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Jefferds, John Gillespie

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 22, credited to Washington, VT
Unit(s): 9th VT INF
Service: enl 1/4/64, m/i 1/9/64, PVT, Co. I, 9th VT INF, pr CPL 11/27/64, pr SGT 6/19/65, tr to Co. D, 6/13/65, pr SGTMAJ 11/1/65, m/o 12/1/65

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VITALS

Birth: 04/27/1841, Mount Vernon, NH
Death: 04/26/1927

Burial: Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Jennifer Snoots
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 7/19/1892, MA
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

Webmaster's Note: If this soldier enlisted before 9/1/62, and was with the regiment on 9/13/62, he would have briefly been taken prisoner along with the entire regiment at Harper's Ferry. Read the unit's Organization and Service for details.


DESCENDANTS

Grandfather of Peter Jefferds, Oak Harbor, WA

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BURIAL:

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Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI

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