Eliasaph David's mother Abigail Bouton Godfrey died less than a week after he was born in 1842.
The story of the graves of this mother and son is one of the most emotionally satisfying I've gotten myself into as many think they are buried together in Pleasant Valley Cemetery of Hinsdale, New York when neither are there.
I have not yet found Mrs. Godfrey's real grave in Mount View Cemetery of Olean, but on 30JAN1912 (his 70th birthday) Eliasaph positioned a cenotaph memorial to her in Pleasant Valley Cemetery of Hinsdale, NY as that's where his father David and other family members are interred. Even the online transcription adds Eliasaph "died" when he was 70 and is assumed to be there buried also, but he lived to be 95 and is with his wife Julia and at least one daughter in Glenwood Cemetery of Washington, D.C. where I learned from census records he worked a long time in the Veterans' Pension Office...then combed many online documents until stumbling into his 1937 obituary.
Eliasaph Godfrey belonged to Company C of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry of the US Civil War, and members of his family are still living well-known in Hinsdale; I have hyperlinked Eliasaph to his mother ~ the only reunion I can provide them on Earth.
The story of the graves of this mother and son is one of the most emotionally satisfying I've gotten myself into as many think they are buried together in Pleasant Valley Cemetery of Hinsdale, New York when neither are there.
I have not yet found Mrs. Godfrey's real grave in Mount View Cemetery of Olean, but on 30JAN1912 (his 70th birthday) Eliasaph positioned a cenotaph memorial to her in Pleasant Valley Cemetery of Hinsdale, NY as that's where his father David and other family members are interred. Even the online transcription adds Eliasaph "died" when he was 70 and is assumed to be there buried also, but he lived to be 95 and is with his wife Julia and at least one daughter in Glenwood Cemetery of Washington, D.C. where I learned from census records he worked a long time in the Veterans' Pension Office...then combed many online documents until stumbling into his 1937 obituary.
Eliasaph Godfrey belonged to Company C of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry of the US Civil War, and members of his family are still living well-known in Hinsdale; I have hyperlinked Eliasaph to his mother ~ the only reunion I can provide them on Earth.
Eliasaph David's mother Abigail Bouton Godfrey died less than a week after he was born in 1842.
The story of the graves of this mother and son is one of the most emotionally satisfying I've gotten myself into as many think they are buried together in Pleasant Valley Cemetery of Hinsdale, New York when neither are there.
I have not yet found Mrs. Godfrey's real grave in Mount View Cemetery of Olean, but on 30JAN1912 (his 70th birthday) Eliasaph positioned a cenotaph memorial to her in Pleasant Valley Cemetery of Hinsdale, NY as that's where his father David and other family members are interred. Even the online transcription adds Eliasaph "died" when he was 70 and is assumed to be there buried also, but he lived to be 95 and is with his wife Julia and at least one daughter in Glenwood Cemetery of Washington, D.C. where I learned from census records he worked a long time in the Veterans' Pension Office...then combed many online documents until stumbling into his 1937 obituary.
Eliasaph Godfrey belonged to Company C of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry of the US Civil War, and members of his family are still living well-known in Hinsdale; I have hyperlinked Eliasaph to his mother ~ the only reunion I can provide them on Earth.
The story of the graves of this mother and son is one of the most emotionally satisfying I've gotten myself into as many think they are buried together in Pleasant Valley Cemetery of Hinsdale, New York when neither are there.
I have not yet found Mrs. Godfrey's real grave in Mount View Cemetery of Olean, but on 30JAN1912 (his 70th birthday) Eliasaph positioned a cenotaph memorial to her in Pleasant Valley Cemetery of Hinsdale, NY as that's where his father David and other family members are interred. Even the online transcription adds Eliasaph "died" when he was 70 and is assumed to be there buried also, but he lived to be 95 and is with his wife Julia and at least one daughter in Glenwood Cemetery of Washington, D.C. where I learned from census records he worked a long time in the Veterans' Pension Office...then combed many online documents until stumbling into his 1937 obituary.
Eliasaph Godfrey belonged to Company C of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry of the US Civil War, and members of his family are still living well-known in Hinsdale; I have hyperlinked Eliasaph to his mother ~ the only reunion I can provide them on Earth.
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