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Lyon, Albert D.
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 20, credited to St. Johnsbury, VT
Unit(s): 17th VT INF
Service: enl 2/24/64, m/i 4/12/64, Pvt, Co. G, 17th VT INF, m/o 7/14/65
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VITALS
Birth: 10/09/1844, Massachusetts
Death: 04/24/1867
Burial: Grove Cemetery, St. Johnsbury, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 30107048
MORE 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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Grove Cemetery, St. Johnsbury, VT
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Obituary
MAN DROWNED--Albert Lyon of Waterford was drowned at West Concord on the 24th inst. He, with three others were running logs in Moose River, when he was in some way knocked into the stream, and before assistance was rendered by the others, he was drowned.
Young Lyon was a member of the 17th Vermont regiment, and was with Grant from the Rapidan to to Richmond without sustaining a scratch.
He leaves no wife, but a mother who was dependant on him for support.
Source: Rutland Weekly Herald, May 2, 1867
Courtesy of Deanna French
