Site Logo
Home | Battles | Cemeteries | Descendants | Find A Soldier | Towns | Units | Site Map

Edson, Myron Winslow

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 28, credited to Brookfield, VT
Unit(s): 12th VT INF
Service: enl 8/21/62, m/i 10/4/62, Pvt, Co. F, 12th VT INF, m/o 7/14/63

See Legend for expansion of abbreviations

VITALS

Birth: 03/26/1834, Brookfield, VT
Death: 09/11/1910

Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Bethel, VT
Marker/Plot: 69
Gravestone photographer: Joe Schenkman
Findagrave Memorial #: 79886734

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 7/23/1888, VT; widow Alma, 10/1910, VT
Portrait?: Gibson Collection
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: See Benedict's Army Life in Virginia

DESCENDANTS

(Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today)

BURIAL:

Copyright notice

Tombstone

Gilead Cemetery, Bethel, VT

Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.



Photo

John Gibson Collection

Obituary

Myron W. Edson died Sept. 11 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Call in Bethel Gilead. He was born in Bakersfield, Vt., March 26, 1834, the son of Salmon and Mary (White) Edson. Funeral services were held Sept. 13 and the interment was in the Gilead cemetery.

Source: Bethel Courier, September 15, 1910
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.