Miles, Jeremiah
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 19, credited to Middlesex, VT Unit(s): 26th USCI Service: enl, Brooklyn, NY, 1/19/64, Pvt, Co. G, 26th USCI, m/o 8/28/65, Hilton Head, SC See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: abt 1843, Norfolk, VA Death: 04/18/1913 Burial: Middlesex Center Cemetery, Middlesex, VT Marker/Plot: 23 Gravestone photographer: Monica White Findagrave Memorial #: 182699330 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 1/19/1886; widow Lucy A., 5/6/1913, 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 DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Obituary
SERVED IN COLORED REGIMENT
Jerry Miles of Middlesex, Veteran of Civil War, Dropped Dead.
Middlesex, April 18. - Jerry Miles, colored, and a veteran of the Civil war, died suddenly at his home in this village today. This forenoon at 9 o'clock he was sitting in a chair, apparently in his usual health, when he was seen to slip out and fall to the floor. After gasping a few Times, he died. He had been troubled with heart disease.
He was born in Virginia about 70 years ago and when the northern soldiers went into that state during the Civil war he followed them about and later began driving a mule team for them. Afterwards he enlisted in the 36th United States Colored Regiment. Following the war he joined the John Brown colony in New York state but he had lived many years in Middlesex. He was married 30 years ago and leaves his wife and three children, Frank, Hattie and Grace.
Source: Barre Times, April 18, 1913
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.