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Roswell H. Slayton

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Roswell H. Slayton

Birth
Death
25 Jan 1865
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Wayland, Steuben County, New York, USA Add to Map
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"SLAYTON, ROSWELL H. -- Age 44 years. Enlisted, September 19, 1864, at Cohocton, to serve one year; mustered in as private, Co. C, September 28, 1864; died of chronic diarrhoea, January 25, 1865, at First Division, Twentieth Corps, Hospital, Savannah, Ga.; also borne as Sleighton."

-- from the Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the Year 1904. Registers of the 140th through 146th Regiments of Infantry. Volume 6, p. 334 (141st Infantry)
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There is a Roswell Slayton (1776-1869) buried nearby in Mapleview Cemetery, Cohocton, Steuben County, NY. Possibly his father?
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"SLAYTON, ROSWELL H. -- Age 44 years. Enlisted, September 19, 1864, at Cohocton, to serve one year; mustered in as private, Co. C, September 28, 1864; died of chronic diarrhoea, January 25, 1865, at First Division, Twentieth Corps, Hospital, Savannah, Ga.; also borne as Sleighton."

-- from the Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the Year 1904. Registers of the 140th through 146th Regiments of Infantry. Volume 6, p. 334 (141st Infantry)
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There is a Roswell Slayton (1776-1869) buried nearby in Mapleview Cemetery, Cohocton, Steuben County, NY. Possibly his father?
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Inscription

Died at Savannah, Jan. 25, 1865
in the 53d year of his age;
member of Co. C, 141 Reg't, N.Y.S.V.



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