EZRA YOHO

Company "C" 3rd West Virginia Cavalry

Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty

Service Record: “Killed in action Aug. 7, 1864 at Moorefield, Va.” At age 21, enlisted & mustered in Feb. 23, 1864 at Charleston, W.Va. He was a farmer, “born Virginia.”

According to a family biography written by the late Denver Yoho, and published in History of Marshall County West Virginia 1984, Ezra was only 15 when he enlisted. - Unfortunately, his record does not specifically state which county he was born in, but it seems likely that he was born in Marshall County. He was born in 1849, the oldest child of Jeremiah Yoho, born in Marshall County, and Hannah Anderson, born in Ohio. Just before the 1850 census, they moved with infant Ezra to Monroe County, Ohio; he was their only child in that census, and his birthplace is stated as Virginia. In Ohio, Jeremiah and Hannah had additional children - Eliza, Julia, Amanda Rachel, and Charles – before the mother, Hannah, died in 1857.

Jeremiah married Jane Henthorn and they lived in Gallia, Ohio. Ezra is not found in the 1860 census, but Denver Yoho wrote that Jeremiah’s parents, George and Rachel (Garner) Yoho, raised Ezra’s brother, Charles, who was only four months old when his mother died. George Yoho owned a large farm in Marshall County, and since Ezra was born in Virginia, it seems probable that he was born at George’s home before his parents moved to Ohio. Alternatively, Ezra’s maternal grandparents, Eli and Rebecca (Atkinson) Anderson, were living in Wetzel County, and Ezra might have been born there. But Marshall County seems more likely, at least to this writer.

In 1890, Jeremiah Yoho received a government pension, based on Ezra’s service & death, and he received Certificate #267727.

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