In reply to Unknown Civil War Soldiers:
Yes these are common in at laest, N California and Northern NV. Typically,
these people were indigent, and/or had no families left to identify them.
Since several people knew them as being around the area and that they had
been in the War, when they passed they were just buried and marked as a
"soldier", or "Civil War Vet", For some reason these people came west
to
mine and lived alone and in sometimes remote areas. It may have been by
chance that they were found at all after death. Several that we have found
in Northern NV had to be tracked through death notices, obituaries, GAR
minutes or 1890 rosters to identify them and to find out when and where they
were buried. In Lassen County, CA they buried these veterans for a few years
and never kept records of whom they were, so now 13 are marked as unknown
veterans of the civil War. Several more are marked with a small white flat
stone that simply states GAR with no name. You'll find that about 1910 to
1930 there were a mojority of Civil War Vets that died after surviving the
CW. A typical Death notice would read something like this: "An old Civil war
vet died yesterday at his lean-to on the __ Ranch. It is said that he served
with General Grant at Shiloh. He was buried in the __ Ranch, Family
Cemetery"
If you do find names they can be checked in our SUVCW data base to see if
they have already been entered. Sometimes there might be more information
available there.
Don Huffman
GRO Carlin Camp #25
Is there a database for Civil War Veterans burial locations in Indiana? I have requested
my GGGrandfather's site be marked with a flag at Memorial Day but no one could direct
me to a listing. I have an unmarked site next to a family plot that is always marked with
a flag but again, no one seems to know who it is.
Thanks
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From: crfordy<mailto:crfordy@comcast.net>
To: inpcrp@rootsweb.com<mailto:inpcrp@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] INPCRP Digest, Vol 2, Issue 58
In reply to Unknown Civil War Soldiers:
Yes these are common in at laest, N California and Northern NV. Typically,
these people were indigent, and/or had no families left to identify them.
Since several people knew them as being around the area and that they had
been in the War, when they passed they were just buried and marked as a
"soldier", or "Civil War Vet", For some reason these people came
west to
mine and lived alone and in sometimes remote areas. It may have been by
chance that they were found at all after death. Several that we have found
in Northern NV had to be tracked through death notices, obituaries, GAR
minutes or 1890 rosters to identify them and to find out when and where they
were buried. In Lassen County, CA they buried these veterans for a few years
and never kept records of whom they were, so now 13 are marked as unknown
veterans of the civil War. Several more are marked with a small white flat
stone that simply states GAR with no name. You'll find that about 1910 to
1930 there were a mojority of Civil War Vets that died after surviving the
CW. A typical Death notice would read something like this: "An old Civil war
vet died yesterday at his lean-to on the __ Ranch. It is said that he served
with General Grant at Shiloh. He was buried in the __ Ranch, Family
Cemetery"
If you do find names they can be checked in our SUVCW data base to see if
they have already been entered. Sometimes there might be more information
available there.
Don Huffman
GRO Carlin Camp #25
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