Civil War Veterans in Fulton Cemetery block 5

[For details on this project visit the introduction in the block 01 post. By lot no.]

Block 05 consists of at least 21 and possibly as many as 22 veterans of the Civil War; at least one of which may be a cenotaph.

Lot 5.  George H. Barker (1836-1862) served in the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics and his father Capt. George J. Barker (1800-1865). Hall lists both names but only the younger George is found in the Michigan regimental index. George H. died at Covington, KY; this may be a cenotaph.

Lot 7. Esquire Chase Phillips served in the 3rd Michigan Infantry.

Lot 9.  James Patterson served in the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics and William Bloxton fought in the 25th Virginia Infantry. 

Lot 12. Frederick Deane served in the 13th Battery of the 1st Michigan Light Artillery.

Lot 13. Leonard Remington served with the 4th Michigan Cavalry.

Lot 14. Obed Foote served in the 3rd Michigan Cavalry.

Lot 15. George Crothers was a member of the 151st Ohio Infantry.

Lot 19. Benjamin Eaton served with the 6th Michigan Cavalry. Amos Rood who served with the Wisconsin 7th Infantry is reportedly buried in lot 19 but he has no marker. The cemetery burial cards do not show him in lot 19, however.

Lot 21. Albert Sidney Smith served in the the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.

Lot 23. Carlton Neal and his son Oscar both served in the 3rd Michigan Infantry. Carlton also served in Battery L of the 1st Michigan Light Artillery.

Lot 25. Cornelius Tanner and John B. Tanner both are listed as veterans by Hall but neither is found in the Michigan regimental index. Cornelius does not have a marker.

Lot 27. Spencer Squier or Squiers served with the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.

Lot 28. George Wells formerly of the 6th Michigan Cavalry. According to Chapman's 1881 History of Kent County Fred Rose is reportedly buried in lot 28 as well but he is not reported anywhere else in the sources. He may have been the same Frederick R. Rose who served in the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.

Lot 30. Rev. Francis Cuming served as chaplain for the 3rd Michigan Infantry.

Lot 32. Orson Withey is listed as a veteran by Francis Hall but is not found in the Michigan regimental index.

Lot 33. Charles Walbridge Calkins served in the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.

Civil War Veterans in Fulton Cemetery block 4

[For details on this project visit the introduction in the block 01 post. By lot no.]

Block 04 consists of at least 15 veterans of the Civil War.

Lot 1. William Lamoureaux served in the 111th New York Infantry.

Lot 4. Miles Adams joined the 3rd Michigan Infantry and his brother William enlisted in the 1st Engineer & Mechanics.

Lot 9. George Young Jr. served in the 8th Michigan Infantry.

Lot 10. John J. Ely served in the Michigan Light Artillery and while Henry Ely is noted in Hall's research as a veteran of the Civil War he is not found in the Michigan state regimental index.

Lot 11. Francis "Frank" Marvin Crawford served in the 6th Michigan Cavalry.

Lot 18. John Buchanan served in the 8th Michigan Infantry and Charles Hulbert who served in the 94th New York Infantry.

Lot 20. Hiram Ellis served in the 28th Michigan Infantry and William Herbert served in the 1st Engineer & Mechanics.

note the missing dates of death -- however William died in 1921 and was buried here

Lot 22. Curtis Porter served in the Michigan Light Artillery and Fred Porter in the 1st Engineer & Mechanics. Fred's might be a cenotaph.

Lot 25. Henry Whipple of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry.

Lot 34. Orson Chester Kellogg served in the 1st Engineer & Mechanics.

Civil War Veterans in Fulton Cemetery block 3

 [For details on this project visit the introduction in the block 01 post. By lot no.]

Block 03 consists of at least 6 veterans of the Civil War.

Lot 8. John J. Leonard served in the 2nd Michigan Infantry. His marker has disappeared.

Lot 8 1/2. Silas Pelton and his son Albert both served in the 3rd Michigan Infantry.

Lot 21. William Warn (or Ward) who according to Francis Hall served in Company H 74th Indiana Infantry. He is not found in the index for that company in the 74th Indiana.

Lot 25. John W. Simonds served in the 2nd Michigan Cavalry.

Lot 25. Martin Bierma served in the 6th Wisconsin Infantry from Milwaukee.

note Bierma's government stone slipping away on the right

Civil War Veterans in Fulton Cemetery block 2

[For details on this project visit the introduction in the block 01 post. By lot no.]

Block 02 consists of at least 10 veterans of the Civil War, including one cenotaph (Chubb).

Lot 2 is the Hartman family. Charles Hartman served in the 10th Michigan Cavalry.

Charles' marker is on the right

Lot 6. Darwin Lyon served in the 2nd Michigan Cavalry.

Lot 9. George Wesatlake served in the 21st Michigan Infantry and subsequently in the Veterans Reserve Corps (Invalid Corps). His marker is just to the right of the family stone.

Lot 10. Jeremiah W. Boynton served in the 10th Michigan Cavalry. He is not mentioned by Francis Hall. There are no separate markers for any of the family members.

Lot 14. The Chubb family and on the obelisk is a memorial for John Fay Chubb. 

John is in fact buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Lot 18. Jerome Gouldsbury who served in the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics. Like the Boynton family there are no separate markers for family members.

Lot 20. Midshipman Anthony Rutgers Truax  died in the spring of 1865 while at home on leave from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD. He is buried next to his father (?) Dr. John Truax (no marker).

Lot 28. Buried with the Walden-Marsh families in lot 28 is William Mottley who served in the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.

Lot 31. Thomas Sargeant. Not mentioned by Francis Hall or in the Michigan regimental index. His marker is gone.

Lot 33. Jonathan Silcox. Not mentioned by Francis Hall or in the Michigan regimental index. No marker.

 

Civil War Veterans in Fulton Cemetery block 1

A research project to identify and locate the 177 (more or less) Civil War Veterans buried in Fulton Street Cemetery, Grand Rapids. 

This includes 11 cenotaphs. 

Results are based cross-referencing the cemetery records (transcribed first by the D.A.R and subsequently by researchers in Grand Rapids), the cemetery's burial cards, Findagrave, State of Michigan military service records, visual confirmation, and the research of Francis Hall in the 1920s and 1930s (available in the GRPL). It should be noted that only a few have government headstones.

Block 01 (by lot no.) consists of some 17 veterans of the Civil War, which includes at least one cenotaph (Henry Lawyer).

general view of block 01

Lot 2.  Charles Robinson, veterinary surgeon of the 10th Michigan Cavalry.

Lot 7.  The McCray family including Gilbert Marshall McCray and Stuart B. McRay.

Gilbert Marshal McCray and Stuart McCray

Stuart served in the 2nd Michigan Cavalry. Gilbert, although reported as a Civil War veteran by Francis Hall, is not found in the Michigan regimental index.

Lot 8.  Edmund B. Dikeman served in the 6th Michigan Cavalry. As you can see his government stone (left) has all but disappeared below ground.

Lot 9. Alvin Drew served in the 30th Michigan Infantry, Edward in the 10th Michigan Cavalry and their father in the 2nd Michigan Cavalry.

Lot 16. Francis Magennis (government stone) served in the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics regiment.

Lot 17. Elliot Covell served in the 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics and Henry L. in the 10th Michigan Cavalry.

Elliot

Henry

Lot 20. William (Orasmus) Horton served in the 8th Michigan Infantry.

Lot 22. Franklin Wheeler served for a 100 days in the 143rd Illinois Infantry and may have served in the 3rd Michigan Infantry.

Lot 23. Charles (Charley W.) Eaton served in the 21st Michigan Infantry.

Lot 26 has two civil war veteran burials and one cenotaph. Peter Lawyer and his son Henry both served in the 3rd Michigan. Peter was discharged for disability, returned home and died in 1863; his son Henry was killed at the Wilderness, Virginia, the following year. Henry's is probably a cenotaph. Also in the lot is the Randall family. Milo  served in the 21st Michigan infantry.

Lawyer center above  the flat stone

lot 26 with the Randall family in the center

Lot 28. This burial site presents a bit of a puzzle. There are two government stones: one for Joel McLenithan and the other  S. D. McLenithan, both men having served in the 3rd Michigan. Joel, however, died in Indiana and is reportedly buried in Sumption Prairie Cemetery, North Liberty, IN. Little else is known of his brother S. D. (Stephen) after the war. To confuse matters, reportedly buried here but without a stone is their mother Mary, another brother Samuel (also without a stone) and his widow Lucina Haney. The cemetery burial records list just three McLenithans: Mary (died 1857), Joe, and Samuel (died 1880).

Lot 20. Charles Henderson served in the 2nd Michigan Cavalry.