Sylvester W. Bird
Regiment Name 28 Indpt. Battery, N.Y.L. Art'y.
Side Union
Company
Soldier's Rank_In Pvt.
Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt.
Mr. Sylvester W. Bird age 68, died yesterday Dec. 22, at 6 a. m. Mr. Bird has been in ill health for many years, which gradually became worse, making him very melancholy and despondent.
Mr. S. W. Bird was born in New Jersey, Aug. 1, 1840 and lived near the towns of Hamburg, Sparta and Patterson. He served in the Civil War with the 28th Independent Battery, New York volunteers (light artillery), being honorably discharged July 1865.
He moved his family to Cedar Falls, IA 34 years ago and 4 years later moved to Cherokee County, Ft. Dodge, then being the end of the railroad. In the fall of 1892 he decided to come to Florida to avoid the severe winters of the northwest, residing at Eustis three years coming to St. Petersburg 18 years ago, where he has since lived except for two short periods spent in Tennessee.
While living at Eustis he sustained injuries in an accident at a cane mill which caused a shock from which his nervous system never fully recovered.
For several months he had been a great sufferer, though a patient one, his nerve force gradually breaking down until the end which came at about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 22nd. A wife and two sons are left in the city, a son and daughter in Tennessee, a son in Nebraska, another in Colorado and one in Idaho.
The funeral was held at the home of M. C. Bird at 2:30 p. m., the interment under the direction of S. D. Harris, being in Glenn Oaks Cemetery. St. Petersburg Times: 12-23-1908
Regiment Name 28 Indpt. Battery, N.Y.L. Art'y.
Side Union
Company
Soldier's Rank_In Pvt.
Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt.
Mr. Sylvester W. Bird age 68, died yesterday Dec. 22, at 6 a. m. Mr. Bird has been in ill health for many years, which gradually became worse, making him very melancholy and despondent.
Mr. S. W. Bird was born in New Jersey, Aug. 1, 1840 and lived near the towns of Hamburg, Sparta and Patterson. He served in the Civil War with the 28th Independent Battery, New York volunteers (light artillery), being honorably discharged July 1865.
He moved his family to Cedar Falls, IA 34 years ago and 4 years later moved to Cherokee County, Ft. Dodge, then being the end of the railroad. In the fall of 1892 he decided to come to Florida to avoid the severe winters of the northwest, residing at Eustis three years coming to St. Petersburg 18 years ago, where he has since lived except for two short periods spent in Tennessee.
While living at Eustis he sustained injuries in an accident at a cane mill which caused a shock from which his nervous system never fully recovered.
For several months he had been a great sufferer, though a patient one, his nerve force gradually breaking down until the end which came at about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 22nd. A wife and two sons are left in the city, a son and daughter in Tennessee, a son in Nebraska, another in Colorado and one in Idaho.
The funeral was held at the home of M. C. Bird at 2:30 p. m., the interment under the direction of S. D. Harris, being in Glenn Oaks Cemetery. St. Petersburg Times: 12-23-1908
Sylvester W. Bird
Regiment Name 28 Indpt. Battery, N.Y.L. Art'y.
Side Union
Company
Soldier's Rank_In Pvt.
Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt.
Mr. Sylvester W. Bird age 68, died yesterday Dec. 22, at 6 a. m. Mr. Bird has been in ill health for many years, which gradually became worse, making him very melancholy and despondent.
Mr. S. W. Bird was born in New Jersey, Aug. 1, 1840 and lived near the towns of Hamburg, Sparta and Patterson. He served in the Civil War with the 28th Independent Battery, New York volunteers (light artillery), being honorably discharged July 1865.
He moved his family to Cedar Falls, IA 34 years ago and 4 years later moved to Cherokee County, Ft. Dodge, then being the end of the railroad. In the fall of 1892 he decided to come to Florida to avoid the severe winters of the northwest, residing at Eustis three years coming to St. Petersburg 18 years ago, where he has since lived except for two short periods spent in Tennessee.
While living at Eustis he sustained injuries in an accident at a cane mill which caused a shock from which his nervous system never fully recovered.
For several months he had been a great sufferer, though a patient one, his nerve force gradually breaking down until the end which came at about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 22nd. A wife and two sons are left in the city, a son and daughter in Tennessee, a son in Nebraska, another in Colorado and one in Idaho.
The funeral was held at the home of M. C. Bird at 2:30 p. m., the interment under the direction of S. D. Harris, being in Glenn Oaks Cemetery. St. Petersburg Times: 12-23-1908
Regiment Name 28 Indpt. Battery, N.Y.L. Art'y.
Side Union
Company
Soldier's Rank_In Pvt.
Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt.
Mr. Sylvester W. Bird age 68, died yesterday Dec. 22, at 6 a. m. Mr. Bird has been in ill health for many years, which gradually became worse, making him very melancholy and despondent.
Mr. S. W. Bird was born in New Jersey, Aug. 1, 1840 and lived near the towns of Hamburg, Sparta and Patterson. He served in the Civil War with the 28th Independent Battery, New York volunteers (light artillery), being honorably discharged July 1865.
He moved his family to Cedar Falls, IA 34 years ago and 4 years later moved to Cherokee County, Ft. Dodge, then being the end of the railroad. In the fall of 1892 he decided to come to Florida to avoid the severe winters of the northwest, residing at Eustis three years coming to St. Petersburg 18 years ago, where he has since lived except for two short periods spent in Tennessee.
While living at Eustis he sustained injuries in an accident at a cane mill which caused a shock from which his nervous system never fully recovered.
For several months he had been a great sufferer, though a patient one, his nerve force gradually breaking down until the end which came at about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 22nd. A wife and two sons are left in the city, a son and daughter in Tennessee, a son in Nebraska, another in Colorado and one in Idaho.
The funeral was held at the home of M. C. Bird at 2:30 p. m., the interment under the direction of S. D. Harris, being in Glenn Oaks Cemetery. St. Petersburg Times: 12-23-1908
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