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Burton, Anthony

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 20, credited to Benson, VT
Unit(s): 11th VT INF
Service: enl 8/5/62, m/i 9/1/62, Pvt, Co. C, 11th VT INF, wdd, Petersburg, 4/2/65, m/o 6/24/65

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VITALS

Birth: 1842, Whitehall, NY
Death: 03/12/1905

Burial: Baird Cemetery, Chittenden, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Kathy Valloch
Findagrave Memorial #: 54251351

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 5/6/1889, VT; minor, 1/3/1906, VT, not approved
Portrait?: VHS Collections
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)

Remarks: None

Webmaster's Note: The 11th Vermont Infantry was also known as the 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery; the names were used interchangably for most of its career


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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Tombstone

Baird Cemetery, Chittenden, VT

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Photo

VHS - Reunion Society Collection

Obituary

EAST WALLINGFORD

Anthony Burton died Sunday night at the home of his son, E. A. Burton. He was a veteran of the civil war, and is survived by a large family of grown up children. His wife died some years ago. The body will be taken to Rutland for burial Wednesday morning.

Source: Rutland Daily Herald, March 15, 1905.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.