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Jeremiah David Andrews

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Jeremiah David Andrews

Birth
Schoharie County, New York, USA
Death
2 Apr 1910 (aged 67)
Wisconsin, USA
Burial
Stevens Point, Portage County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 16 Lot 6 Space 5
Memorial ID
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Enlisted December 5, 1861 as Private with Co. E. 18th Wisconsin Infantry absent sick at Madison Wisconsin August 15, 1862 discharged January 16, 1865.

1890 Veterans Schedules
Living at Wisconsin Portage Linwood in 1890 that's where his discharge date from and also states he was blinded in the left eye in the service.

JERIMIAH D. ANDREWS, born in Cableshill, Schoharie County, New York on 8 January 1843, came to Wisconsin as a boy with parents, Paul and Elizabeth Shumway Andrews. He was first married to Sarah Langton, (Note: The second child, Ruth, did not die but lived until 1951. She lived in the household of Genevieve and Jeremiah and was listed in the 1880 US census, aged 12 at the time, Sarah died 8 months after Ruth was born, cause unknown. Ruth Andrews Godin is listed as a family member in the obits of several other Andrews family members)she with two children died a few years later. On 23 August 1870 married Genevieve La Mere, to this union ten children were born. Eight children and his widow survive. Mr. Andrews was a riverman, woodsman and carpenter, lived in the town of Linwood, his first wife being buried there.

Mr. Andrews died 2 April 1910, of Erysipelas and stomach trouble but had been ill since fracturing his hip in December of 1908. Funeral from the residence, 315 Dixon Street, Rev. E. M. Thompson of the Episcopal church officiating. He and his wife are interred in Block 18 lot 6 of the Union Cemetery. He served in the Civil War Co. E 18th Wisconsin Infantry, during the war he lost an eye.

#71 Gazette 6 April 1910 Col: 2 p 1

(unsure which plot # is correct I have info that he was buried Blk 16 lot 6 they have listed in article Blk 18 lot 6)
Enlisted December 5, 1861 as Private with Co. E. 18th Wisconsin Infantry absent sick at Madison Wisconsin August 15, 1862 discharged January 16, 1865.

1890 Veterans Schedules
Living at Wisconsin Portage Linwood in 1890 that's where his discharge date from and also states he was blinded in the left eye in the service.

JERIMIAH D. ANDREWS, born in Cableshill, Schoharie County, New York on 8 January 1843, came to Wisconsin as a boy with parents, Paul and Elizabeth Shumway Andrews. He was first married to Sarah Langton, (Note: The second child, Ruth, did not die but lived until 1951. She lived in the household of Genevieve and Jeremiah and was listed in the 1880 US census, aged 12 at the time, Sarah died 8 months after Ruth was born, cause unknown. Ruth Andrews Godin is listed as a family member in the obits of several other Andrews family members)she with two children died a few years later. On 23 August 1870 married Genevieve La Mere, to this union ten children were born. Eight children and his widow survive. Mr. Andrews was a riverman, woodsman and carpenter, lived in the town of Linwood, his first wife being buried there.

Mr. Andrews died 2 April 1910, of Erysipelas and stomach trouble but had been ill since fracturing his hip in December of 1908. Funeral from the residence, 315 Dixon Street, Rev. E. M. Thompson of the Episcopal church officiating. He and his wife are interred in Block 18 lot 6 of the Union Cemetery. He served in the Civil War Co. E 18th Wisconsin Infantry, during the war he lost an eye.

#71 Gazette 6 April 1910 Col: 2 p 1

(unsure which plot # is correct I have info that he was buried Blk 16 lot 6 they have listed in article Blk 18 lot 6)

Inscription

Co. E. 18th Wisconsin Infantry



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