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Thomas Graves

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Thomas Graves Veteran

Birth
Covington, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
6 Feb 1904 (aged 83)
Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Millerton, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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MILITARY: "Thomas Graves, served in 187th Pennsylvania V.I. and was wounded at Mine Explosion at Petersburg, Va., July 20, 1864." (See Sources: GAR Post No. 48.)

BIO: "Thomas Graves was born near Covington, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in 1820, a son of Josiah and Polly Graves, pioneers of that locality. He there grew to manhood, and for a number of years afterwards conducted a hotel in Covington, keeping at different times the Covington and Mansion Hotels. He married Samantha Howe, who bore him the following children: Esther M., wife of Edward Doane, of Mansfield; Harry T., editor of the Millerton 'Advocate'; Frederick L., editor of the Tioga 'Argus'; Fannie, wife of W. J. Keeney, of Southport, New York, and Walter A., a resident of Seely Creek, in the same state. Mr. Graves is still living, at the ripe age of seventy-seven years." (Cf. 1897 Tioga County History: Biographical Sketches (Chap. 63) in "Sources.")

MILITARY: "Thomas Graves, served in 187th Pennsylvania V.I. and was wounded at Mine Explosion at Petersburg, Va., July 20, 1864." (See Sources: GAR Post No. 48.)

BIO: "Thomas Graves was born near Covington, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in 1820, a son of Josiah and Polly Graves, pioneers of that locality. He there grew to manhood, and for a number of years afterwards conducted a hotel in Covington, keeping at different times the Covington and Mansion Hotels. He married Samantha Howe, who bore him the following children: Esther M., wife of Edward Doane, of Mansfield; Harry T., editor of the Millerton 'Advocate'; Frederick L., editor of the Tioga 'Argus'; Fannie, wife of W. J. Keeney, of Southport, New York, and Walter A., a resident of Seely Creek, in the same state. Mr. Graves is still living, at the ripe age of seventy-seven years." (Cf. 1897 Tioga County History: Biographical Sketches (Chap. 63) in "Sources.")


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THOMAS
GRAVES
DIED
FEB. 6, 1904
Aged 83 Years
4 Mo's & 28 Da's
Co. K 187 Regt. P. V.
At Rest



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