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Lillie, Robert Burns

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 22, credited to Bethel, VT
Unit(s): 4th VT INF
Service: enl 9/2/61, m/i 9/21/61, Pvt, Co. E, 4th VT INF, wdd, Wilderness, 5/5/64, m/o 9/30/64; 2nd PA HARTY?

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VITALS

Birth: 10/18/1838, Rochester, VT
Death: 01/31/1911

Burial: Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, VT
Marker/Plot: Lot 1838
Gravestone photographer: Kathy Valloch
Findagrave Memorial #: 62025494

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 11/27/1874
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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Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, VT

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Obituary

Robert Burns Lillie died yesterday at the home of his son, Dean K. Lillie, of old age. He was born in Bethel 72 years ago and 45 years ago married Miss Josephine Kellogg. Mr. Lillie was a painter by trade and about ten years ago moved to Montpelier. He was a veteran of the Civil war, serving four years in company E, 4th Vermont infantry and in the 2d Pennsylvania heavy artillery. A son and daughter survive, Dan K. Lillie and Mrs. J.B. Paddleford of this city. The funeral will beheld from the home at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

Source: Barre Times, Feb. 1, 1911
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.