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From: "Kathy & Ted Schmitz" <>
Subject: Re: [IN-CIVIL-WAR] IN CW burials
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:42:34 -0600
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Dear list, I have that same problem. Where is my ancestor buried or do we
know?
Maybe some were not buried.
Kathy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Colleen Knights" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 8:26 AM
Subject: [IN-CIVIL-WAR] IN CW burials


> Kathleen,
>
> Thanks for opening up discussions on this list.
>
> Mark,
> I would appreciate it if you would check your burial data for the
following
> soldier.
>
> Edward Whitney
> Claimed Residence in Lagrange
> Enlist Date 15 August 1862
> Served Indiana Enlisted C Co. 100th Inf Reg. IN
> Killed at Missionary Ridge, TN on 25 November 1863
>
> If you don't have him listed, I'd be interested in any information you
might
> have on other members of his regiment who were killed in this battle.
> Knowing where they were buried, might help.
>
> I've checked with the Chattanooga National Cemetery and he is not listed
in
> their records. The park historian was kind enough to check the registers
of
> the National Cemeteries at Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tennessee, and
> Louisville, Kentucky, placed on the railroad line of communications behind
> the Union Army of the Cumberland, to see if his body had been moved to one
> of those places at some point. There was no likely entry.
>
> Neither his CMSR or his widow's pension record notes a place of burial.
It
> is difficult to say where his body would have been sent - if it was, in
> fact, moved. His wife/widow was living in Saratoga or Washington Co., New
> York at the time of his death in 1863. In 1860 Edward was living with
Edwin
> Owen's family in Clay, LaGrange, while she remained in NY. I suspect he's
> related in some way to Edwin's wife, Mary and her mother, Anna Brockway,
who
> also lived with them. It is possible he was working for the railroad.
Some
> time in 1863 the Owen's moved to Van Buren so that would be another
> possibility.
>
> Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Colleen Knights
> Cincinnati, OH
> >
> > Wow. I forgot that I was on this list too.
> >
> > I have 14,000 burial sites of IN CW soldiers compiled if anyone is
looking
> > for a CW ancestor.
>
>
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