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Boyce, Robert P.
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 24, credited to Worcester, VT
Unit(s): 11th VT INF
Service: enl 7/19/62, m/i 9/1/62, Pvt, Co. I, 11th VT INF, m/o 5/13/65
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VITALS
Birth: 08/06/1836, Elmore, VT
Death: 02/04/1929
Burial: Fairmount Cemetery, Wolcott, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Deanna French
Findagrave Memorial #: 62387499
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
DESCENDANTS
Great Grandfather of Keith Bradley, -
Great Grandfather of Kenneth E. Davis, Lakeland, FL
Great Grandfather of Virginia Macey-Schuette, North Middlesex, VT
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BURIAL:
Copyright notice
Fairmount Cemetery, Wolcott, VT
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Obituary
Source: Morrisville News and Citizen: FEB 6, 1929
ROBERT BOYCE, CIVIL WAR VETERAN
OF ELMORE, DIES IN HIS 92nd YEAR, FEB. 4
Robert Boyce, one of the oldest residents of Elmore, passed away at his home this week Monday at the age of 92 years and five months. Mrs Boyce died in May, 1927.
Mr. Boyce was the father of eight children, four of which survive him; Harry of Worcester, Fred of Morrisville, Mrs. Maude Wells of Woodbury Center, and Herbert at home. There are 20 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren, and one half-sister, Lydia Hayford of Johnson, also survive.
Mr. Boyce was a Civil War Veteran, serving in Company I, 11th Regiment, Vermont Volunteers.
The funeral was held from the late home on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Roach of Wolcott officiating. Burial was made at Wolcott.
Submitted by Deanna French.
(Courtesy of Keith Bradley)
