PUFFER, Tisdale Amidon^{[1, 2]}

1829 - 1874  (44 years)

• Name	PUFFER, Tisdale Amidon
  Birth	29 May 1829	Readsboro, VT   [2]
  Gender	Male
  FindaGrave	FindAGrave Memorial 13451941
  Residence	1850	Hartsville, NY   [3]
  Milit-Beg	10 Sep 1864	Hartsville, NY   [4]
  Ref#	346  [2]
  _COLOR	11
  Death	3 May 1874	Pennfield, MI   [5]
  Burial	Pennfield, MI   [6]
  	Address: Hicks Cemetery
  Person ID	I16864	Puffers
  Last Modified	30 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	PUFFER, Tisdale,   b. 30 Mar 1799, Medway, MA d. 14 Sep 1874, Steuben County, NY (Age 75 years)
  Mother	AMIDON, Rosina Alcena,   b. 8 Aug 1803, Bennington, VT d. 14 Apr 1881, Hartsville, NY (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	5 Dec 1822	Readsboro, VT   [7]
  Family ID	F3972	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	GIFFORD, Mary Jane,   b. 21 Oct 1840, Berkshire County, MA d. 2 Apr 1917, Battle Creek, MI (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	21 Aug 1859	Nunda, NY   [8]
  Children	1. PUFFER, Ellsworth Hazzard,   b. 30 Jun 1862, Hornell, NY d. 15 Apr 1942, Battle Creek, MI (Age 79 years)   2. PUFFER, Edwin O.,   b. 21 May 1866, Bedford, MI d. 26 Jan 1872, Pennfield, MI (Age 5 years)   3. PUFFER, Francis E.,   b. 19 Aug 1869, Pennfield, MI d. 9 Feb 1872, Pennfield, MI (Age 2 years)
  Family ID	F5899	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

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• Notes

  He died when a large boulder he was burying fell upon him and crushed him. He removed early in life to N. Adams, MA, and thence to Steuben County, NY. At the age of 20 years he went to California in 1849, and again at the age of 23 by way of the Isthmus of Panama. In 1859 he made a trip to Pike's Peak, CO. He enlisted at Canedea, NY on 13 Sept, 1864, in Company B, 189th NY Infantry Regt. and was discharged May 31, 1865 at Washington, DC. He then moved to MI and lived four years in Bulford township, Calhoun Co., near the city of Battle Creek, afterward moving to a farm in Pennfield in the same county. He was a member of the Methodist Church. He was wounded during the Civil War.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 184, 282-283. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 183, 282. [S164] _1850 United States Federal Census. [S456] New York, Town Clerks' Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War, ca 1861-1865. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 282. [S1141] Sons of Volunteers of Civil War. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 183. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 283.