2nd g-grandfather of Sally Redinger

Pvt   Co. H, 3rd New York Light Artillery

Dates of Service:  05 Sep 1864 - 30 Jun 1865 

HARLOW SHERWOOD, CIVIL WAR VETERAN, FOUND

by Angela Stair, Tri-City Record, July 3, 2002

Sally Redinger, Harlow Sherwood's great-great-granddaughter, has been looking for his grave for a long time now. Last year, Joe Cheshire wrote an article titled "Where is Harlow Sherwood?" and it generated a call from a woman that knew of another cemetery in Hartford Township that might hold him.

Cemetery sexton Gerrie Heskett checked it out but, alas, there was no Harlow Sherwood gravesite. Through extensive research, it was finally located in Pioneer Cemetery in Hartford and was given a beautiful headstone to mark the grave.

Friday, June 7, 2002, marked the end of a long search for Sherwood, a Civil War veteran. Redinger, a member of Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, has been searching a long time for her great-great-grandfather.

"I could not have accomplished this without the help of Gerrie (Heskett) and Bill (Costello). They have been a tremendous help," Redinger said. "Harlow died in the old soldiers' home in Grand Rapids.

At first look, the records showed that he was buried in Grand Rapids but that proved not be so."

"Next, we were led to Gobles where we located his first wife and son in the Robinson Cemetery," Redinger explained. "The Pioneer Cemetery here in Hartford had been mentioned, but we could not find any data to substantiate it."

"This is where Gerrie was so helpful. She looked and looked until she found an old book that had been thought to be missing and located Harlow buried next to his second wife."

Steve Redinger and Bill Costello, both members of Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, put the finishing touches on the setting of a beautiful white headstone for Harlow.

"There," Sally Redinger says as she pats the stone. "It's been a long time coming, but here it finally is."

There will be a special ceremony conducted by "Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War" near the end of July.

GRAVESITE: Pioneer Cemetery, Hartford, MI

Written by Sally Redinger, June 2004