Thomas Burgess Bourne was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, the older of two children (joining several half-siblings) of Henry Bourne and his second wife Sarah Mears Haskell. He was working as a pressman when at age 19 he enlisted as a private in Company I of the 3rd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in September 1862 for nine months' service. Mustered out at Camp Hooker, MA in June 1863, he was promoted to 1st Sergeant on 21 Mar 1864. He mustered in again, this time in Company H of the 58th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Listed as Missing in Action on 6 May 1864 during the battle of The Wilderness, he was a POW in the infamous Confederate Andersonville Prison in Georgia from 26 May to Sep 1864, when he was transferred possibly to the Florence, SC prison and definitely to the Salisbury POW camp in NC. Paroled on 26 Feb 1865, he was part of a prisoner swap that marched him, as part of a large group of more able-bodied prisoners, to Greensboro, NC and then by train to Wilmington, NC. By now in dire condition, he had to be carried aboard the transport ship "Tillie" (coincidentally commanded by his half-brother Capt Henry A. Bourne) and taken to a military hospital at Annapolis, from which he was released back to his regiment on 5 May and mustered out in Washington, DC for a final time on 14 July, 1865.
In Apr 1868 he married Sarah Ann Tozer, but she died of puerperal fever a month shy of their first anniversary and a week after the birth of their first child, Alice Ann, who also died (of cholera infantum) five months later.
On Sept 1, 1870 he married Harriet "Hattie" Alice Payson (1840-1899), with whom he had four children between 1871 and 1877. By 1870 and until his retirement he was a house carpenter in Foxborough, MA, building many of the homes and businesses there. For many years he was a deacon in the Congregational church and Commander of the local Grand Army of the Republic post. A popular and highly regarded member of the community, he died of a stroke on Christmas Eve, 1931 at age 88, and was buried on 2 Jan 1932 in Rock Hill Cemetery in Foxborough with full military honors.
Phyllis Bourne (1912-1991), whose name appears on the headstone, was Thomas' granddaughter, daughter of his & Harriet's son Phillips Payson Bourne.
Listed as Missing in Action on 6 May 1864 during the battle of The Wilderness, he was a POW in the infamous Confederate Andersonville Prison in Georgia from 26 May to Sep 1864, when he was transferred possibly to the Florence, SC prison and definitely to the Salisbury POW camp in NC. Paroled on 26 Feb 1865, he was part of a prisoner swap that marched him, as part of a large group of more able-bodied prisoners, to Greensboro, NC and then by train to Wilmington, NC. By now in dire condition, he had to be carried aboard the transport ship "Tillie" (coincidentally commanded by his half-brother Capt Henry A. Bourne) and taken to a military hospital at Annapolis, from which he was released back to his regiment on 5 May and mustered out in Washington, DC for a final time on 14 July, 1865.
In Apr 1868 he married Sarah Ann Tozer, but she died of puerperal fever a month shy of their first anniversary and a week after the birth of their first child, Alice Ann, who also died (of cholera infantum) five months later.
On Sept 1, 1870 he married Harriet "Hattie" Alice Payson (1840-1899), with whom he had four children between 1871 and 1877. By 1870 and until his retirement he was a house carpenter in Foxborough, MA, building many of the homes and businesses there. For many years he was a deacon in the Congregational church and Commander of the local Grand Army of the Republic post. A popular and highly regarded member of the community, he died of a stroke on Christmas Eve, 1931 at age 88, and was buried on 2 Jan 1932 in Rock Hill Cemetery in Foxborough with full military honors.
Phyllis Bourne (1912-1991), whose name appears on the headstone, was Thomas' granddaughter, daughter of his & Harriet's son Phillips Payson Bourne.
Thomas Burgess Bourne was born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, the older of two children (joining several half-siblings) of Henry Bourne and his second wife Sarah Mears Haskell. He was working as a pressman when at age 19 he enlisted as a private in Company I of the 3rd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in September 1862 for nine months' service. Mustered out at Camp Hooker, MA in June 1863, he was promoted to 1st Sergeant on 21 Mar 1864. He mustered in again, this time in Company H of the 58th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Listed as Missing in Action on 6 May 1864 during the battle of The Wilderness, he was a POW in the infamous Confederate Andersonville Prison in Georgia from 26 May to Sep 1864, when he was transferred possibly to the Florence, SC prison and definitely to the Salisbury POW camp in NC. Paroled on 26 Feb 1865, he was part of a prisoner swap that marched him, as part of a large group of more able-bodied prisoners, to Greensboro, NC and then by train to Wilmington, NC. By now in dire condition, he had to be carried aboard the transport ship "Tillie" (coincidentally commanded by his half-brother Capt Henry A. Bourne) and taken to a military hospital at Annapolis, from which he was released back to his regiment on 5 May and mustered out in Washington, DC for a final time on 14 July, 1865.
In Apr 1868 he married Sarah Ann Tozer, but she died of puerperal fever a month shy of their first anniversary and a week after the birth of their first child, Alice Ann, who also died (of cholera infantum) five months later.
On Sept 1, 1870 he married Harriet "Hattie" Alice Payson (1840-1899), with whom he had four children between 1871 and 1877. By 1870 and until his retirement he was a house carpenter in Foxborough, MA, building many of the homes and businesses there. For many years he was a deacon in the Congregational church and Commander of the local Grand Army of the Republic post. A popular and highly regarded member of the community, he died of a stroke on Christmas Eve, 1931 at age 88, and was buried on 2 Jan 1932 in Rock Hill Cemetery in Foxborough with full military honors.
Phyllis Bourne (1912-1991), whose name appears on the headstone, was Thomas' granddaughter, daughter of his & Harriet's son Phillips Payson Bourne.
Listed as Missing in Action on 6 May 1864 during the battle of The Wilderness, he was a POW in the infamous Confederate Andersonville Prison in Georgia from 26 May to Sep 1864, when he was transferred possibly to the Florence, SC prison and definitely to the Salisbury POW camp in NC. Paroled on 26 Feb 1865, he was part of a prisoner swap that marched him, as part of a large group of more able-bodied prisoners, to Greensboro, NC and then by train to Wilmington, NC. By now in dire condition, he had to be carried aboard the transport ship "Tillie" (coincidentally commanded by his half-brother Capt Henry A. Bourne) and taken to a military hospital at Annapolis, from which he was released back to his regiment on 5 May and mustered out in Washington, DC for a final time on 14 July, 1865.
In Apr 1868 he married Sarah Ann Tozer, but she died of puerperal fever a month shy of their first anniversary and a week after the birth of their first child, Alice Ann, who also died (of cholera infantum) five months later.
On Sept 1, 1870 he married Harriet "Hattie" Alice Payson (1840-1899), with whom he had four children between 1871 and 1877. By 1870 and until his retirement he was a house carpenter in Foxborough, MA, building many of the homes and businesses there. For many years he was a deacon in the Congregational church and Commander of the local Grand Army of the Republic post. A popular and highly regarded member of the community, he died of a stroke on Christmas Eve, 1931 at age 88, and was buried on 2 Jan 1932 in Rock Hill Cemetery in Foxborough with full military honors.
Phyllis Bourne (1912-1991), whose name appears on the headstone, was Thomas' granddaughter, daughter of his & Harriet's son Phillips Payson Bourne.
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Husband of Sarah Tozer and Harriet Payson, grandfather of Phyllis Bourne
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