, three of whom are now living: Hiram, Levi and Cynthia.
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Pvt. (USA) Hiram Warren Varney's Timeline
| 1836 |
June 23, 1836
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Somerset County, ME, United States
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| 1869 |
1869
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| 1902 |
1902
Age 65
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