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Coffran, John A.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 21, credited to Wheelock, VT
Unit(s): 6th VT INF
Service: enl 9/21/61, m/i 10/15/61, Pvt, Co. E, 6th VT INF, d/dis 11/21/61, Regtl Hosp (diptheria)

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VITALS

Birth: abt 1840, Wheelock, VT
Death: 11/21/1861

Burial: Wheelock Village Cemetery, Wheelock, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, mother Nancy, 11/24/1876; father John, 12/5/1889, VT
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

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BURIAL:

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Wheelock Village Cemetery, Wheelock, VT

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Obituary

On Camp Griffin, Lewinsville, Va., of Typhoid Fever and Measles, John H. Coffran, of Co. I, 6th Vt. Regiment; aged 21 years and 8 months, a son of John and Nancy Coffran of Wheelock, this state.

Source: St. Johnsbury Caledonian, Dec. 20, 1861
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.