The Cressy Family

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Mary I.⁷ Cressey Fuller (Dr. Alonzo⁶, Hezekiah⁵, Joseph⁴, Daniel³, John², Mighill¹)
Born Lima, New York, 1841
Married 1862 in Michigan, Captain Jesse B. Fuller, son of Judge Fuller of Vermont. In 1861 he raised a Battery of 6 guns and 136 men enlisted for 3 years. Later it was Battery D, 1st Michigan Regiment, Light Artillery. He served on General Alger's staff and under General Thomas; was at Pittsburg Landing, Stone River, Chickamauga, where his battery lost 5 guns. In Fort Nagley, Chattanooga, he was in battles at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. He was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel and mustered out in 1865; a prominent Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) man.
His wife died in September 1867, in 25^th year.
In 1873 Cpt. Fuller married Carrie A. Cressey, Mary's sister.

Mary Cressey Fuller, born in August 1867, married in 1891 Dr. Elmer E. Stone of California.