Giffin, Richard J.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 27, credited to Colchester, VT Unit(s): 13th VT INF Service: enl 9/6/62, m/i 10/10/62, CPL, Co. D, 13th VT INF, wdd, Gettysburg, 7/3/63, m/o 7/21/63 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 1835, Hardwick, VT Death: 12/31/1902 Burial: Elmwood Cemetery, Northfield, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Kathy Valloch Findagrave Memorial #: 60341715 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 8/16/1881, VT; widow Emma A., 2/14/1903, 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: DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  Elmwood Cemetery, Northfield, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
BIOGRAPHY
R. J. GRIFFIN Second corporal, was a very tall, slimly built man. His service was in every way creditable. His health not the best but was able to serve with the regiment to the end. The only peculiar incident that I remember now about him was the loss of his voice, which he went without for some months. He died December 31, 1902, at Northfield, where he had made his home for several years.
Source: Sturtevant's Pictorial History, Thirteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, War of 1861-1865, p. 532
Obituary
DEATH IN NORTHFIELD
Richard J. Giffin died at his home in Northfield this afternoon at the age of sixty-seven years. Mr. Giffin was born in Hardwick, Vt. He married in 1858 Emma Cameron who, with eight children - five sons and three daughters - survives her husband. Mr. Giffin was a soldier of the civil war serving as corporal of Company D, Thirteenth Vermont. He had been thirty years a resident of Northfield. He had been in poor health in recent years. One brother and one sister are living.
Source: Montpelier Daily Journal, December 31, 1902.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.