Pearce, Orion A.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 20, credited to Calais, VT Unit(s): 3rd VT INF Service: enl 7/10/61, m/i 7/16/61, CPL, Co. K, 3rd VT INF, dis/dsb 11/18/62 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: abt 1841, Calais, VT Death: 01/25/1892 Burial: Fairview Cemetery, Calais, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone researcher/photographer: Denis & Karen Jaquish Findagrave Memorial #: 0 (There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it) MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Not found 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 2nd Great Granduncle of George Pierce, Lebanon, NJ (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  Fairview Cemetery, Calais, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
Obituary
The funeral of Orion Pearce, who died at Lincoln, Neb., January 25, and whose remains were forwarded here, was held Sunday afternoon at one o'clock. The deceased was a native of Calais, but for the past twenty-three years had been a resident of Ashland, Neb., where he had been a prominent citizen, a member of the city council and for fifteen years sheriff and deputy. He was a member of Co. K, Third Regiment Vermont Volunteers, serving his country nearly a year, when in building "corduroy roads" before Lee's Mills, he received an injury in the back which at the time was considered fatal, and from which he never fully recovered, resulting a little more than two years ago in loss of reason and terminating in death. He has held high office in the Grand Army of the Republic and Masonic orders, and the casket was forwarded to his old home wrapped in his country's flag and bearing the Masonic emblems.
Source: Vermont Watchman and State Journal, February 3, 1892.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.