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Cyrus Trafton Wardwell

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Cyrus Trafton Wardwell

Birth
Otisfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Death
30 May 1938 (aged 97)
Otisfield, Oxford County, Maine, USA
Burial
Oxford, Oxford County, Maine, USA Add to Map
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Married (1) Sarah Hannah Rowe on October 1864. She died in 1918. Married (2) Ada J. Harlow on December 1, 1925 at Lewiston, Maine.

No children

Enlisted as a Private on 18 August 1862 at the age of 21
Enlisted in Company K, 17th Infantry Regiment Maine on 18 August 1862
Wounded on 16 June 1864
Transfered to Regiment RC on 15 July 1864
New York Times of 14 August 1861 lists him among prisoner's being held in Richmond, serving in his brother's (Capt. Samuel Wardwell] company. Filed for Civil War Pension as "invalid".
At one time the oldest Civil War veteran in Lewiston and the oldest man in Androscoggin.

On 16 December 1927, he was part of a contingent of Maine Civil War Veterans who went to the Capitol in Washington to return flags captured during the war to the states of Virginia, North Carolina and Texas.
Married (1) Sarah Hannah Rowe on October 1864. She died in 1918. Married (2) Ada J. Harlow on December 1, 1925 at Lewiston, Maine.

No children

Enlisted as a Private on 18 August 1862 at the age of 21
Enlisted in Company K, 17th Infantry Regiment Maine on 18 August 1862
Wounded on 16 June 1864
Transfered to Regiment RC on 15 July 1864
New York Times of 14 August 1861 lists him among prisoner's being held in Richmond, serving in his brother's (Capt. Samuel Wardwell] company. Filed for Civil War Pension as "invalid".
At one time the oldest Civil War veteran in Lewiston and the oldest man in Androscoggin.

On 16 December 1927, he was part of a contingent of Maine Civil War Veterans who went to the Capitol in Washington to return flags captured during the war to the states of Virginia, North Carolina and Texas.


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