1849 New Castle, IN. In preparation for marriage, Pyrrhus built anew h ouse in town but they lived there only 4 years before selling itto his b rother-in-law, Samuel Hazzard.
1854 He quit the carpenter trade and moved to the portion of hisfathe r's farm which had been set aside for him and became a farmer.Today th at farm is nearly all located within the city limits of NewCastle.
Pyrrhus and Mary lived on the farm until the Civil War when heenlisted a s Capt of Co C 36th IN Inf. He was forced to resign due todisability f rom wounds he received at Chickamauga, GA. One historysays he "was a n atural born soldier, and came honestly by the warspirit which sent him i nto the Mexican War and later into the greatconflict. The martial ins tincts of the sire had descended to theson, and when the nation leaped t o arms, he was among the first toanswer the call for volunteers."
6/18/1880 New Castle, Henry Co, IN. At census time Pyrrhus was 57yea rs old, a farmer, with wife Mary E, 54, son George, 21, niece,Kate, 22 , and Mary's 79 year old widowed mother, Isabell Elliott.
