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Curtis, John W.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 21, credited to Grafton, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT CAV
Service: enl 10/14/61, m/i 11/19/61, Blacksmith, Co. F, 1st VT CAV, reen 12/30/63, tr to Co. D, 6/21/65, m/o 8/9/65

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VITALS

Birth: 12/12/1840, Danbury, NH
Death: 01/01/1901

Burial: Pleasant View Cemetery, Ludlow, 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?: Not found
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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Pleasant View Cemetery, Ludlow, VT

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Obituary

John W. Curtice.

John W. Curtice, a well-known resident of Hinsdale, Mass., died in Washington, D. C. , Tuesday, aged 60 years. He had made Washington his winter home for a number of years. He had been a druggist in Hinsdale for about 25 years and sold out on account of his health in July, 1893. Mr. Curtice was town treasurer for ten years and fire district treasurer for six or eight years. He was also representative to the general court. Mr. Curtice was born in Bristol. N.H., December 12, 1840. Early in the war he enlisted, and served three years with the First Vermont cavalry.

Source: St. Albans Daily Messenger, January 4, 1901

BELLOWS FALLS
John W. Curtis, a Summer Resident, Dead at His Home in Washington.

John W. Curtis, who died of typhoid fever in Washington, D. C., Tuesday morning, aged 60, spent a large part of every summer in Bellows Falls at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Thwing. Mr. Thwing was an intimate companion in the First Vermont Cavalry in the civil war. He lived in Grafton but was a native of Bristol, N.H. The body was brought here for burial.

Source: Burlington Free Press, January 12, 1901
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.