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Headle, Mortimer K.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 21, credited to Ludlow, VT
Unit(s): 4th VT INF
Service: enl 8/26/61, m/i 9/21/61, Pvt, Co. C, 4th VT INF, reen 12/15/63, pr CPL 6/21/65, m/o 7/13/65

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VITALS

Birth: 08/19/1840, Weathersfield, VT
Death: 05/12/1913

Burial: Maple Grove Cemetery, Wallingford, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Jennifer Snoots
Findagrave Memorial #: 96285026

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: yes, 3/29/182, VT
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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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Maple Grove Cemetery, Wallingford, VT

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Obituary

EAST WALLINGFORD

Motamer R. Headle, an old resident of this place died at his home here Tuesday morning. He was a Civil war veteran and was a member of the 13th Vermont regiment during the war. He was 72 years old. For several years and until recently he conducted a large newspaper trade on the streets. He is survived by two sons, Evan Headle, who is employed as a Western Union Telegraph operator in Boston and Earnest Headle of Ludlow and a half-brother, WiliamHeadle of Cavendish. He was a member of Mount Moriah lodge of Masons of this village and the lodge had charge of the burial service Wednesday afternoon. The funeral was held from the Baptist church. Rev. F.W. Buck officiated at the church and grave. Mrs. Frank . Bolster and William H. White sang "Lead Kindly Light" and "Nearer My God To Thee." The bearers were Frank O. Bolster, Charles R. Cole, Edward J. Chilson and Daniel G. Allard, all of this place. Mr. Headle was born in Shrewsbury in 1841 and had lived here practically all his life until his wife died when he moved to Ira. He lately returned here. Among those from out of town who attended the services were Pastmaster George M. Haskell of Center lodge, Rutland. Dr. H.R. Martyn of Cuttingsville, Mr. and Mrs. William Headle of Cavendish, Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Headle of Ludlow, William H. White of Belmont, Mrs. Sarah Aldrich, Elwin A. Burditt and Edgar H Aldrich, all of Rutland and Mr. and Mrs. Evan Headle of Boston.

Source: Rutland Daily Herald, May 15, 1913
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.