Norman McMarcley
Surnames: Casler, McFarland, McLean, Reeves
Regions: Rome, Oneida Co., NY; Schenectady Co., NY; Seward
and Sharon,
Schoharie Co., NY; Eagle, WI; Palmyra, Jefferson Co.,
WI
Military: Company A, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery
Source: Soldiers' and Citizens' Album of Biographical
Record
Containing Personal Sketches of Army Men and Citizens
Prominent
in Loyality to the Union. Also a Chronological and Statistical
History of the Civil War and A History of the Grand Army
of the Republic
With Portraits of Soldiers and Prominent Citizens.
Chicago, Illinois, Grand Army Publishing Company,
1890
Copyrighted by H.O. Brown and M. A. W. Brown, 1888; Page
186/187
Norman McMarcley, Eagle, Wis., was born in Sharon, (now Seward), Schoharie Co., New York, May 2, 1819. His parents were named Frederick and Isabel (McFarland) McMarcley, and the former was the son of a soldier of the Revolution--Michael McMarcley. His brother, Martin McMarcley, was a soldier in the war of 1812. Norman McFarland, his maternal grandfather, was a Scottish Highlander, who married Margaret McLean, and made one of the voyages to this country which were common in its early days, consuming 14 weeks.
Isabel (McFarland) McMarcley was born in Schenectady Co., New York, and became the mother of 10 children. Both parents died in the Empire state. Mr. McMarcley was their second child and he left his native State in 1844, going to Mineral Point, Wisconsin, where he worked as a carpenter and joiner about seven months. He returned to his former home in New York, remained five years and in 1849 fixed his residence at Eagle.
Aug 2, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, known before the close of the war as one of the best equipped and best drilled batteries in the service. He was mustered into service in Palmyra, Jefferson Co., Wis. and went to Fort Cass, Va., remaining there six months; subsequently went to Fort Ellsworth, remaining a half year, and after some time at Forth Worth went to Alexandria where the battery continued until the close of the war. In November, 1864, Mr. McMarcley was mustered out for disability and returned to Wisconsin. He had been subjected to the hardest kind of labor in light and heavy artillery drill and infantry practice, besides working as a carpenter on the fortifications.
He was married June 30, 1852, to Lucinda Reeves of Eagle, who was born in Rome, Oneida Co., New York, Dec. 25, 1832, and is the daughter of William and Mary (Casler) Reeves. She is of mixed Holland Dutch and English extraction, her father having been of the former and her mother of the latter nationality. Her only daughter, Alzina, was born Jan. 2, 1854.
(surname variations: Cassler)