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Calihan, Michael

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 44, credited to Bristol, VT
Unit(s): 14th VT INF
Service: enl 9/8/62, m/i 10/21/62, Pvt, Co. G, 14th VT INF, wdd, Gettysburg, 7/3/63, m/o 7/30/63

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VITALS

Birth: 08/27/1816, Ireland
Death: 05/05/1898

Burial: Varney Cemetery, Bristol, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Alan Lathrop
Findagrave Memorial #: 41913006

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 10/15/1877
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

3rd Great Grandfather of James L. Weaver, Gaitherburg, MD

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Varney Cemetery, Bristol, VT

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Obituary

BRISTOL

Michael Calahan, who has been sick for some time, died at his home in the north part of the town on Friday. The funeral was held from the house on Sunday. He was an old soldier and a member of the G. A. R.

Source: Middlebury Register, May 13, 1898.

BRISTOL

The funeral of Michael Calahan was held Sunday afternoon from his late home, Rev. L A. Bigelow, the pastor of the Methodist church officiating. The interment was in the North cemetery by the side of his wife and children.

- A delegation of Grand Army men from here attended the funeral of Michael Calahan Sunday.

Source: Burlington Free Press, May 10, 1898.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.