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Danforth, Alonzo W.
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 19, credited to Bristol, VT
Unit(s): 6th VT INF, VRC
Service: enl 9/30/61, m/i 10/15/61, PVT, Co. A, 6th VT INF, pr CPL 11/1/62, reen 12/15/63, wdd, Salem Heights, 5/3/63, wdd, Wilderness, 5/5/64, tr to 171st Co., 2nd Btln, VRC, 10/11/64, m/o 7/17/65
See Legend for expansion of abbreviations
VITALS
Birth: 03/26/1842, Starksboro, VT
Death: 04/01/1909
Burial: Briggs Hill Cemetery, Bristol, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Alan Lathrop
Findagrave Memorial #: 40318707
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 10/23/1865; widow Ida C., 5/6/1909, VT
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
DESCENDANTS
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BURIAL:
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Briggs Hill Cemetery, Bristol, VT
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Obituary
Alonzo Danforth, aged 67 years, who died Thursday at his home in Bristol, was a veteran of the civil war, having served in Company A, 6th Vermont volunteers. He had suffered from a cancer of the neck for over a year.
Source: Rutland Daily Herald, April 6, 1909
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.
