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Alexander, Charles Wesley

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 22, credited to Woodbury, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT LARTY, 1st VT CAV, VRC
Service: enl 2/8/1862, m/i 2/18/1862, PVT, 1st VT LARTY BTRY, dis/dsb 7/5/1862, later served in Co. 13th VRC, cred to Sanbornton, NH; enl as Charles Avery, 9/26/64, m/i 9/26/64, Pvt, Co. C, 1st VT CAV, m/o 6/21/65

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VITALS

Birth: 1846, Woodbury, VT
Death: 07/04/1892

Burial: Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, VT
Marker/Plot: Lot 158
Gravestone photographer: Monica White
Findagrave Memorial #: 72692480

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: Avery, Charles; Alexander, Wesley
Pension?: Yes, widow Mary D., 9/10/1892, 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

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, VT

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Obituary

Death of "Steeple Climber" Alexander.
[Special to the Free Press]

Montpelier, July 5. -- Charles W. Alexander, well known as the "steeple climber" and painter, and a veteran of the late war, died suddenly last night in a fit.

Source: The Burlington Free Press, 6 Jul 1892.
Transcribed by Deanna French