3rd great granduncle of Nancy Starr

Private    Co. G     14th OH Infantry

Dates of Service:  22 Apr 1861 - 13 Aug 1861

Private    Co. G     54th OH Infantry

Dates of Service:  29 Feb 1864 - 26 Aug 1865

Freeman Horis Dart was born May 17, 1838 in Chautauqua Co., New York. One of seven children of James Dart and Anna Covell. At the age of 22 he was living in Berrien Co. Michigan employed as a well digger. 

On Christmas day of 1862, Freeman married Sarah Elizabeth Porter in Putnam Co., Ohio. 

He entered the Civil War out of Lima, Ohio February 29, 1864 and was listed as present for the skirmishes at Larkinsville and Huntsville, Alabama. Evidently, he contracted a lung disease that kept him hospitalized much of the time.

After the Civil War, he and Sarah moved to Vegennes Twp. in Kent County, Michigan. By the 1880 census he and his family lived in Berrien Co., Michigan. His occupation was listed as a sawyer (carpenter). 

Freeman died August 6, 1896 in Cedar Springs, Michigan of complications from the lung disease he acquired during the Civil War. He is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Cedar Springs, Michigan.

GRAVESITE: Elmwood Cemetery, Cedar Springs, Kent Co., MI

Written by Mary Dart, June 2004