John Simon Dumser Veteran

Birth: 25 Nov 1847
Lake County, Illinois, USA
Death: 9 Dec 1949 (aged 102)
Alameda County, California, USA
Burial: Mountain View Cemetery

Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot: Plot 50
Memorial ID: 42201201 View Source

Private, Company K, 52nd Illinois Infantry; past Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and one of the last surviving Civil War veterans profiled by Life Magazine in 1949; in receipt of invalid pension from 1882. Thank you to the members of the SUV work party for finding his grave!

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Mary Ellen Benham Dumser

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