White, Ira V.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 38, credited to West Windsor, VT Unit(s): 12th VT INF Service: enl 8/19/62, m/i 10/4/62, Pvt, Co. A, 12th VT INF, m/o 7/14/63 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 1824, Windsor, VT Death: 07/25/1879 Burial: Sheddsville Cemetery, West Windsor, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Joie Finley Morris + Findagrave Memorial #: 117092278 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, widow Emily J., 7/24/1890, VT, not approved 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 DESCENDANTS 3rd Great Grandfather of James Aitken, Natick, MA 3rd Great Grandfather of Laurie Noel, New Bedford, CT (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  Sheddsville Cemetery, West Windsor, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
Obituary
SUICIDE AT CHESTER – Ira White, a man of dissolute habits, was found in the lock-up at Chester, Saturday morning, with his throat cut from ear to ear. White was crazy with delirium tremens, and was placed in the lock-up for safe keeping.
Source: Burlington Free Press, July 28, 1879.
SUICIDE AT CHESTER
Ira White, of Chester, father of Herbert O. White for whose murder Gravelin was hung, committed suicide in the lock-up during a fit of mania a potu, by nearly severing his head from his body, with an ordinary jack-knife.
Source: Argus and Patriot, July 30, 1879.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.