Washburn, Nelson E.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 21, credited to Bennington, VT Unit(s): 1st VT LARTY Service: enl 1/28/62, m/i 2/18/62, PVT, 1st VT LARTY BTRY, m/o 8/10/64 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 1841, Sand Lake, NY Death: 04/11/1935 Burial: Baird Cemetery, Chittenden, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Kathy Valloch Findagrave Memorial #: 46462276 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 5/2/1889, 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: None DESCENDANTS Grandfather of NELSON E. WASHBURN, Rutland, VT (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Obituary
AGED VETERAN DEAD.
Nelson Washburn, 92, of Chittenden Was in Civil War
Rutland, April 12. - Death has taken the last survivor of Azra P. Noyes post, G.A.R., of Chittenden. Nelson Washburn, 92, Civil war veteran, died yesterday at the home of his son, Leon F. Washburn, here.
Mr.Washburn was born at Sand Lake Mountain, N.Y., and enlisted in the First Vermont cavalry in July, 1861, and was discharged at New Orleans, La, Aug. 10, 1865. He served a part of his time at Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico. He fought at Red River and Baton Rouge, La.
Four generations of the Washburn family served the United States during wars, his great-grandfather having participated in the Mexican war.
Surviving him is his wife, Ida Burdett Washburn, and a son, Cecil R. Washburn of Rutland, besides the son at whose home he died.
Source: Barre Daily Times, April 12, 1935
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.