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Edson, Henry L.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 22, credited to Brookfield, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT CAV
Service: enl 9/23/61, m/i 11/19/61, Pvt, Co. C, 1st VT CAV, pow 9/22/63, prld 9/29/63, m/o 11/18/64

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VITALS

Birth: 07/20/1840, Brookfield, VT
Death: 05/17/1914

Burial: New Cemetery, Brookfield, VT
Marker/Plot: Section 3 Lot 6
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Courtesy of Melanie Larocque
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 6/16/1873; widow Lucy J, 6/3/1914, NH
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: farmer

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BURIAL:

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New Cemetery, Brookfield, VT

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Obituary

DEATH OF HENRY EDSON ENDED MONTHS OF INTENSE SUFFERING.

Henry L. Edson died Sunday morning after being a great sufferer for several months, and confined to his bed two weeks. The funeral was held from the late home Tuesday afternoon, Rev. William Taylor officiating. Interment was in the family lot in Center Cemetery, beside his daughter, who died several years ago.

He leaves his wife, one daughter, and two sisters, Mrs. Ellen Paine, of Greely, Col., and Mrs. Lucy Carnes, of West Haven, Mich.

Source: Barre Daily Times, May 20. 1914
Courtesy of Deanna French