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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 30, credited to Bennington, VT
Unit(s): 4th VT INF, VRC
Service: enl 8/13/61, m/i 9/21/61, Pvt, Co. A, 4th VT INF, wdd 12/13/62, tr to VRC 3/8/64, disch 9/21/64
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VITALS
Birth: 1830, Dover, VT
Death: 03/04/1923
Burial: West Dover Village Cemetery, Dover, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Bob Edwards
Findagrave Memorial #: 171469909
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, widow Adelaide A., 5/31/1898, VT; minor, 4/8/1899, VT (d. 5/10/1897)
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: VT, KS
(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: Living at the Bennington Soldiers' Home on 1/3/1921
DESCENDANTS
Ancestor of Charles Leonard, -
2nd Great Grandfather of Henry Hornberg, Marshalltown, IA
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BURIAL:
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West Dover Village Cemetery, Dover, VT
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Obituary
Martin S. Atwood, a Civil War veteran died at the Soldiers' Home in Bennington March 14 in his ninety-third year. Death was due to old age. He was a native of Dover. Mr. Atwood was the oldest inmate of the Soldiers' Home.
Source: St. Albans Daily Messenger, March 22, 1923
Submitted by Tom Boudreau.