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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 29, credited to Jamaica, VT
Unit(s): 2nd VT INF
Service: drafted - enl 7/13/63, m/i 7/13/63, PVT, Co. H, 2nd VT INF, m/o 7/15/65
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VITALS
Birth: 08/20/1834, Stratton, VT
Death: 06/17/1897
Burial: Pleasant View Cemetery, Jamaica, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Carolyn Adams
Findagrave Memorial #: 118696852
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 6/12/1889, VT; widow Nancy E., 6/30/18987, VT; minor, 1/16/1901, NY
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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Pleasant View Cemetery, Jamaica, VT
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Obituary
JAMAICA
Henry Ryder died at his home in Westminster last week Thursday, June 17, at the age of 62 years. He lived in Jamaica until the last few years. His second wife survives him, also four children, three by his first wife: Mrs. L. H. Twitchell, Mrs. Wm. F. Cutting and Mrs. Fred Hosley, all of Orange, Mass., and Miss Cora, by his second wife, who is with her mother who is going to live with her son, Elic J. Brownell, by her first husband, at Springfield (Vt). The body was brought here for burial Saturday, the funeral being on Sunday at the Baptist church, Rev James Noble officiating. Scott Post, G. A. R., of which he was a member, attended in a body.
Source: Vermont Phoenix, June 25, 1897.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.