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Ellis, Lorenzo
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 28, credited to Roxbury, VT
Unit(s): 11th VT INF
Service: enl 8/8/62, m/i 9/1/62, Pvt, Co. I, 11th VT INF, m/o 6/24/65
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VITALS
Birth: 04/10/1834, Roxbury, VT
Death: 03/01/1915
Burial: Gilead Cemetery, Bethel, VT
Marker/Plot: 3
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Joe Schenkman
Findagrave Memorial #: 95766079
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes
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
Webmaster's Note: The 11th Vermont Infantry was also known as the 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery; the names were used interchangably for most of its career
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BURIAL:
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Gilead Cemetery, Bethel, VT
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Obituary
BETHEL---Lorenzo Ellis, Aged 80, Died Monday Night---Was Native Of Roxbury
Lorenzo Ellis, aged 80 years, died Monday night at his home here. Although in poor health all winter, he had not been strictly confined to his bed, and ate dinner as usual with his family that day.
He was a native of Roxbury, and had lived in Bethel about 40 years. He was survived by his wife, who was Mary Bannister, of Bethel, and by two sons, Ira Ellis, of Boston, and Maurice Ellis, of Bethel.
The funeral will occur at the home tomorrow at 2 o'clock, Rev. J. Wesley Miller officiating, with interment in the Gilead Cemetery.
Source: Barre Daily Times, March 3, 1915
Courtesy of Deanna French
