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Henry Clay Van Vorhes Veteran

Birth
Athens County, Ohio, USA
Death
Mar 1888 (aged 48)
Burial
Buried or Lost at Sea. Specifically: Gulf of Alaska Add to Map
Memorial ID
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resident of Stillwater, Minnesota, his name is also spelled Van Voorhees; Civil War veteran of Company B, 1st Minnesota Infantry, serving eighteen months; in 1887 he sought economic opportunity and went to Alaska Territory, where his ship was lost in the Gulf of Alaska off Sitka; he was in receipt of Civil War pension at the time and his last pension voucher mailing address was probably Seattle.
resident of Stillwater, Minnesota, his name is also spelled Van Voorhees; Civil War veteran of Company B, 1st Minnesota Infantry, serving eighteen months; in 1887 he sought economic opportunity and went to Alaska Territory, where his ship was lost in the Gulf of Alaska off Sitka; he was in receipt of Civil War pension at the time and his last pension voucher mailing address was probably Seattle.


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