Martin Sayres

Title

Martin Sayres

Aliases

Martin Sears

Date

2 April 1866-7 August 1900

Description

Regiment: 5th Regiment U.S. Colored Cavalry
Company: C
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 26 August 1864 in Bardstown, Kentucky, United States
Mustered-out date and place: Killed in action

Other locations listed during time of service: Not listed
Comrades mentioned: Colonel J.S. Brislin, Moses Greathouse

Name(s) of spouse(s): Lona Greathouse
Wife’s aliases (variations in recorded name): Lona Sears; Lucy Cyrus; Lincy Cyrus; Loua Sears
Children: Not listed

Veteran's birth date and place: ~1839
Plantation(s): Sayers Depot in Nelson County, Kentucky, United States
Enslaver(s): Alexander Sayers

Parents of veterans: Not listed
Other listed family members: Not listed

Wife's date and place of birth: Not listed
Wife’s plantation: Samuels Depot in Nelson County, Kentucky, United States
Wife’s enslaver: Joseph F. Greathouse
Wife's parents: Not listed
Other listed family members: Emma Sears (daughter); Moses Greathouse (brother)

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Record Administration

Type

L. Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.