The Sterling genealogy

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THE STERLING GENEALOGY
oath of renewed allegiance to most of its citizens and maintained
such a degree of order that the leading citizens petitioned the
department to have him retained there. He was transferred to
Macon in Oct. and afterward to Americus, Sumter Co., Ga.,
where he had charge of the Andersonville ground and the cemetery
of 13,000 graves.
At Macon he was judge advocate during the winter of 1865-
66 and conducted a military commission there, before which was
held many prominent trials. After having been mentioned for
promotion a number of times during his years of service Captain
Badger was promoted to be lieutenant colonel of his regiment in
Nov., 1865, " for long, faithful and meritorious services of a high
character." He was mustered out with his regiment, the very last
of the New York regiments to return from the field, in Nov.,
1865. He contributed many news articles to the New York papers,
chiefly to the Tribune, during his service as captain. After his
return to New York, he reopened his law office at 178 Broadway
and continued in practice until his death. He was stricken with
heart disease at the corner of Eighty-fifth Street and the Boule-
vard and d. in a few minutes, Dec. 14, 1898, without issue. At his
expressed desire Colonel Badger's body was cremated and his ashes
interred in Kensico cemetery, New Jersey.
1346 WILLIAM WHITTLESEY FROST (Almira, Samuel,
Samuel, Joseph, Daniel, William), b. in Bloomfield, N. Y., Dec. 16,
1825 ; m. Nov. 20, 1883, Effie Belle Clayton, b. Apr. 26, 1863.
He was a wealthy farmer, living in 1906 at Verdi, Kan., having been
for several years totally blind.
Child:
2808 Mary Esther Frost, b. Sept. 30, 1884.
1351 MARY A. FROST (sister of the above), b. at Pierpont,
Ohio, Feb. 14, 1839; m. May 1, 1856, Adrastus Newell, b. in
Jefferson Co., N. Y., Dec. 25, 1831, son of Origin and Sarah
(Baker) Newell of Houndsfield, Jefferson Co. Mr. Newell was
commissary sergeant of Co. A, 1st Wis. Cav. during the last
year of the Rebellion. He was a farmer at Glasco, Cloud Co.,
Kan.