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Derby, Horace Rice

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 0, credited to Poultney, VT
Unit(s): 1st CA INF, 5th CA INF
Service: enl 12/9/61, cred. Sacramento, CA, m/i, SGT, Co. E 5th CA INF, tr to Co. F 1st CA INF, 11/30/64, m/o 12/24/64, Las Cruses, NM

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VITALS

Birth: 10/15/1837, Hampton, NY
Death: 03/05/1920

Burial: Poultney Cemetery, Poultney, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Steve Smith
Findagrave Memorial #: 23647846

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 6/10/1891, VT
Portrait?: Poultney GAR Collection
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

Great Grandfather of Jack Derby, Bondville, VT

Great Grandfather of John Derby, Bondville, VT

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Poultney Cemetery, Poultney, VT

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Portrait

Poultney G.A.R. Post Photo Collage)

Obituary

Horace Derby Dies.

Horace Derby, aged 75 years, died at his home on Granville street at 12:30 o'clock on Wednesday. He has not been in good health for some time. He is survived by one son, Howard Derby of West Somerville, Mass. The funeral arrangements have not been made.

Source: Rutland Daily Herald, March 4, 1920
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.