Waite, Henry Orlando
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 21, credited to Reading, VT Unit(s): 4th VT INF Service: enl 8/17/61, m/i 9/21/61, PVT, Co. C, 4th VT INF, reen 12/15/63, pr CPL 6/24/62, pr SGT 12/6/64, pr 1SGT, 5/21/65, wdd, Wilderness, 5/5/64, m/o 7/13/65 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 03/04/1840, Stephenstown, NY Death: 07/16/1913 Burial: Forestdale Cemetery, Holyoke, MA Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Heidi McColgan Findagrave Memorial #: 137149465 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Not found Portrait?: Shrewsbury Historical Society, Guber Collection off-site, USAHEC off-site 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 DESCENDANTS Great Grandfather of Cole H. Waite, Streetsboro, OH (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice   Cenotaph at Forestdale Cemetery, Holyoke, Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
Henry Waite, 1862
Henry Waite, 1866
Henry Waite, 1885
Henry Waite, 1900
Courtesy of the Shrewsbury Historical Society
Obituary
Henry O. Waite
Death of Water Power Company EmployeeHenry O. Waite of 135 Nonotuck street died this evening in his home of hardening of the arteries after an illness of about nine months. He was a member of Kilpatrick post, G.A.R. When a young man he went to Vermont and enlisted in C Co., 4th Vt. Regt., and served four years in the Army of the Potomac, participating in nearly all of the large battles, and being wounded in the battle of the Wilderness.
He was born in West Stephentown, N.Y., March 7, 1840. He was married to Sarah J. Kinsman Feb. 24, 1866, in Shrewsbury, Vt. For 29 years he had been employed by the Holyoke Water Power Company. He leaves besides his widow, four children, Coleman H. and Ralph G. of Holyoke, Perley G. of Bozeman, Mont., and Mrs. Frank S. Judd of South Hadley Falls, and 10 grandchildren. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the home. Burial will be in Forestdale cemetery.
Source: Springfield Union, July 17, 1913
Contributed by Tom Boudreau.