Wlliam D's was a war time death, his end at Camp Cuba Libre, described below.
Thanks to FindaGrave member Jim Craig for creating the page, to Meredith for her photograph showing the top of the stone next to his says "Father". To these, we add a bio. Search robots cannot read photographed gravestones accurately, too grainy and spotted, so a fuller inscription is added.
BIO. Did he mind having so many sisters, or think it was an advantage? Wm's 1880 US Census, at age 9, with widowed mother Sarah as head, age 40, showed a big family, all girls but him, ages 25 to 12. Mother Sarah came from England, as had his deceased father, a William Veazie using no initial. Maybe his eldest sister, Isabella, was born there? Also a widow, her first married name was not given in the 1880, and she had not yet remarried, to Mr. Mackie.
Some other elder sisters there, unlike Isabella, were more clearly Massachusetts-born, where they'd lived before coming to Chicago. "Just visiting" in 1880 would be his second-eldest sister, Elizabeth, age 24, with a check in the married column, to show she was not widowed. Her husband was not present, presumed working somewhere. Again, Elizabeth was show without her married surname.
His father was still living when they came to Illinois, young William to be the last of the three born there. Their father died when he was four. Was the boy too little to remember him? Their house, later, in 1880, was not far from Canal Street (at 368 Fulton St), in what is now downtown Chicago. The area is now filled, with office buildings and retail uses.
Eldest sister Isabella, in 1880, was seen in the family's earlier 1860 Census, done in Cambridge, Ma, northish of Boston. She was labelled , that time, as born Mass., not England She was age 9, back then, her father calling himself a brass finisher. Of four girls there, the second was written as M. E. (M. Elizabeth?), sister Anna was third, the fourth an unnamed infant, to be called Emma J. by her death, too soon after. Images of those two key handwritten census forms are archived online, as of this writing:
1880 SOURCE, CHICAGO, IL: Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYYY-9S3K?i=5
1860 SOURCE, CAMBRIDGE, MA: Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BSS-Q3H?i=91
Eldest sister Isabella would remarry, later, in Chicago, to an Alexander Mackie, of Scotland, to be unlucky and widowed again. Many things still deadly then are curable now. She would bury him also at Rose Hill, after her father was put there, but before her brother died. She then supported herself and son Rae A by working as a servant, until the son was old enough to begin working.
CUBA LIBRE--Freeing Cuba.
Some things repeat. Many more soldiers died in the Civil War from camp=spread diseases, than from battle wounds. This happened again, in August of 1898, the month typhoid fever came to Camp Cuba Libre, reviously called Camp Springfield, its Florida location gave it easy access to the Spanish-speaking island about 90 miles away (across the water, measured from Florida's tip).
What events caused his being sent there, contributing to his death? From a source on "Florida Historical Markers":
" On April 25, 1898, the United States declared war on Spain after the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor resulted in the deaths of 260 Americans. When President William McKinley called for 125,000 volunteers, camps were established to serve as rallying points for soldiers awaiting deployment. On May 22, soldiers of the 2nd Division, 7th Corp of the U.S. Volunteers (USV) arrived here under the command of Major General Fitzhugh Lee and Colonel William Jennings Bryan. Originally named Camp Springfield, it was later called Camp Cuba Libre (Free Cuba). Volunteer units from all over the country were stationed here. This exact site was the camp of the 1st North Carolina Volunteers....
"By August, Camp Cuba Libre had nearly 30,000 men, supplies were scarce, and typhoid was a constant threat. Army physician Major Walter Reed visited the camp to study the origins and transmission of typhoid...
"Most of the volunteers at the camp never saw combat. Some were deployed to Havana aboard the Roumanian on December 7, but the fighting ceased after the signing of the Treaty of Paris with Spain on December 10, 1898. The following day, the deployed volunteers became the first USVs to set foot in an independent Cuba."
SOURCE: Apps.FLHeritage.com/markers/ Search for Cuba Libre
HIS MOTHER. We know her death date from pension work, July 23, 1911, granted to her son's elderly survivor, due to his service. She would have needed to prove identity in order to qualify, given he was a war casualty and she was widowed. There should be a folder of key records, much richer than what's findable online, at the National Archives in DC, next to the Library of Congress. She qualified in Jan. 1899. An application number, not just a certificate number, maybe needed to request the best folders. The certificate number is here
Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-C13X-L8?i=657
JB, 2021 Oct, revised 2022 (Oct. and Dec)
Thanks to FindaGrave member Jim Craig for creating the page, to Meredith for her photograph showing the top of the stone next to his says "Father". To these, we add a bio. Search robots cannot read photographed gravestones accurately, too grainy and spotted, so a fuller inscription is added.
BIO. Did he mind having so many sisters, or think it was an advantage? Wm's 1880 US Census, at age 9, with widowed mother Sarah as head, age 40, showed a big family, all girls but him, ages 25 to 12. Mother Sarah came from England, as had his deceased father, a William Veazie using no initial. Maybe his eldest sister, Isabella, was born there? Also a widow, her first married name was not given in the 1880, and she had not yet remarried, to Mr. Mackie.
Some other elder sisters there, unlike Isabella, were more clearly Massachusetts-born, where they'd lived before coming to Chicago. "Just visiting" in 1880 would be his second-eldest sister, Elizabeth, age 24, with a check in the married column, to show she was not widowed. Her husband was not present, presumed working somewhere. Again, Elizabeth was show without her married surname.
His father was still living when they came to Illinois, young William to be the last of the three born there. Their father died when he was four. Was the boy too little to remember him? Their house, later, in 1880, was not far from Canal Street (at 368 Fulton St), in what is now downtown Chicago. The area is now filled, with office buildings and retail uses.
Eldest sister Isabella, in 1880, was seen in the family's earlier 1860 Census, done in Cambridge, Ma, northish of Boston. She was labelled , that time, as born Mass., not England She was age 9, back then, her father calling himself a brass finisher. Of four girls there, the second was written as M. E. (M. Elizabeth?), sister Anna was third, the fourth an unnamed infant, to be called Emma J. by her death, too soon after. Images of those two key handwritten census forms are archived online, as of this writing:
1880 SOURCE, CHICAGO, IL: Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYYY-9S3K?i=5
1860 SOURCE, CAMBRIDGE, MA: Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BSS-Q3H?i=91
Eldest sister Isabella would remarry, later, in Chicago, to an Alexander Mackie, of Scotland, to be unlucky and widowed again. Many things still deadly then are curable now. She would bury him also at Rose Hill, after her father was put there, but before her brother died. She then supported herself and son Rae A by working as a servant, until the son was old enough to begin working.
CUBA LIBRE--Freeing Cuba.
Some things repeat. Many more soldiers died in the Civil War from camp=spread diseases, than from battle wounds. This happened again, in August of 1898, the month typhoid fever came to Camp Cuba Libre, reviously called Camp Springfield, its Florida location gave it easy access to the Spanish-speaking island about 90 miles away (across the water, measured from Florida's tip).
What events caused his being sent there, contributing to his death? From a source on "Florida Historical Markers":
" On April 25, 1898, the United States declared war on Spain after the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor resulted in the deaths of 260 Americans. When President William McKinley called for 125,000 volunteers, camps were established to serve as rallying points for soldiers awaiting deployment. On May 22, soldiers of the 2nd Division, 7th Corp of the U.S. Volunteers (USV) arrived here under the command of Major General Fitzhugh Lee and Colonel William Jennings Bryan. Originally named Camp Springfield, it was later called Camp Cuba Libre (Free Cuba). Volunteer units from all over the country were stationed here. This exact site was the camp of the 1st North Carolina Volunteers....
"By August, Camp Cuba Libre had nearly 30,000 men, supplies were scarce, and typhoid was a constant threat. Army physician Major Walter Reed visited the camp to study the origins and transmission of typhoid...
"Most of the volunteers at the camp never saw combat. Some were deployed to Havana aboard the Roumanian on December 7, but the fighting ceased after the signing of the Treaty of Paris with Spain on December 10, 1898. The following day, the deployed volunteers became the first USVs to set foot in an independent Cuba."
SOURCE: Apps.FLHeritage.com/markers/ Search for Cuba Libre
HIS MOTHER. We know her death date from pension work, July 23, 1911, granted to her son's elderly survivor, due to his service. She would have needed to prove identity in order to qualify, given he was a war casualty and she was widowed. There should be a folder of key records, much richer than what's findable online, at the National Archives in DC, next to the Library of Congress. She qualified in Jan. 1899. An application number, not just a certificate number, maybe needed to request the best folders. The certificate number is here
Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-C13X-L8?i=657
JB, 2021 Oct, revised 2022 (Oct. and Dec)
Wlliam D's was a war time death, his end at Camp Cuba Libre, described below.
Thanks to FindaGrave member Jim Craig for creating the page, to Meredith for her photograph showing the top of the stone next to his says "Father". To these, we add a bio. Search robots cannot read photographed gravestones accurately, too grainy and spotted, so a fuller inscription is added.
BIO. Did he mind having so many sisters, or think it was an advantage? Wm's 1880 US Census, at age 9, with widowed mother Sarah as head, age 40, showed a big family, all girls but him, ages 25 to 12. Mother Sarah came from England, as had his deceased father, a William Veazie using no initial. Maybe his eldest sister, Isabella, was born there? Also a widow, her first married name was not given in the 1880, and she had not yet remarried, to Mr. Mackie.
Some other elder sisters there, unlike Isabella, were more clearly Massachusetts-born, where they'd lived before coming to Chicago. "Just visiting" in 1880 would be his second-eldest sister, Elizabeth, age 24, with a check in the married column, to show she was not widowed. Her husband was not present, presumed working somewhere. Again, Elizabeth was show without her married surname.
His father was still living when they came to Illinois, young William to be the last of the three born there. Their father died when he was four. Was the boy too little to remember him? Their house, later, in 1880, was not far from Canal Street (at 368 Fulton St), in what is now downtown Chicago. The area is now filled, with office buildings and retail uses.
Eldest sister Isabella, in 1880, was seen in the family's earlier 1860 Census, done in Cambridge, Ma, northish of Boston. She was labelled , that time, as born Mass., not England She was age 9, back then, her father calling himself a brass finisher. Of four girls there, the second was written as M. E. (M. Elizabeth?), sister Anna was third, the fourth an unnamed infant, to be called Emma J. by her death, too soon after. Images of those two key handwritten census forms are archived online, as of this writing:
1880 SOURCE, CHICAGO, IL: Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYYY-9S3K?i=5
1860 SOURCE, CAMBRIDGE, MA: Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BSS-Q3H?i=91
Eldest sister Isabella would remarry, later, in Chicago, to an Alexander Mackie, of Scotland, to be unlucky and widowed again. Many things still deadly then are curable now. She would bury him also at Rose Hill, after her father was put there, but before her brother died. She then supported herself and son Rae A by working as a servant, until the son was old enough to begin working.
CUBA LIBRE--Freeing Cuba.
Some things repeat. Many more soldiers died in the Civil War from camp=spread diseases, than from battle wounds. This happened again, in August of 1898, the month typhoid fever came to Camp Cuba Libre, reviously called Camp Springfield, its Florida location gave it easy access to the Spanish-speaking island about 90 miles away (across the water, measured from Florida's tip).
What events caused his being sent there, contributing to his death? From a source on "Florida Historical Markers":
" On April 25, 1898, the United States declared war on Spain after the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor resulted in the deaths of 260 Americans. When President William McKinley called for 125,000 volunteers, camps were established to serve as rallying points for soldiers awaiting deployment. On May 22, soldiers of the 2nd Division, 7th Corp of the U.S. Volunteers (USV) arrived here under the command of Major General Fitzhugh Lee and Colonel William Jennings Bryan. Originally named Camp Springfield, it was later called Camp Cuba Libre (Free Cuba). Volunteer units from all over the country were stationed here. This exact site was the camp of the 1st North Carolina Volunteers....
"By August, Camp Cuba Libre had nearly 30,000 men, supplies were scarce, and typhoid was a constant threat. Army physician Major Walter Reed visited the camp to study the origins and transmission of typhoid...
"Most of the volunteers at the camp never saw combat. Some were deployed to Havana aboard the Roumanian on December 7, but the fighting ceased after the signing of the Treaty of Paris with Spain on December 10, 1898. The following day, the deployed volunteers became the first USVs to set foot in an independent Cuba."
SOURCE: Apps.FLHeritage.com/markers/ Search for Cuba Libre
HIS MOTHER. We know her death date from pension work, July 23, 1911, granted to her son's elderly survivor, due to his service. She would have needed to prove identity in order to qualify, given he was a war casualty and she was widowed. There should be a folder of key records, much richer than what's findable online, at the National Archives in DC, next to the Library of Congress. She qualified in Jan. 1899. An application number, not just a certificate number, maybe needed to request the best folders. The certificate number is here
Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-C13X-L8?i=657
JB, 2021 Oct, revised 2022 (Oct. and Dec)
Thanks to FindaGrave member Jim Craig for creating the page, to Meredith for her photograph showing the top of the stone next to his says "Father". To these, we add a bio. Search robots cannot read photographed gravestones accurately, too grainy and spotted, so a fuller inscription is added.
BIO. Did he mind having so many sisters, or think it was an advantage? Wm's 1880 US Census, at age 9, with widowed mother Sarah as head, age 40, showed a big family, all girls but him, ages 25 to 12. Mother Sarah came from England, as had his deceased father, a William Veazie using no initial. Maybe his eldest sister, Isabella, was born there? Also a widow, her first married name was not given in the 1880, and she had not yet remarried, to Mr. Mackie.
Some other elder sisters there, unlike Isabella, were more clearly Massachusetts-born, where they'd lived before coming to Chicago. "Just visiting" in 1880 would be his second-eldest sister, Elizabeth, age 24, with a check in the married column, to show she was not widowed. Her husband was not present, presumed working somewhere. Again, Elizabeth was show without her married surname.
His father was still living when they came to Illinois, young William to be the last of the three born there. Their father died when he was four. Was the boy too little to remember him? Their house, later, in 1880, was not far from Canal Street (at 368 Fulton St), in what is now downtown Chicago. The area is now filled, with office buildings and retail uses.
Eldest sister Isabella, in 1880, was seen in the family's earlier 1860 Census, done in Cambridge, Ma, northish of Boston. She was labelled , that time, as born Mass., not England She was age 9, back then, her father calling himself a brass finisher. Of four girls there, the second was written as M. E. (M. Elizabeth?), sister Anna was third, the fourth an unnamed infant, to be called Emma J. by her death, too soon after. Images of those two key handwritten census forms are archived online, as of this writing:
1880 SOURCE, CHICAGO, IL: Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYYY-9S3K?i=5
1860 SOURCE, CAMBRIDGE, MA: Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BSS-Q3H?i=91
Eldest sister Isabella would remarry, later, in Chicago, to an Alexander Mackie, of Scotland, to be unlucky and widowed again. Many things still deadly then are curable now. She would bury him also at Rose Hill, after her father was put there, but before her brother died. She then supported herself and son Rae A by working as a servant, until the son was old enough to begin working.
CUBA LIBRE--Freeing Cuba.
Some things repeat. Many more soldiers died in the Civil War from camp=spread diseases, than from battle wounds. This happened again, in August of 1898, the month typhoid fever came to Camp Cuba Libre, reviously called Camp Springfield, its Florida location gave it easy access to the Spanish-speaking island about 90 miles away (across the water, measured from Florida's tip).
What events caused his being sent there, contributing to his death? From a source on "Florida Historical Markers":
" On April 25, 1898, the United States declared war on Spain after the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor resulted in the deaths of 260 Americans. When President William McKinley called for 125,000 volunteers, camps were established to serve as rallying points for soldiers awaiting deployment. On May 22, soldiers of the 2nd Division, 7th Corp of the U.S. Volunteers (USV) arrived here under the command of Major General Fitzhugh Lee and Colonel William Jennings Bryan. Originally named Camp Springfield, it was later called Camp Cuba Libre (Free Cuba). Volunteer units from all over the country were stationed here. This exact site was the camp of the 1st North Carolina Volunteers....
"By August, Camp Cuba Libre had nearly 30,000 men, supplies were scarce, and typhoid was a constant threat. Army physician Major Walter Reed visited the camp to study the origins and transmission of typhoid...
"Most of the volunteers at the camp never saw combat. Some were deployed to Havana aboard the Roumanian on December 7, but the fighting ceased after the signing of the Treaty of Paris with Spain on December 10, 1898. The following day, the deployed volunteers became the first USVs to set foot in an independent Cuba."
SOURCE: Apps.FLHeritage.com/markers/ Search for Cuba Libre
HIS MOTHER. We know her death date from pension work, July 23, 1911, granted to her son's elderly survivor, due to his service. She would have needed to prove identity in order to qualify, given he was a war casualty and she was widowed. There should be a folder of key records, much richer than what's findable online, at the National Archives in DC, next to the Library of Congress. She qualified in Jan. 1899. An application number, not just a certificate number, maybe needed to request the best folders. The certificate number is here
Familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-C13X-L8?i=657
JB, 2021 Oct, revised 2022 (Oct. and Dec)
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