Fuller, Samuel A.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 23, credited to Cavendish, VT Unit(s): 16th VT INF Service: enl 8/29/62, m/i 10/23/62, 4SGT, Co. C, 16th VT INF, dis/dsb 4/13/63 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 09/30/1838, Hebron, NY Death: 04/14/1911 Burial: Rock Falls Cemetery, Harbor Beach, MI Marker/Plot: Section 18 Gravestone photographer: Elaine & Russell Snow Findagrave Memorial #: 89167124 Cenotaph: Cavendish Village Cemetery, Cavendish, VT Marker/Plot: 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, 7/27/63; widow Hettie, 4/27/1911, MI 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: While the 'cenotaph' has the correct name and unit, this is not the veteran. Linda Welch, Windsor County historian, confirms no Samuel Fuller died in Cavendish in 1878. DESCENDANTS 3rd Great Grandfather of Russell H. Snow, Waterbury, VT (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice   Rock Falls Cemetery, Harbor Beach, MI Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. CENOTAPH:   Cenotaph at Cavendish Village Cemetery, Cavendish, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may have cenotaphs there. |
Obituary
Last Call
Our citizens were shocked last Friday morning to learn that Samuel A. Fuller had passed away, after a brief illness at his home in this city, at an early hour that morning.
Samuel Ayers Fuller was born in Hebron, N.Y., Sept. 30, 1839.
Enlisted in U. S. Army Aug. 29, 1862 as Sergeant of Company C, 16th Reg't Vermont Volunteers, under Captain Asa G. Foster. Was discharged at Union Mills, Va., April 14, 1863 by reason of Surgeons Certificate of Disability. Five brothers besides himself enlisted at this time, one being killed on the battlefield.
He came to the shores of Michigan in 1875, settling in Post Hope, Michigan. Later he settled in Sand Beach, now Harbor Beach, was elected Justice of the Peace in the spring of 1887, also one of this cities first councilmen and had served in the capacity of Clerk and Treasurer.
He was married in 1877 to Martha Trescott of Lexington, Michigan, who died in 1886. Later he married Mrs. Hettie Fisher, one child being born of this union.
Deceased is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. W. J. Engle and George A. Fisher of this city and Mrs. Chester Culver of Carson City, Mich., also, by two sisters and two brothers residing on Vermont.
The funeral under the auspices of the Huron Lodge, F.A. & M. Was held from the M. E. Church Sunday afternoon, Rev. J. Balmer officiating. It was one of the largest ever held in this city.
Source: The Times of Harbor Beach, Michigan, April 21, 1911.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.