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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 21, credited to Chelsea, VT
Unit(s): 2nd VT INF
Service: enl 5/1/61, m/i 6/20/61, CPL, Co. E, 2nd VT INF, reen 1/31/64, pr SGT, wdd, 5/3/63, 5/5/64, and 10/19/64, m/o 6/18/65
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VITALS
Birth: 09/26/1839, Chelsea, VT
Death: 04/08/1894
Burial: Highland Cemetery, Chelsea, VT
Marker/Plot: 326
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Kathy Valloch
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 9/11/1865; widow Philena, 4/18/1894, VT
Portrait?: Jones 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: None
DESCENDANTS
Great Grandfather of Bert D. Ramage, -
Great Grandfather of John A. Davis, Redlands, CA
Great Grandfather of Bert D. Ramage, Ludlow, MA
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BURIAL:
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Highland Cemetery, Chelsea, VT
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Obituary
Martin V. B. Davis, a soldier in the civil war, died Sunday morning, aged 60 years, after a painful illness of several months. Beside a wife, a son and married daughter survive him.
Source: Burlington Free Press, April 11, 1894.
Martin V. B. Davis died last week Sunday. He had been ill for a long time with heart trouble. He was a member of Company E, 2d Vermont regiment, and served three years in the war. There were 12 of his old comrades at his funeral.
Source: Argus and Patriot, April 18, 1894.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.