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Smith, Winchester

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 47, credited to Rockingham, VT
Unit(s): 12th VT INF
Service: enl 8/25/62, m/i 10/4/62, Pvt, Co. I, 12th VT INF, m/o 7/14/63

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VITALS

Birth: 07/24/1815, Rockingham, VT
Death: 05/01/1890

Burial: Riverside Cemetery, Brookline, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Bob Edwards
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 5/2/1883, 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: See Benedict's Army Life in Virginia

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Riverside Cemetery, Brookline, VT

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Obituary

BROOKLINE

Winchester Smith, who had been spending the winter with Willard Lawrence at Springfield, was brought here and buried last Saturday. He was a member of Birchard Post, G.A.R. Th post and the Relief corps attended the services, the post conducting the services at the grave.

Source: Vermont Phoenix, May 9, 1890
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.