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Bent, William Henry

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 18, credited to Bennington, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT LARTY
Service: enl 2/5/62, m/i 2/18/62, PVT, 1st VT LARTY BTRY, m/o 8/10/64

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VITALS

Birth: 09/25/1844, Saw Lake, NY
Death: 10/22/1931

Burial: Village Cemetery, Bennington, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Tom Boudreau
Findagrave Memorial #: 28560164

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 4/27/1878
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: ME
(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 Granduncle of Donna Galipeau, Gaffney, SC

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Village Cemetery, Bennington, VT

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William H. Bent

Bennington Banner
Oct. 23, 1931
William Henry Bent, aged 87, died Thursday evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Louis Briggs of Morgan street extension. The funeral service will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. C.M. Sturgess will officiate, and burial will be in the village cemetery.


Bennington Banner
Oct. 26, 1931
The funeral service of William Henry Bent, Civil War veteran was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of his daughter, Mrs. Louis Briggs of Morgan street extension. Rev. C.M. Sturgess officiated and the burial was in the village cemetery. The bearers were Albert and John Bishop, William and Edward Bent.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau