Parsons, Henry Chester
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 21, credited to St. Albans, VT Unit(s): 1st VT CAV Service: comn CPT, Co. L, 1st VT CAV, 9/18/62 (9/25/62), wdd, Gettysburg, 7/3/63, treated at Court-House, then Peter Stallsmith house, then Gnrl. Hosp. Gettysburg, dis/wds 1/4/64 [College: UVM 62] See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 09/25/1840, Unknown Death: 06/29/1894 Burial: High Bridge Presbyterian Cemetery, Natural Bridge, VA Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux Findagrave Memorial #: 12412257 Cenotaph: Greenwood Cemetery, St. Albans, VT Marker/Plot: Gravestone researcher/photographer: Jim Fouts Findagrave Memorial #: 148226202 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 4/9/1866; widow Nellie L., 12/31/1897, VA Portrait?: Guber Collection off-site College?: UVM 62 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 Granduncle of Marc Parsons, High Point, NC (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice   High Bridge Presbyterian Cemetery, Natural Bridge, VA Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. CENOTAPH:  Cenotaph in Greenwood Cemetery, Saint Albans, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may have cenotaphs there. |
Obituary
Source: Vermont Journal, July 7, 1894Colonel Henry G. Parsons, the owner of Natural Bridge, Virginia, was shot and killed at Clifton Forge, Va., Thursday night, by Goodwin, a conductor, whom Colonel Parsons had reported for alleged neglect of duty. Col. Parsons was a native of St. Albans, Vt., a graduate of Middelbury college, a captain in the 1st Vt. Cavalry, and was seriously wounded in the side at Gettysburg. He was offered a pension but refused it, and married a daughter of the late Professor Nathan Loomis of West Springfield in 1864. In company with the late James G. Blaine he bought and largely developed the Natural Bridge property as a summer resort and maintained three hotels there. He projected the Richmond & Allegheny railroad, and was its first president, and was identified with several mining and pubic projects. He was one of the most prominent republicans in Virginia. He was an enthusiastic Blaine man, and attempted to carry Virginia for him. He broke with Mahone, but in recent years has had little to do with politics. He was sixty years old and leaves a wife and three daughters.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.