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Blake, John Libby

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 18, credited to Sutton, VT
Unit(s): 3rd VT INF, VRC
Service: enl 8/16/62, m/i 9/22/62, Pvt, Co. G, 3rd VT INF, tr to VRC 3/29/64, m/o 6/12/65

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VITALS

Birth: 03/24/1844, Sutton, VT
Death: 02/24/1930

Burial: Dexter Cemetery, Sheffield, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Harman Clark
Findagrave Memorial #: 73716916

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 7/25/1877
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

Great Grandfather of Clifford Blake, Webster, MA

Great Grandfather of David Ebelt, Appomattox, VA

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Dexter Cemetery, Sheffield, VT

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Obituary

John Blake, aged 87 years, formerly of this town, passed away Monday, Feb. 24, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Sam Ruggles in Lyndon. The body was brought here for burial Wednesday, Feb. 26.

Source: Caledonian-Record, March 1, 1930
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.