The following sources were used to document this individual..

General Record

• Sweet, Homer DeLois, Averys of Groton (Press of the Rice-Taylor Printing Co, Syracuse,NY,1894)
• Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, Cleveland, 1912
• The Lake County Star, Newspaper, Lake County, Michigan. "Progress in Lake County", February 13, 1879

Military

• Civil War Service Records, Box: 559;Extraction: 1; Record: 3186, Ancestry.com.
• Civil War Soldiers, American, Historical Data Systems, comp.. American Civil War Soldiers [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Enlisted as a Private on 29 August 1864 Enlisted in Company C, 42nd Infantry Regiment Wisconsin on 29 August 1864. Mustered out on 20 June 1865 in Milwaukee, WI - Residence was Dekorra, Columbia County, Wisconsin.
• Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 , Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706-1417.

Residence

• 1840 Jefferson County, NY Federal Census, Ancestry.com. John Avery enumerated in Watertown, NY.
• 1860 Clinton County, Michigan Federal Census, Ancestry.com. Living with father John Avery.
• 1880 Lake County, Michigan Federal Census, Cherry Valley, Lake, Michigan; Roll: T9_589; Family History Film: 1254589; Page: 63.3000; E, 1880, Ancestry.com. John Avery and family enumerated in Bingham Twp.
• 1900 Lake County, MI Federal Census, Cherry Valley, Lake, Michigan; Roll: T623 724; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 11., Ancestry.com.
• 1910 Lake County, Michigan Federal Census, Cherry Valley, Lake, Michigan; Roll: T624_658; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 13; Image: 6, 1910, Ancestry.com. Son Adolphus on same enumeration page.

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