He was born in 1810 and died while a soldier in St. Augustine, FL.
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Benjamin Poole was born in 1810 according to U.S. Census records. There is a very nice obituary written about him by a classmate from West Point Military Academy from which Benjamin graduated in 1830.
Three newspaper articles about his death from "the fever" that was "very severe" in St. Augustine can be found in Genealogybank.com: (1) Nov. 29, 1839, "News" (St. Augustine, Florida), page 3; (2) Nov. 22, 1839, "The New York Herald" (New York, New York), page 2; and Nov. 23, 1839, "National Gazette" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Vol. XIX, Issue 2863, Page 1.
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Benjamin Poole was born in 1810 according to U.S. Census records. There is a very nice obituary written about him by a classmate from West Point Military Academy from which Benjamin graduated in 1830.
Three newspaper articles about his death from "the fever" that was "very severe" in St. Augustine can be found in Genealogybank.com: (1) Nov. 29, 1839, "News" (St. Augustine, Florida), page 3; (2) Nov. 22, 1839, "The New York Herald" (New York, New York), page 2; and Nov. 23, 1839, "National Gazette" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Vol. XIX, Issue 2863, Page 1.
He was born in 1810 and died while a soldier in St. Augustine, FL.
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Benjamin Poole was born in 1810 according to U.S. Census records. There is a very nice obituary written about him by a classmate from West Point Military Academy from which Benjamin graduated in 1830.
Three newspaper articles about his death from "the fever" that was "very severe" in St. Augustine can be found in Genealogybank.com: (1) Nov. 29, 1839, "News" (St. Augustine, Florida), page 3; (2) Nov. 22, 1839, "The New York Herald" (New York, New York), page 2; and Nov. 23, 1839, "National Gazette" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Vol. XIX, Issue 2863, Page 1.
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Benjamin Poole was born in 1810 according to U.S. Census records. There is a very nice obituary written about him by a classmate from West Point Military Academy from which Benjamin graduated in 1830.
Three newspaper articles about his death from "the fever" that was "very severe" in St. Augustine can be found in Genealogybank.com: (1) Nov. 29, 1839, "News" (St. Augustine, Florida), page 3; (2) Nov. 22, 1839, "The New York Herald" (New York, New York), page 2; and Nov. 23, 1839, "National Gazette" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Vol. XIX, Issue 2863, Page 1.
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