Willett⁸ Carman (Samuel⁷, Benjamin⁶, Samuel⁵, Benjamin⁴, Caleb³, John², John¹) was born 1823 in the Town of Hempstead, Queens County.  He served with Company A, 78th New York Infantry during the Civil War. Willet died Louden Heights, Virginia after a long bout with Typhoid Fever.  His unit was in pursuit of General Stonewall Jackson through the Shenandoah Valley (this was right before the Battle of Antietam, when the Armies were maneuvering to find each another) when he came down sick and was left at Winchester, Virginia on 5 June 1862 and succumb on October 12, 1862 officially of "diarrhea". Willet was moved from his first burial site and his final burial is at Winchester National Cemetery, Virginia. ('Roll of Honor' of Union Dead prepared by the Quartermaster General of the United States, 1865)

Willett married 27 November 1844 at Christ First Church, Hempstead, to Anna Maria Smith, born 9 July 1828 at Mineola, Queens County, New York. The widow Ann (Smith) Carman later remarried to a Mr. Bolce, and for reason probably to due with her widow's pension, continued to name two more children, born after her first husband's death, as Carmans.

Civil War widow's pension papers of Willett Carman made out to Ann M. Carman

Children of Willett and Anna (Smith) Carman:

probably fathered by a second husband to Anna:

My deepest appreciation to 'Wink' & Joan Carman, Wendy & Jack Carman, Connie Bono, Diane Fudge and Sherry Lawrence, without whom a lot of this information would still be scattered pieces of the puzzle.

07/22/2007