Results for subject term "Charles A. Finnemore and Sarah Burgett moved to Hazel Avenue. He is recorded as living there in the early 1900s, prior to this and before and after his service in the 54th Regiment in the Civil War, he is recorded as living on Baker Street. Charles A. Finnemore (b. 1837) of Amherst, Massachusetts enlisted in the Union Army as a Private on March 10, 1863. He was twenty-seven years old, 5’ 6” tall, and married. He was wounded on February 20, 1864, in Olustee, Florida, when he was shot in his right leg. Although serious enough to merit an eventual ‘invalid’ listing on his pension application, Finnemore’s injury did not prevent him from finishing his three years of service with the Regiment. He mustered out with the rest of his regiment on August 20, 1865, and returned to his wife in Amherst.<br />
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Aside from his service outside the State, Finnemore lived in Amherst his entire life. He was born there to Augustus C. and Eunice Finnemore about 1837. He and Sarah L. Burgett married on August 28, 1862. She was 21 at the time of the marriage. Charles, a laborer, was 26. They were married seven months before enlisting, Charles and Sarah were not property owners before the War. Prior to his nuptials, Charles had lived in a house with twelve other boarders (Baker Street). <br />
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After Finnemore’s return, the couple occupied a house valued at $1000. In 1900, after thirty-seven years of marriage, the federal census listed Charles and Sarah as living with a boarder of their own, a widower named John Thompson. Because Sarah is never listed as holding any occupation outside of “keeping of the house,” it appears Charles bought and maintained this property with his own accrued wages some of them earned with the 54th Massachusetts Regiment."