WILLIAM H. HOYT

Battery "H" 1st West Virginia Light Artillery

Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty

1850 Marshall County Census
HOYT (1160)
Shepherd...Farmer...29-M...VA
Susan...25-F...VA
William...4-M...VA
Mary J...2-F...VA
James...2mo.-M...VA

1860 Marshall County Census
HOYT (1994)
Shepherd...35-wm...miner...VA
Susan...33-wf...VA
William...12-wm...VA
Mary V...11-wf...VA
James...8-wm...VA
Milton...4-wm...VA

Service Record: Substitute. At age 17 years 3 months, enrolled for one year & mustered in Aug. 15, 1864 at Wheeling. Captured at New Creek Nov. 28, 1864; confined at Richmond, Dec. 7, 1864. Paroled at Richmond Feb. 15, 1865; to Camp Chase, O., Feb. 19, 1865. He had Typhoid Fever. On Feb. 25, 1865, the doctor at Camp Chase said he was unfit for travel. But he evidently made it home and died there on March 30, 1865 while on furlough from Camp Chase. “Born in Marshall Co., W.Va.” “Died Benwood, W.Va. Mar. 30, 1865.”

Death Notice, Wheeling Intelligencer, Apr. 1, 1865: “W. H. Hoyt, Company H, 1st W.Va. Light Artillery, 30 March 1865, at Benwood, W.Va. of Typhoid Fever.”

Based on the 1850 & 1860 census records of Union District, Marshall County, he was the son of Shepherd and Susan (Huggins) Hoyt. The father is listed in the McMechen Cemetery records, presented on the Marshall County WVGenWeb site. According to Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1861-1904, a tombstone was ordered for this soldier’s grave at McMechen Cemetery on June 10, 1903.

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