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Weeks, Frank Willard
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 0, credited to Guilford, VT
Unit(s): 21st MA INF
Service: 21st MA INF
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VITALS
Birth: 07/09/1843, Unknown
Death: 02/28/1913
Burial: Christ Church Cemetery, Guilford, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Carolyn Adams
Findagrave Memorial #: 34621497
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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Christ Church Cemetery, Guilford, VT
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Obituary
FRANK W. WEEKS
Civil War Veteran Dies in Pearl Street Home
Frank Willard Weeks, 69 years old, died this afternoon in his home on Pearl Street after a critical illness since Monday. His health had been poor for about four months. He was born in Boonville, N. Y., and learned the trade of barber, which he followed in several towns in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He enlisted in D Co., 21st Mass., and spent over three years at the front. He was severely wounded in the right thigh in the second battle of Bull Run. He lived in Vermont at one time came to Brattleboro to live in 1880. He worked in the shop now owned by W. E. Sturgis and later purchased the shop in the Ray building. He retired several years ago. He married Miss Alice Graves of Vernon in October, 1864. Besides his widow, he leavers one daughter, Mrs. S. W. Knight, of Pearl Street. The funeral will be held in the house at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon and burial will be in East Guilford cemetery.
Source: Springfield (MA) Union, March 1, 1913
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.
