Vermont Civil War, Lest We Forget

Individual Record

Drown, Nelson

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 26, credited to Greensboro, VT
Unit(s): 15th VT INF
Service: enl 9/3/62, m/i 10/22/62, Pvt, Co. I, 15th VT INF; sick with typhoid fever, sent to Fairfax Seminary Hosp., 5/7/63; detailed as Nurse, 6/7/63, remaining at hosp. until 8/1/63; m/o 8/5/63, Brattleboro

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VITALS

Birth: 1820, Swanton, VT
Death: 02/08/1914

Burial: Village Cemetery, Greensboro, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Deanna French

Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Unknown
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

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BURIAL:
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Tombstone

Village Cemetery, Greensboro, VT
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Obituary

Greensboro, Feb. 10 --- Nelson Drown died Sunday afternoon at the home of his son, N.L. Drown, where he lived for several years --- Mr.Drown had been in feeble health for a long time, but was feeling as well as usual in the morning, and said he was going to church. He went to his room to get ready and not coming out again as soon as expected his son went and found him lying down. Mr.Drown said he was not feeling quite as well, and thought he would not go to church. A doctor was called, but he continued to fail and died in a few hours. He was 77 years of age and was an original member of Company I, First Regiment, Vermont Volunteers.

The Barre Daily Times, February 10, 1914

Courtesy of Deanna French.

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