Edwin William Mitchel Veteran

Birth: 1838
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Death: 1873 (aged 34–35)
Burial: Green-Wood Cemetery

Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot: Section 149, Lot 13045.
Memorial ID: 57254555 View Source

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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio Enlisted as a 2nd Lieutenant on 11 January 1862.
Commission in Company S, 4th Cavalry Regiment Ohio on 11 Jan 1862. Commission in Quartermaster's Dept Regiment U.S. Volunteers on 9 Jun 1862.
Promoted to Full Captain (Captain & Asst Quartermaster) on 9 Jun 1862. Resigned Quartermaster's Dept Regiment U.S. Volunteers on 6 Dec 1862. Discharged same date.

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Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel

1805–1862
Louisa Clark Mitchel

1805–1861

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Frederick Augustus Mitchel

1840–1918
Lieut Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel

1843–1875
Stella Mitchel

1850–1851
Stella Mitchel

1850–1851

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U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925
U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930
Washington, U.S., Marriage Records, 1854-2013
U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989

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Green-Wood Cemetery
Section 149, Lot 13045.
[NOTE: Some burials here are not memorialized by any currently visible or legible stone or inscription. A list of lot residents, with burial dates, appears after the inscriptions.]
Ten stones can be seen on this lot, but only 8 bear any legible text, two having fallen and eroded.
INSCRIPTIONS
---Invisible behind the stone at left rear is one that has fallen and is illegible. Behind the stone at right rear is another, the only legible being 3 initials across the top of the stone: "V.M.H" and the name "Hook" barely legible on the front. This is Virginia Hook, interred here Feb 6 1907. Two other Hook burials here may be memorialized by the illegible text on the front of this stone: William and Stella Louise Hook, buried 4/20/1894 and 1/18/1892, respectively. Virginia Hook was the daughter of Ormsby and Louisa Mitchel.
---Back row of 4 stones, left to right:
1--Thomas Sterne Trask
Died February 26th 1851
Aged 22 years
2—Father
Ormsby McKnight Mitchel
Born in Kentucky July 20th 1809.
Died at Beaufort S.C. October 30th 1862.
Love God supremely and each other most deeply are your father's dying words.
3—Mother
Louisa Mitchel.
Born November 29th 1805
Died August 20th 1861.
4—Louise and Stella
---Three stones in middle distance, left to right:
1—Fallen, illegible
2—Frederick A. Mitchel 1840-1918
His Wife Maria Goold Mitchel 1863-1957
3—Edwin W Mitchel
Capt 4 Ohio Cav
US Vol Qtr Mr
Civil War 1838 1873
---Flat stone in front:
MITCHEL
Edwin Kent
1901-1972
[NOTE: Burial list from online cemetery records, with burial dates, which may represent reburials after removal from previous graves. This list may be incomplete. Contact cemetery for complete information about this lot at http://www.green-wood.com:
HOOK: Stella Louise, 1/18/1892; Virginia M, 2/6/1907; and William B, 4/20/1894.
MITCHEL: Edwin W, 12/7/1870; Edwin W, 12/13/1873; Edwin Kent, 5/1/1972; Frederick Augustus, 8/21/1918; Frederick G, 8/24/1900; Ormsby M, 1/16/1863; Harriet Dewitt, 11/14/1874; Louisa, 8/27/1861; Louisa, 9/14/1861; Louise, 5/3/1881; and Maria G, 7/23/1958. Stella does not appear in the cemetery's online database.
TRASK: Alonzo, 9/14/1861 (no legible stone); Thomas Sterne Trask does not appear in the cemetery's online database, but he appears in the 1850 census with the Mitchel family in Cincinnati, OH.]

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Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel

Louisa Clark Mitchel

Frederick Augustus Mitchel

Lieut Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel

Stella Mitchel

Stella Mitchel