Cook, Edson A.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 28, credited to Rutland, VT Unit(s): 1st VT CAV Service: enl 9/18/61, m/i 11/19/61, CPL, Co. H, 1st VT CAV, wdd, date?, location?, m/o 3/8/62, enl, Rutland, VT, 8/6/62, m/i, Sgt, Co. H, 37th MA INF, dis/dsb 3/21/64, Boston, MA See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 04/08/1831, Plainfield, MA Death: 08/11/1919 Burial: Ohio Veterans Home Cemetery, Sandusky, OH Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan Findagrave Memorial #: 199200136 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 6/14/1880 Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: OH (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: Pension lists 37th MA INF, Co. H as well DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Edson Cook
Sandusky Star Journal (OH)
12 Aug 1919
Soldiers' Home
Edson Cook, Aged Veteran, is Dead - Only Man in Home Who Lost Arm in Battle
Edson A. Cook, 88, one of the oldest men in the home, and the only man in the camp who had lost an arm in battle, died in the hospital at 4 p.m. Monday. He was admitted from Newton Falls, Trumbull Co., on December 5, 1918, and had twenty-three months service in the Civil war, in Co. H, First Vermont cavalry, and Co. H, Thirty-Seventh Mass. Inf. He drew a pension of $50 a month. His nearest relative is a second cousin, Benjamin F. Allen of Boston, Mass.
It is considered odd that among the hundreds of veterans in the Home, Cook was the only one who had lost an arm. There is one veteran here who lost a leg in the battle of Gettysburg.
Contributed by Erik Hinckley.