Gaylord Brown was born 7-27-1843 in Cohocton, Steuben Co, NY. On his Civil War enlistment papers he was described as 5’10” tall with a light complexion, gray eyes and auburn hair. At the time, he was a farmer and apparently never learned to write or even sign his name. Gaylord enlisted at Corning , NY into Company F of the 35th NY infantry on 5-24-1861 , but he was discharged for disability on 9-20-1861 at Arlington Heights , VA. His discharge papers stated he had been unfit for duty for 40 days due to “acute rheumatism and inflammation of the spinal column; he cannot walk or stand erect… caused by bathing when warm. …Has been subject to rheumatism several years.” Gaylord recuperated in New York for while. In the winter of 1862/1863, Gaylord left New York for Cass Co, Michigan . Between 1863 and 1870, Gaylord married Salinda J. (born about 1848). In 1870, they and their infant son, Elmer, were living in Volinia a few houses away from his brother, Abner. He had no farm of his own (he probably worked on his brother’s farm), but possessed a $300 personal estate. At some point, Gaylord and Salinda may have divorced. There is a Sylenda J. Broen (1848-1921) buried in Charleston cemetery in Volinia (I’m not sure if this was Gaylord’s wife). Gaylord seems to have married again sometime before 1893, possibly to Lydia E. Whitcomb. In 1893, Gaylord wrote to the pension board to tell them that his older brother, Fernando, had applied for his Civil War pension under false pretenses. A pension officer looked into the case and wrote to the commissioner of pensions: “Gaylord Brown bears a good reputation for truth. He reported the facts as known to him out of revenge, but I have no reason to discredit his statements…There is no doubt that the pensioner Fernando C. Brown is now living with the wife or late wife [sic] of his brother, Gaylord Brown." Based on the time line indicated by Fernando’s pension application, I believe Lydia had been Gaylord's wife. In 1890, Gaylord was living in Newburg, Cass Co, MI, according to the veteran’s census. On 11-23-1893 , he re-applied for rheumatism, piles, heart disease and disease of the eye. He claimed a loss of sight in his right eye due to “a horse switching his tail in applicant’s eye.” The pension board may or may not have decided on this claim by the time Gaylord died on 8-11-1894 . He was buried in Rosehill cemetery in Volinia near his parents.