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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 20, credited to Peacham, VT
Unit(s): 6th VT INF
Service: enl 9/25/61, m/i 10/15/61, Pvt, Co. E, 6th VT INF, m/o 1/5/63
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VITALS
Birth: 11/24/1841, Peacham, VT
Death: 03/28/1873
Burial: Peacham Corner Cemetery, Peacham, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Francis Guber
Findagrave Memorial #: 120984654
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 12/26/1865; widow Mary, 12/16/1872, not approved
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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BURIAL:
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Peacham Corner Cemetery, Peacham, VT
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Obituary
St. Johnsbury
Dr. David M. Merrill died in this town, of consumption, March 28th, at the age of 31 years. He was son of the late David Merrill of Peacham. He had been in the practice of medicine in this village a few years, until more than a year ago he went south and spent the winter, returning last spring without material improvement.
Source: Vermont Journal, April 12, 1873
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.