Bates, Lewis B.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 22, credited to Bethel, VT Unit(s): 8th VT INF Service: enl 12/23/63, m/i 1/2/64, Pvt, Co. E, 8th VT INF, m/o 5/13/65 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 1841, Bethel, VT Death: 09/03/1923 Burial: Abbott Cemetery, Stockbridge, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Bob Hackett Findagrave Memorial #: 57663563 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 3/20/1886, 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 DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Obituary
Lewis B. Bates, aged about 83, died at the Waterbury State hospital Monday morning, Sept. 3, where he had been taken from Randolph sanatorium two months before. Burial will be Thursday in Mt. Pleasant cemetery, Gaysville. Mr. Bates was born in Bethel about 1837 and lived on the place on the north road to Gaysville now occupied by Will Parsons. At times Mr. Bates drove a stage. He enlisted, Dec 23, 1863, in the 8th Vermont Regiment, mustered in Jan. 2, 1864 and mustered out May 13, 1865. He has lived most of his life in Bethel or in this vicinity.
Source: Herald and News, September 6, 1923
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.