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Murray, John H.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 43, credited to Lincoln, VT
Unit(s): 5th VT INF, 9th VT INF
Service: enl 9/2/64, m/i 9/2/64, Pvt, Co. B, 9th VT INF, tr to 5th VT INF, Co. C, 1/20/65, m/o 6/19/65

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VITALS

Birth: 1821, Braintree, VT
Death: 04/16/1889

Burial: Lee Cemetery, Lincoln, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Alan Lathrop
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 11/11/1878; widow Maria L., 6/19/1889, VT
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: KS
(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

Webmaster's Note: If this soldier enlisted before 9/1/62, and was with the regiment on 9/13/62, he would have briefly been taken prisoner along with the entire regiment at Harper's Ferry. Read the unit's Organization and Service for details.


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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Lee Cemetery, Lincoln, VT

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Obituary

LINCOLN

John Murray died April 16th, of pneumonia. The funeral services were held at the M. E. Church, Rev. John Magoon officiating.

Source: Vergennes Enterprise and Vermonter, April 26, 1889.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.