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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 33, credited to Rockingham, VT
Unit(s): 4th VT INF, 1st USSS
Service: enl 12/9/63, m/i 12/9/63, PVT, Co. F, 1st USSS, tr to 2nd USSS, Co. E, 12/23/64, tr to 4th VT INF, Co. G, 2/25/65, m/o 5/13/65
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VITALS
Birth: abt 1830, Unknown
Death: 09/1900
Burial: Lake Memphremagog Cemetery, Newport, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 6/30/1880
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
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BURIAL:
Copyright notice
Drowned in Lake Memphremagog, Newport, VT
Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.
Obituary
John Holtham, the oldest fisherman in the region of Lake Memphremagog, was drowned near Province island last Saturday. His body has not been recovered. Mr. Holtham led a secluded life in a hut at Owl's Head.
Montpelier Evening Argus, Montpelier, VT, September 24, 1900
Submitted by Heidi McColgan