Edward H Markey was born in the town of Duleek, Meath County, Ireland 25 Dec 1844 and came to Cambridge Lawrence Co, MA .at the age of four. His family then lived in Lawrence Co, MA. for eight years before coming to Black River Falls, Jackson Co, WI in 1855.

When the Civil War broke out Edward enlisted in Co I of the 14^th WI Infantry as a drummer boy on 5 Nov 1861 served his time and mustered out. He reenlisted in the Veterans Corp till he was mustered out Oct 9 1865.

Lani note/May 2006

I could find a Civil War record for Edward Markey in Co I of the 14^th WI INF but could find no info on his enlistment in the Veterans Corp. Apparently he was a drummer for Co I of the 14^th WI INF Perhaps the Veterans Corps was just a title as he is listed as mustering out on Oct 9,1865 as was Co I of the 14^th Infantry.

Edward Markey

Regiment Name   14^th WI INF

Side   UNION

Co   I

Soldier’s Rank In   Musician

Soldier’s Rank Out   PVT

14th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry

Organized at Fond du Lac, Wis., and mustered in January 30, 1862. Left State for St. Louis, Mo., March 8, thence moved to Savannah, Tenn., March 23-28. Served unattached Army of the Tennessee to May 1863. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, May, 1862. Provost guard at Pittsburg Landing and Hamburg Landing, Tenn. Unattached, Army of the Tennessee, to August 1862. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Miss., Army of the Tennessee, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, Left Wing, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December 1862. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January 1863. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to March 1864. 2nd Brigade, Provisional Divisional, 17th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to June 1864. (Veterans attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, April to November, 1864.) Detached Brigade, 17th Army Corps, and 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to August 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to December 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Detachment Army of the Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to February 1865. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps (New), Military Division of West Mississippi, to March 1865. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to August 1865. District of Alabama to October 1865.

SERVICE.-Battle of Shiloh , Tenn., April 6-7, 1862. Advance on and siege of Corinth , Miss., April 29-May 30. Provost duty at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., till July 23, and St. Hamburg till August 23. Moved to Corinth August 23. Battle of Iuka, Miss., September 19. Battle of Corinth , Miss., October 3-4. Pursuit of Ripley October 5-12. At Corinth till November 2. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. Operations on the Mississippi Central Railroad November 2 to December 23. Moved to Moscow and duty along Memphis & Charleston Railroad till January 10, 1863. Moved to Memphis January 10, thence to Young's Point, La., January 17 and to Lake Providence, La., February 8. Duty there till April. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Champion Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg , Miss., May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Expedition to Mechanicsville May 26-June 4. Moved to Natchez, Miss., July 12. Capture of Natchez July 13 and duty there till October 9. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., October 9 and duty there till March, 1864. Regiment veteranized December 11, 1863 and Veterans on furlough January 3 to March 6, 1864. (Company "E" and Veteran detachments from each Company joined 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, at Clifton, Tenn., thence march to Ackworth, Ga., via Huntsville and Decatur, Ala.. and Rome, Ga., April 29-June 8. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign June 8 to September 8. Operations   about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Howell's Ferry July 5. Leggett's or Bald Hill July 20-21. Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22 -August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31 -September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Pursuit of Hood into Alabama October 3-26. Rejoined Regiment at Nashville, Tenn., December, 1864, except Company "E," which went as a pontoon train guard to the sea November 15-December 10, and through the Carolinas to Washington, D. C., rejoining Regiment at Montgomery, Ala., July 16, 1865.) Non-veterans on Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2, 1864. Red River Campaign March 10-May 22, 1864. Fort De Russy March 14. Occupation of Alexandria March 16. Grand Ecore April 3. Pleasant Hill Landing April 12. About Cloutiersville April 22-24. About Alexandria April 26-May 13. Wells' Plantation May 6. Bayou Boeuf May 7. Retreat to Morganza May 13-20. Mansura May 16. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., May 20-24, thence to Memphis, Tenn., May 28-30, and duty there till June 22. Moved to Moscow and LaGrange June 22-27. Smith's Expedition to Tupelo, Miss., July 5-21. Camargo's Cross Roads, near Harrisburg, July 13. Harrisburg, near Tupelo , July 14-15. Moved to St. Charles, Ark., August 3-6, thence to Devall's Bluff September 1, and to Brownsville September 8. March through Arkansas and Missouri in pursuit of Price September 17-November 17. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 23-30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Moved to Eastport, Miss., and duty there till February 6, 1865. Moved to New Orleans, La., February 6-22. Campaign against Mobile and its Defences March 17-April 12. Fish River March 17. Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8. Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9. Occupation of Mobile April 12. March to Montgomery April 13-25 and duty there till August.

Moved to Mobile August 27 and duty there till October. Mustered out October 9, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 6 Officers and 116 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 194 Enlisted men by disease. Total 319.

Military Record Of Clark County, Wisconsin

 Compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Chicago and Winona, H. C. Cooper Jr.,& Co. in 1918, Pg. 721-726

When President Lincoln, in 1861, called upon the loyal North for volunteers to aid the government of the United States in suppressing the rebellion in the Southern States, the County of Clark responded nobly. It then had within its borders about 120 families and a population, all told, of approximately 800. There are no records attainable relative to any enlistments for three months’ service, if there were any, but the county furnished to one company of the 14th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry about thirty men. They were all enlisted and enrolled in Co I of that regiment for three years, and when they left the state to take the field the company was in command of Captain Calvin It. Johnson, of Black River Falls, an able lawyer and a good soldier.

The Fourteenth Regiment, it is said, was one of the best that Wisconsin put in the field. It left the state early in March, 1862, and in less than thirty days was engaged in the battle of Shiloh, where it lost nearly 100 men in killed, wounded and missing. In October of the same year the regiment lost ninety-five men killed, wounded and missing at the battle of Corinth.

The members of this regiment were with Grant at Vicksburg, in 1863, and in a charge before that city in May of that year they sustained the loss of 107 men. On the surrender of Vicksburg the regiment was given the post of honor and led the advance of the troops on their entry into the surrendered city. The members of the Fourteenth also saw service on the Red River expedition and a portion of it was with General Sherman in his Atlanta campaign. Early in 1865 they were sent to New Orleans, and shortly after were engaged with the enemy at Spanish Fort until its surrender, and were in various skirmishes along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. They were not mustered out until Oct. 9, 1865, about six months after the surrender of Lee to Grant at Appomattox Court House. General Sherman, in his memoirs, referring to regiments from Wisconsin, states that her regiments were kept filled with recruits, whereas other states generally filled their quota by new regiments, and the result was that he estimated a Wisconsin regiment equal to an ordinary brigade. The following is a list of the members of Company I, Fourteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, who resided in Clark County at the time of their enlistment:

Ayers, Charles Bacon, Charles F. Bone, Chauncey Blakeslee, Wilson S. Covill, My G. Chamberlain, Benjamin Darling, Charles W. Foote, James W. Ferguson, Benjamin Folsom, Alexander Green, Edward Houghton, Joseph Ives, John F. King, George R. King, Louis Lynch, Edward H. Markey, Andrew J. Manley, William Neverman, John O’Neill, Nelson Osgood, Henry Ross, Robert F. Sturdevant, John It. Sturdevant, Washington Short, Schlinsog, Cyrus 0. Sturgeon,  Thomas Vine, Ferdinand C. Wage and Thomas  Whitmore.

Of these men in 1909, Robert J. MacBride wrote:

Among those who died after returning from the war, Edward H. Markey died at Neillsville Sept. 15, 1894, and for some years was clerk of the Circuit Court. Mr. Markey, in the early days, drove stage and carried the mail twice a week from Black River Falls to Neillsville and Weston Rapids

After the Civil War Edward H Markey returned to Black River Falls.  Jackson Co, WI   and in 1867 he came to Neillsville, Clark Co, WI.

He kept a meat market, and later he went into the livery business in 1870, which in later years would   make him the owner of the oldest business in Neillsville.

He ran a stage line in 1875 and at one time he ran coaches from Neillsville to Humbird, Loyal, and Hatfield.

 In  1871 he married Miss Hattie Babcock, originally from Courtland Co, NY and daughter of Justice and Cassa Babcock. She came to WI with her parents about 1866.

Edward belonged to the A.O.U.W., was Clerk of the County, and Deputy Sheriff, besides holding some town offices

The Post-office was first opened in Neillsville during 1856, when it was established at the residence of Nathaniel Clapp, which then occupied the lot now covered by O'Neill's brick building. S.C. Boardman was first Postmaster, and Edward H.Markey the first mail carrier, going tri-weekly to Black River Falls--horseback in summer, and by "jumper" during the winter months.

Neillsville Post office was first established as Clark Post office, May 31, 1855, with Samuel C. Boardman as postmaster. The name Clark was changed to Neillsville Oct 6, 1856, and Mr. Boardman appointed a second year. Then followed George W. King in 1857; Chauncy Blakeslee in 1858; Wm. C. Tompkins, 1860; C.W. Carpenter, 1863; A. J. Manley, 1865; Wm. C. Hutchinson, 1867; J. W. Ferguson, 1871; Wm. Campbell, 1882; Isaac Carr 1886; Fred Reitz, 1890; William Huntley, 1894; L. B. Ring, 1899; A. E. Dudley, 1906. He was followed by William Huntley, the present postmaster. When this office was first established, 1855, mail was brought here from Black River Falls by Ed Markey.

Clark County News, October 1876

Clark County Press, Neillsville

October 3, 2001, Page 23

If you want a full-blooded, short-nosed, crooked-tailed bulldog, call Ed Markey. He has more than one, take your pick.

Edward H Markey died at his home in Neillsville, Clark Co, WI 15 Dec1894 at the age of 50 years old. and he was buried at Neillsville Cemetery Pine Valley Township, Clark Co, WI under the auspices of the GAR Post of which he was a charter member.

Funeral   Services were conducted by Rev G. N. Foster.

There is also a marker at this cemetery for his wife, Hattie A (Babcock). This is only a marker as she married   Alexander H Holverson sometime in 1898 and is buried with him at the Neillsville City Cemetery.

NEILLSVILLE, CLARK CO WI --WARD 3 1895 STATE CENSUS

Page 6   W. K. Laue, Rosiana Ley, M. Monroe, Jno. Mertis, Henry Marth, Geo Mead, Jno Merrill, L. H. Marsh, W. J. Marsh, A B Marsh, Tho Morgan, Peter Mertis, Peter Marx, I. M. Minon, Jos. Morley, L. G. Mastus, Geo Michael, Bertha Mandt, Hattie Markey, J. D. McMillan, Donald McMillan, Jno McQuade, Jos McMahon, Jessie McConnell, Henry Neierman, Julius Neierman, Fritz Neierman

Hattie (Babcock) Markey Holverson died 10 Oct 1915 at her home after an illness of several months. Her obituary says she was first married to E. H. Markey who died twenty years before and that she had married Alexander H. Holverson four years after Edward Markey’s death. Her obituary also said her nearest relative was Charles Babcock, a nephew. Her obit also said she was a most excellent woman and greatly loved by all who knew her best. She was a member of the Women’s Relief Corp (WRC) and the Royal Neighbors.

The funeral was held at her home with Rev LB Colman preaching the funeral sermon with the Royal Neighbors, WRC and GAR attending as a body and the WRC services also being used.

Those attending from a distance were Mr. & Mrs. John A Silnick of Chicago; Mrs. C.E. Reichenbeck of Merrillan; Mrs. Jeff Peaslee and Miss Jennie Reichenbeck of Black River Falls; Mrs. W. H. Woodworth of Eau Claire; and Mrs. George Ringrose of Alma Center.

Lani note/May 2006 I have seen no mention of children in either Edward or Hattie’s

Obituaries so I do not think they had children.

Her second husband, Alexander Holverson ,was one of the oldest residents of Neillsville, Clark Co, WI. He was born at Christiana, Norway in 1851. He worked in the lumber camps and had a ready ability to do any kind of work. His obit said worked in a clothing store, drove stage, kept a livery stable and developed into a leading Auctioneer in Clark Co. (perhaps working driving stage and keeping a livery stable was how he knew Edward and Hattie Markey) He spoke fluent English. Norwegian. and German and had a speaking knowledge of several other languages. He served one term as under sheriff, when JW Page was sheriff. He was married three times. . His first marriage was to Mary A Miller whom he married 27 Sept 1870 in Hartford, WI. She died July 16,1890 after a lingering illness. Children Carrie and Edward survived her.

His next marriage was to Hattie (Babcock) Markey whom he married in the late 1890’s.

She died 10 Oct 1915.

Alexander H Halverson’s last marriage was to Eva (Strong) b in Medina Co, Ohio 11 Aug 1856. The marriage to Alexander was her second marriage as she had first been married   to Legare Potter in 1879,who died in 1908. She married Alexander H Holverson Aug 15 1919 at Waukegan, Illinois. Alexander died at his home on 31 Aug 1923 after a brief illness Both the dr and the coroner agreed death was probably due to heart failure.

Rev. Longnecker officiated at the funeral and his wife Eva and his children Edwin of   Neillsville, and. Carrie (Mrs. WH Woodworth of Eau ClaireWI from his first marriage and five grandchildren were all in attendance at the funeral.

Eva (Strong) Potter Holverson   was a member of the Neillsville Colony No 132 BRFF and an early member of the Women’s Relief Corp ( WRC) at Colby.

 She died Nov 14,1928 at 72 years,.2 months and 2 days old at the time of her death.

Alexander Holverson and all three of his wives are buried at Neillsville City Cemetery, Pine Valley Township, Clark Co WI.