Company A, 21st Ohio
The Passing of Edna Hetrick
Edna Hetrick: A treasured candle has been extinguished.
From Findlay's The Courier on 14 July 2010:
Daughter of Civil War veteran dies
Edna Marie Hetrick, the daughter of a Civil War veteran, died Monday afternoon at the age of 103 at the Grand Court senior living facility in Findlay.
Hetrick was born near Rawson on Dec. 2, 1906, to David and Chloe (Helsel) Huffman. David Huffman served with Company F, 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Union Army during the Civil War. He fought in battles in Tennessee and Georgia and was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga.
Hetrick was a child of his second marriage, born when her father was 62, which was 41 years after the Civil War ended. Huffman had four children, a boy and three girls, with his first wife. After she died, Huffman married Edna Hetrick's mother, Chloe Helsel, and had eight more children, including six sons and two daughters.
"I'm the tail end," Hetrick said in a 2004 interview with The Courier.
The family lived on a 44-acre farm near Rawson where they had a garden and fruit trees and kept animals. David Huffman died at the age of 78. Hetrick was a teenager at the time, but told The Courier she didn't remember him telling many stories about his Civil War service.
"I was 15 when he died, so I didn't really care for those talks around the big fire in the kitchen with my brothers. Of course they were all ears. But at my age, I wasn't really interested," she said in 2004.
"I think I've lived this long so I'd learn to appreciate my father," Hetrick added. "I don't think I appreciated him when I was 15."
Hetrick's daughter, Jane Minard of Findlay, said her mother attended a reunion for descendants of the men who fought with the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry held last summer in Findlay. She said her mother lived on her own until moving to Grand Court last year.
Hetrick was a member of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War. The organization's website lists 16 other living daughters of Civil War veterans.
Editor's Note: Ms. Hetrick's obituary can be found here: Coldren Crates Funeral Home
David Huffman's information provided by Brad Quinlin:
Ms. Hetrick's father, David Huffman, enlisted in Company F on September 8 1861. He was detailed for extra duty driving hogs for the Quartermaster in September 1861 for 13 days. Huffman was wounded in the right forearm on September 20, 1863, at the Battle of Chickamauga (GA). He was hospitalized in Nashville (TN) until January 1864. He returned to the regiment and was mustered out July 25, 1865 at Louisville (KY) by order of the War Department at the conclusion of the war.
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