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Child, Willard Augustus
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 31, credited to Pittsford, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT INF, 4th VT INF, 10th VT INF
Service: comn ASURG, 1st VT INF, 4/26/61 (4/26/61), m/o 8/15/61; comn ASURG, 4th VT INF, 8/15/61 (8/15/61), pr SURG, 10th Vt, Inf, 8/6/62 (8/6/62), m/o 6/22/65 [College: CMS 59]
See Legend for expansion of abbreviations
VITALS
Birth: 09/16/1828, Pittsford, VT
Death: 02/01/1878
Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Pittsford, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, Widow
Portrait?: Gibson Collection, VHS Collections, USAHEC off-site
College?: CMS 59
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: more off-site
DESCENDANTS
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BURIAL:
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Evergreen Cemetery, Pittsford, VT
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Vermont Officers Reunion Society Collection
Courtesy Vermont Historical Society
(Gibson Collection)
Obituary
Willard A Child, M.D., whose death occurred recently, was a son of the late Rev. Willard Child.D.D. Of Pittsford, and when the rebellion broke out had recently commenced the practice of his profession in Pittsford. He immediately offered his services to the Government, and his name stands at the top of the list for those who entered from that town.At the close of the brief service, he was assigned to duty as assistant Surgeon of the 4th Regiment, Vermont Infantry, Volunteers, and in August was commissioned Surgeon of the 10th Infantry, and served throughout the war.
After the Rebellion was subdued he resumed practice at Mooers, N.Y., where he died.
BURLINGTON FREE PRESS, FEB. 22, 1878
Courtesy of Deanna FrenchObituary
BRANDON -- Capt. John W. Chase who died at his home Thursday morning, was buried with Masonic honors. Saturday at 10 o'clock. Mr. Chase was an old veteran, going out as second lieutenant, and mustered out as Captain.
BURLINGTON WEEKLY FREE PRESS, July 7, 1883
Courtesy of Deanna French
