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Ellis, James H.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 22, credited to Westminster, VT
Unit(s): 3rd VT INF
Service: enl 6/1/61, m/i 7/16/61, Pvt, Co. A, 3rd VT INF, m/o 7/27/64

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VITALS

Birth: 08/07/1839, Walpole, NH
Death: 01/22/1918

Burial: New Westminster Cemetery, Westminster, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Bob Edwards
Findagrave Memorial #: 136480442

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 6/22/1880
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

2nd Great Grandfather of Floyd J. Ellis, Newport, VT

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Tombstone

New Westminster Cemetery, Westminster, VT

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Obituary

Death of James Ellis.

James Ellis, who died Tuesday at his home in East Putney, was a veteran of the Civil war. The funeral was held Thursday at 10 o'clock. He leaves a son, Dr. De Wise Ellis of Walpole, N. H. , and grandchildren. A brother, John Ellis of East Putney, also a Civil war veteran, and a sister, Mrs. Jennie M. Wood, of West hill, who has kept house for him since Mrs. Ellis's death. The burial took place in the new cemetery in Westminster.

Source: Vermont Phoenix, Jan. 25, 1918
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.