|
|
Simonds, William Henry
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 21, credited to Whiting, VT
Unit(s): 17th VT INF
Service: enl 4/15/64, m/i 5/10/64, CPL, Co. H, 17th VT INF, m/o 7/14/65
See Legend for expansion of abbreviations
VITALS
Birth: 06/04/1842, Shoreham, VT
Death: 02/24/1914
Burial: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Cornwall, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Alan Lathrop
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Unknown
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: VT
(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: Died at Bennington Soldiers' Home
DESCENDANTS
(Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today)
BURIAL:
Copyright notice
Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Cornwall, VT
Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.
Obituary
Whiting --- William Henry Simonds died in the Soldiers Home in Bennington Tuesday night, Feb. 24, at 6 o'clock after a short illness. He was a former resident of this place but had been in the Soldier Home about nineteen years. He was seventy-one years of age and was a soldier in the Civil War. He leaves two children, Frank who lives in Fair Haven, Conn., and a daughter Carrie, who went to visit him on the 31st and was with him at the time of his death. He was brought to South Cornwall for burial.
Source: Middlebury Register, March 6, 1914
Courtesy of Deanna French.
