Smith, Hiram S.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 21, credited to Montpelier, VT Unit(s): 10th VT INF Service: enl 8/4/62, m/i 9/1/62, Pvt, Co. B, 10th VT INF, m/o 6/22/65 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 1842, Worcester, VT Death: 03/24/1903 Burial: Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier, VT Marker/Plot: Lot 594 Gravestone researcher/photographer: Kathy Valloch Findagrave Memorial #: 0 (There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it) MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 5/8/1888, VT; widow Elizabeth, 4/6/1903, 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: 10th Vt. History off-site DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Hiram S. Smith
St. Johnsbury Caledonian-Record, March 25,1903
Suicide at Montpelier
Hiram S. Smith, a veteran truckman of Montpelier, committed suicide by hanging Tuesday afternoon. He had been in poor health for some time, and for a few days had been very despondent. About the middle of the afternoon he went to his barn and was not seen again until 5:30 o'clock, when his son, Henry, who works in the National Life Insurance Co.'s office, found him hanging from a rafter above the upper floor of the barn. His son cut down the body and went immediately for assistance and an examination led to the belief that he had been dead for some time. Mr. Smith was in Co. B, 10th Vt. Vols., and reached the rank of sergeant. Immediately after the war he went into the trucking business there and has followed this occupation ever since. He was highly respected as a business man and citizen. He leaves a wife and two sons.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.