ID	First	Middle	Last	DOB	DOD	COD
82	Myron	C.	Furlong	6/17/1846	6/26/1864	Consumption

veteran	exhumed	purchaser	cemetery
TRUE	FALSE	N/A	Adams Street

lot	plot
N/A	R15 G3 military marker footstone and G4 family headstone, inscription faces west. On south half of lot 40. Also displaced footstone "M. C. F." at R17 G4.

relations

Rev. Myron C. Furlong (father) M.D. Furlong (mother)

military branch	date served	war
Army	7/30/1861-1/26/1864	Civil War

rank	medals	unit
Private	N/A	Company A., 30th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps

military comments

TBE:"invalided in war and died shortly after" He died of disease on 1/26/1864 at Madison, IN. 18 yrs old at enlistment.

military sources

Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery 1904, Berea Historical Society "Heres a List of Soldiars Dead", May 30, 1930, Berea Historical Society "City Cemetery" small ledger copy, Berea Historical Society "The Berea Enerprise" 6/24/1932 p.1 c.1-2, p.6 c.5-6 "Cuyahoge Cemetery Inscriptions V.I" WRHS Compiled 1934 Civil War Research Database, citing Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State ofOhio,online www.civilwardata.com Cuyahoga County Recorders Office, Veterans Services, online

comments

The Inscriptions for the Old Village Cemetery state, "Furlong, Myron C., Jr., son of Rev. M.C. and M.D. Furlong, d June 26, 1864, ae 18 yrs. 9 da., Co. A., 30 Regt. O. Vol. Inf., 2nd Brigade, 2nd Div 15 Army Corps." Myron's family was enumerated in the 1860 census in Mt Vernon, OH. Father M. C. was 44, born in CT, and gave his occupation as "manager foundry." Mother Minerva was 40, siblings were William B (20, machinist), Julia (17, student), S.N. (11, male), N.J. (5, male), Serin (3, male). Also a domestic servant, Annie (30). Mother and sibs born in Ohio, he, Julia, and S.N. all attending school. Myron enlisted in the Union Army at age 15, 6 mo, on 30 July 1861. He was mustered into Co. A, 30th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on 14 Aug 1861; 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps. He was wounded in combat and died of consumption on 26 Jan 1864 at Madison, IN, at the age of 18 (Don Labaj, Adams Street Cemetery DVD, 2006; Berea Enterprise, 4 June 1898). He was only 18 years old. "M.C. Furlong, 30th O.V.I. Response by Mr. Wilcox:- 'Among the throng of nobel soldiers, none is more worthy of rememberance than young Furlong. While in the army, he contacted the disease which caused his death. We cherish his memory by stewing flowers on his grave.'"

sources

Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery 1904, Berea Historical Society "Heres a List of Soldiars Dead", May 30, 1930, Berea Historical Society "List of Burials and Names 1856-1871", City of Berea Records "Cuyahoge Cemetery Inscriptions V.I" WRHS Compiled 1934 Berea Advertiser, 5 June 1879 Berea Enterprise, 4 June 1898 Berea Enterprise, 16 June 1905 Don Labaj, Adams Street Cemetery DVD, 2006. The Berea Advertisement, M.C. Furlong, June 1874.