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SEEK FULL ROSTER llt; OF SOLDIERS OF ’76gone and Daughters of Rev-1B , ' otation Engagedr- IN COMPILATIONNine Hundred Names Now Obtained—Cheshire HasLargest Quota of KnownSoldiers’ Grave*. • I £p:RtcBThe Wnt chapter* of th* Bw -Daughter* of th* America* R**ol»-1fc Um aro attempting to seeur* 4 1 \jplat* llat of *U the soldier* wholffl tcrrsd In th* K*toUition*!T offrom worth Berkshire. The mumber a of nth service* ha* been vario*s*r D *«Umat*d. The present *upward of II* asm** and the total u mmti b# nearly lllf. . 14The** already om lilt **• “**5 I • u the f*bttih#4 volumes. OOBPU40 c bv tit toertttrr of state of Mas**-1 o ahiueU*. whars tt volume ara J+* 11 qulred to record the aamee ot ill 1ft bthM ttlt*. BAAleOf thee* 1*0* “P perfcap* **a f dUd aad were, bgried In th* coun- o tj. The other* wait westward tootbtr #Ut« attsr tha war.Before Memorial diy in ewrt.i* mdt aach rtir to mirk with i ai* each grave* it *r« known- Miny who are known to have died about hero, lit In unknown graves. Many were burled on thelT homo farms, in place* now vadflf cultivation. A few of the** obliterated burial grounds are known, but many more are. not-Cheshire seems/to hare the larges* number of known frire*. Ad* am* bu i great many, but ihle city baa bat a few. This 1* becauce the population of the north part of the township always had a lets perma-nect lot of settlors than did Adams or* Cheshire. The ptajority of those who served from North Adams art buried In western towns.The following. U an Incomplete list of the known soldiers* graves. Most of thee* were marked for Memoriallay. „Clarksburg—Jacob Brown, Eptne-tus Ketchum, Squire Millard, Stephen Clark, Isaac Carter. Nicholas Clark.North Adsms-^-ShneoB Sweet, si-lai Bhlp#e«, Daniel Sherman, Denial Phillips, Jeremiah Colegrovc, Thom-*4 Waterman, Reuben Htman, Richard Knight, Salmon Temple, Elf Qduld. John Waterman, Kira Whitaker;-. ' _ i .Adams—Cap t, Joahta Sprague,Elisha Arnold, Simeon Potter, EHiha Burlingame, Jon 1 ah Tinney, WmbI yank#, John Fisk, James Totter, 011-rtr Chsesehro, Abraham Howland, Beorga Lapbsm, Philip Maloft, EiJhu Parker, William Patera, John Fow-sr, Daaltl Read, Sylvano* Scott, Ben-laroln flloeumb, Dantet Smith.Cheshire—James Barker, Eira Barker, Elijah Boweti, HezekiahBowen, Nathan Bowen, ValentineBowen, Elisha Bradford, DanielBrown, Elisha Brown, Sr.. Elltha Brown, Jr., John Brown, Leri Brown, Caleb Brown. Darius BuckHft, Jeremiah Bucklln, Astoh Bowen, Stephen Carpenter, Nathaniel Carpenter, Daniel Goman;' John Chase, David Diunells, Josim* Reed, James Eddy, Oliver Franklin, Isaac Hathaway, Za^heua* Hathaway,’William Jancks, Melt;lad King, Timothy Maaon, Nathan Hiton, Levi Miaan, Jonathan Richardson, Col. Joab Stafford, John Warren, Richmond Warden, Peter Warden, Stukeiey WsBtcolt. Shubael WUlmarlh, Silas Swlft Moeea Lyman, Barnet Mason, Jews Mason, James Mason, Slephen Weitcott, John Bueklin, Edward Martin, Jeremiah Green, Abraham Reed, Brooke Mason.
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North Adams Transcript
North Adams, Massachusetts, US
Wed, Jun 02, 1926
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