Abram and his twin sister Eliza were the 6th and 7th children of Benjamin and Margaret Rowe Eckler.
He enlisted as a private in the NY 44th Volunteers in Albany in Oct. 1861.
He was one of 10 enlisted men in the NY 44th to die in the Battle of Malvern Hill.
His remains are probably buried here, although he is not memorialized by name on any headstone.
This cemetery was established in 1866 to accommodate the remains of Union troops who died in this and the other battles in the Peninsula Campain (7 days). Of the almost 1300 bodies originally interred here (4 years after the battle) fewer than 400 were able to be identified. Three times as many were buried as unidentified, under stones marked as 1, 2 or 3 soldiers.
The cemetery manager explained that the 6x6" stone markers (about 1 ft. high) indicate the locations where they buried, human body parts...
I personally checked data bases on marked graves (as did the cemetery manager at my request) and I walked the cemetery which only about an acre in size, with Civil War graves located in about 1/4 of the area. The cemetery is still accepting burials and holds grave of veterans and there families of all wars since the Civil War.
Abram's mother collected a survivor's pension until her death in 1882. I have to assume his remains are among the unidentified at this cemetery.
He enlisted as a private in the NY 44th Volunteers in Albany in Oct. 1861.
He was one of 10 enlisted men in the NY 44th to die in the Battle of Malvern Hill.
His remains are probably buried here, although he is not memorialized by name on any headstone.
This cemetery was established in 1866 to accommodate the remains of Union troops who died in this and the other battles in the Peninsula Campain (7 days). Of the almost 1300 bodies originally interred here (4 years after the battle) fewer than 400 were able to be identified. Three times as many were buried as unidentified, under stones marked as 1, 2 or 3 soldiers.
The cemetery manager explained that the 6x6" stone markers (about 1 ft. high) indicate the locations where they buried, human body parts...
I personally checked data bases on marked graves (as did the cemetery manager at my request) and I walked the cemetery which only about an acre in size, with Civil War graves located in about 1/4 of the area. The cemetery is still accepting burials and holds grave of veterans and there families of all wars since the Civil War.
Abram's mother collected a survivor's pension until her death in 1882. I have to assume his remains are among the unidentified at this cemetery.
Abram and his twin sister Eliza were the 6th and 7th children of Benjamin and Margaret Rowe Eckler.
He enlisted as a private in the NY 44th Volunteers in Albany in Oct. 1861.
He was one of 10 enlisted men in the NY 44th to die in the Battle of Malvern Hill.
His remains are probably buried here, although he is not memorialized by name on any headstone.
This cemetery was established in 1866 to accommodate the remains of Union troops who died in this and the other battles in the Peninsula Campain (7 days). Of the almost 1300 bodies originally interred here (4 years after the battle) fewer than 400 were able to be identified. Three times as many were buried as unidentified, under stones marked as 1, 2 or 3 soldiers.
The cemetery manager explained that the 6x6" stone markers (about 1 ft. high) indicate the locations where they buried, human body parts...
I personally checked data bases on marked graves (as did the cemetery manager at my request) and I walked the cemetery which only about an acre in size, with Civil War graves located in about 1/4 of the area. The cemetery is still accepting burials and holds grave of veterans and there families of all wars since the Civil War.
Abram's mother collected a survivor's pension until her death in 1882. I have to assume his remains are among the unidentified at this cemetery.
He enlisted as a private in the NY 44th Volunteers in Albany in Oct. 1861.
He was one of 10 enlisted men in the NY 44th to die in the Battle of Malvern Hill.
His remains are probably buried here, although he is not memorialized by name on any headstone.
This cemetery was established in 1866 to accommodate the remains of Union troops who died in this and the other battles in the Peninsula Campain (7 days). Of the almost 1300 bodies originally interred here (4 years after the battle) fewer than 400 were able to be identified. Three times as many were buried as unidentified, under stones marked as 1, 2 or 3 soldiers.
The cemetery manager explained that the 6x6" stone markers (about 1 ft. high) indicate the locations where they buried, human body parts...
I personally checked data bases on marked graves (as did the cemetery manager at my request) and I walked the cemetery which only about an acre in size, with Civil War graves located in about 1/4 of the area. The cemetery is still accepting burials and holds grave of veterans and there families of all wars since the Civil War.
Abram's mother collected a survivor's pension until her death in 1882. I have to assume his remains are among the unidentified at this cemetery.
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