Sylvester Straw

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Per Military records of the Civil War there is a Sylvester Straw who was a resident of Lowell, Wisconsin who enlisted on 9 Sept 1861 as a Private in E Co 10th Inf Reg WI who died of disease in Nashville TN on 19 Nov 1862.
STRAW, SYLVESTER PRIVATE US ARMY VETERAN SERVICE DATES: Unknown DATE OF DEATH: 12/20/1862 DATE OF INTERMENT: 12/20/1882 BURIED AT: SECTION B SITE 6371 NASHVILLE NATIONAL CEMETERY <http://www.cem.va.gov/nchp/nashville.htm>1420 GALLATIN ROAD, SOUTH MADISON , TN 37115 (615) 736-2839 (615) 736-2846

Civil War Pension Index - Sylvester Straw; widow Elizabeth C. F(ranklin) S(argent). Straw guardian

Per Straw/Burns Family Bible:
Slyvester Straw December 1862 died Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee December 20 1862 between the hours of six and seven in the morning.

census 1850; Richmond, VT
Samuel age 56 farmer born NH
Mary 52 born NH
Cyrus G age 33; born NH
Sylvester age 23; laborer; born VT
Franklin S. 17 born VT
Meltham age 10 born VT
Hannah age 7 born VT
Ellen L. Smith age 22; born VT
Elvira now married and living outside HH age 20

1860 census for Lowell, Dodge Co., WI.
Sylvester, Elizabeth and daughter Ida (c1858)are living next door to parents, John & Ann Coon

Sylvester married Elizabeth Coon, daughter of John Coon and Ann, on 11 Sep 1859 in York, Dane County, Wisconsin. (Elizabeth Coon was born circa 1842 and died on 24 Sep 1865.)

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