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Dr Lewis Cass Cummings

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Dr Lewis Cass Cummings Veteran

Birth
Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
8 Feb 1898 (aged 69)
Browns Valley, Traverse County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Browns Valley, Traverse County, Minnesota, USA GPS-Latitude: 45.588506, Longitude: -96.824139
Plot
Lot 106 Block 3
Memorial ID
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Civil War Veteran

Surgeon, 125th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Mustered in: September 23, 1862
Mustered out: May 18, 1863
Assistant Surgeon 58th PA Vol Inf
Mustered in: October 25, 1861
Promoted: To Surgeon of 125th
Acting Assistant Surgeon in Regular Army

Surname is sometimes recorded as Cummins. Civil War records show each spelling. Pension cards use Cummins. Grave registration in Minnesota uses Cummings spelling.

At the time of the 1860 US Census he was single and resided at East Marlborough in Chester County, PA. He married Clementine E Braddock on 9-11-1867 at the First Presbyterian Church in Kensington, Philadelphia, PA. Additional residences include Lake Crystal, Garden City Township, Blue Earth County MN (1878) and Folsom, Traverse County MN (1885).

Date of birth, place of birth, date of death, place of death and place of burial from:
State of Minnesota
Adjutant General's Office
Graves Registration Section

This record also indicates he came to Browns Valley in 1883 and gives his wife's name as Clemina. Cemetery is named as "Steers."

His pension filing on July 21 1890 registers him as an invalid.
Civil War Veteran

Surgeon, 125th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Mustered in: September 23, 1862
Mustered out: May 18, 1863
Assistant Surgeon 58th PA Vol Inf
Mustered in: October 25, 1861
Promoted: To Surgeon of 125th
Acting Assistant Surgeon in Regular Army

Surname is sometimes recorded as Cummins. Civil War records show each spelling. Pension cards use Cummins. Grave registration in Minnesota uses Cummings spelling.

At the time of the 1860 US Census he was single and resided at East Marlborough in Chester County, PA. He married Clementine E Braddock on 9-11-1867 at the First Presbyterian Church in Kensington, Philadelphia, PA. Additional residences include Lake Crystal, Garden City Township, Blue Earth County MN (1878) and Folsom, Traverse County MN (1885).

Date of birth, place of birth, date of death, place of death and place of burial from:
State of Minnesota
Adjutant General's Office
Graves Registration Section

This record also indicates he came to Browns Valley in 1883 and gives his wife's name as Clemina. Cemetery is named as "Steers."

His pension filing on July 21 1890 registers him as an invalid.


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