Bruce, Warren Ellis
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 23, credited to Marlboro, VT Unit(s): 13th MA INF Service: resident Upton, MA, enl and m/i, Pvt, Co. K, 13th MA INF, 7/16/61, wdd, Antietam, 7/16/62, m/i 8/1/64 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 01/22/1837, Unknown Death: 05/21/1909 Burial: Collins Cemetery, Marlboro, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone researcher/photographer: Bob Edwards Findagrave Memorial #: 0 (There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it) MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 9/30/1890, VT; widow Lovica W., 7/11/1909, 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 (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Obituary
SOUTH NEWFANE
Death of Warren E. BruceWarren Ellis Bruce, after an illness of six months beginning with pneumonia and ending with heart trouble, died at his home in Marlboro Friday of last week. The funeral was at the house Monday afternoon a 2 o'clock, Rev. E. C. Clarke officiating. The South Newfane choir sang two selections. Services at the grave were conducted by C. B. Lawton post, No. 44, G. A. R., of Wilmington, of which he was a member. Mr. Bruce, son of Orrison and Hannah Charter Bruce, was born Jan. 22, 1837, in Marlboro, where most of his life was spent, excepting during his war service and a few years in Dover. For a tie he lived on the Hale place and in 1880 went to the Bruce homestead and remained there until his death May 21. He was a veteran of the Civil War, serving three years in Company K, 13th Massachusetts regiment, and was in the army of the Potomac, was in over 20 battles besides several skirmishes, and twice was slightly wounded. Jan. 22, 1865, Mr. Bruce married Harriet A. Bruce, who died Jan. 1, 1902. On Jan. 19, 1905, he was married to Miss Lovica W. Bruce, who survives him. He is also survived by two sons, Arthur H. Bruce, who lives at the home place, and Leon E. Bruce, of Northampton, Mass. He leaves two brothers and one sister, Charles H. Bruce of Orange., mass., George A. Bruce of Denver, Col., and Mrs. Hattie E. Priest of Mt. Holly. Mr. Bruce was a kind husband and father, a good neighbor, and will be missed from the community as well as from the home. The funeral was largely attended. Among those from out of town were the following: Mrs. George Bruce and son Robert of South Charleston, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Bruce, Claremont, Mrs. Eldora Holton, Winchester, Mrs. Mary Barrett, daughter and two sons, Mansonville, N. H., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moore, Dr. M. L. Bruce, Brattleboro, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Houghton, West Townshend, members of C. B. Lawton post, Wilmington, C. H. Bruce and son Eli of Orange, Mass.
Source: Brattleboro Reformer, May 26, 1909.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.