John Snyder Tyler

Son of a stone mason, in 1860 he was a 17 year old farm worker living with his parents and 5 siblings at Allegan, MI. He enlisted at Galesburg on 5 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, Seventh Michigan Infantry on 22 August.

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was discharged on 5 November 1862 to enlist in the Regular Army. He enlisted on 28 October 1862 in Harrisburg, PA as a Private in Company F, 15th United States Infantry. He was discharged on 22 August 1864 at Atlanta, GA, by then a Corporal, at the expiration of his term of enlistment.

In 1870 he was a mason back in Allegan, where his first child was born and in 1880 he was a brick mason living with his in-laws in Eastchester, Westchester County, NY. By 1900, still working as a mason, he lived in the Bronx, NY, and in 1910, then age 69, he was still doing odd jobs as a mason, back in Westchester County, NY.

His service basics from the State of Michigan1 and the Registers.2 His wounding at Antietam from a November 1862 letter home by Lieutenant Samuel C Hodgman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Miranda Tyler (possibly cousin, 1844-1924) in July 1869 and they had 2 sons and a daughter.

c. 1842; Utica, NY

10/06/1910; in NY; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Allegan, MI