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Bushway, Julius C.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 20, credited to Milton, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT CAV
Service: enl 11/7/61, m/i 11/19/61, Pvt, Co. A, 1st VT CAV, reen 12/31/63, pow, Middletown, 5/24/62 (Lynchburg), prld 9/13/62, wdd, Winchester, 9/19/64 (wrist, hand and hip), tr to Co. B 6/21/65, m/o 8/9/65

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VITALS

Birth: abt 1842, Napierville, Canada East
Death: 06/30/1897

Burial: Burns Cemetery, Pomfret, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Joie Finley Morris +
Findagrave Memorial #: 36046623

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 11/22/1871; widow Maria B., 8/13/1931, VT, not approved
Portrait?: Unknown
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

DESCENDANTS

2nd Great Grandfather of Karla Bushway, South Strafford, VT

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Burns Cemetery, Pomfret, VT

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Obituary

Julius Bushway was frightfully injured at West Hartford Monday night of last week and his death followed on Wednesday. He was returning from the Plattsburgh excursion and when leaving the train from which point he was to drive home, he fell part way beneath the cars, the wheels cutting of his left leg below the knee. Hie right leg was also fractured. He was taken to the hotel and his injuries dressed, but he failed rapidly. He leaves one daughter and several sons.

Source: Vermont Phoenix, July 9, 1897
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.