Civil War veteran in Company A of the 20th New York State Militia - also known as the 80th New York Volunteer Infantry. For more information on this family, see my Milroy web page.
The Sons of Union Veterans database at http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/index.php lists the grave location as "Lot 3, Section A, Grave 20", but a volunteer was unable to locate the grave, even with the assistance of a groundskeeper with a map.
The Sons of Union Veterans database lists the death date as December 17, 1881, but a record of headstones provided for deceased Union veterans (found on Ancestry.com) gives a death date of December 29, 1880. Since the S.U.V. death date is so far off, I think it is reasonable to question the accuracy of their information as to his burial plot location. I believe that the S.U.V. may have confused this Alexander Milroy with another of the same name (also a Union Civil War veteran) who died in Sacramento, California on January 17, 1881. They may also have confused the burial plot locations.
The government receipt for Alexander's headstone shows his death date as December 29, 1880 and gives burial information as Oak Hill (cemetery), San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. No plot location is listed on this receipt.
I will leave the photo request for this grave open in hopes that the cemetery may have Alexander listed in their records. It's likely that whoever submitted the information to the Sons of Union Veterans had their location information wrong. It's also possible that the grave marker may be gone by now. Alexander had no family in the area that I know of who would have looked after the grave and marker. (UPDATE - photos confirm that gravesite no longer has marker)
Many thanks and deep appreciation to the volunteers who spend so much time and effort providing the rest of us with photos of the final resting places of distant relatives.
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I finally found an obituary for Aleck:
The Rhinebeck Gazette
January 8, 1881
page 5
(first part blurry and difficult to make out)
The sad intelligence of the sudden death Alexander Milroy in Gilroy, California, on Tuesday night, December 28, reached us yesterday morning. Deceased was a native of Rhinebeck, and a son of Mr. Robert Milroy, of this village. He had spent many years in California, being engaged in hack driving in San Jose for some time. While there he contracted a cold which resulted in an attack of congestion of the lungs. Last year he came east to visit his parents and endeavor to remedy his failing health. As winter approached he found this climate too severe and returned to California, where he engaged in the saloon business with a partner in Gilroy. A few days before his death he consulted an eminent physician who pronounced his case -- augmented as it was by a second cold -- a serious one, and told him he might live a year or die in his (the physician's) office. He attended to his business up to Tuesday night, when he retired to rest, evidently feeling as well as usual. In the morning he was found dead in bed. Aleck, as he was familiarly known to his acquaintances here, had the rare faculty of speedily making friends wherever known. He was in his thirty-second year at the time of his death. His afflicted parents have the sympathy of a large circle of friends among our townsmen.
The Sons of Union Veterans database at http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/index.php lists the grave location as "Lot 3, Section A, Grave 20", but a volunteer was unable to locate the grave, even with the assistance of a groundskeeper with a map.
The Sons of Union Veterans database lists the death date as December 17, 1881, but a record of headstones provided for deceased Union veterans (found on Ancestry.com) gives a death date of December 29, 1880. Since the S.U.V. death date is so far off, I think it is reasonable to question the accuracy of their information as to his burial plot location. I believe that the S.U.V. may have confused this Alexander Milroy with another of the same name (also a Union Civil War veteran) who died in Sacramento, California on January 17, 1881. They may also have confused the burial plot locations.
The government receipt for Alexander's headstone shows his death date as December 29, 1880 and gives burial information as Oak Hill (cemetery), San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. No plot location is listed on this receipt.
I will leave the photo request for this grave open in hopes that the cemetery may have Alexander listed in their records. It's likely that whoever submitted the information to the Sons of Union Veterans had their location information wrong. It's also possible that the grave marker may be gone by now. Alexander had no family in the area that I know of who would have looked after the grave and marker. (UPDATE - photos confirm that gravesite no longer has marker)
Many thanks and deep appreciation to the volunteers who spend so much time and effort providing the rest of us with photos of the final resting places of distant relatives.
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I finally found an obituary for Aleck:
The Rhinebeck Gazette
January 8, 1881
page 5
(first part blurry and difficult to make out)
The sad intelligence of the sudden death Alexander Milroy in Gilroy, California, on Tuesday night, December 28, reached us yesterday morning. Deceased was a native of Rhinebeck, and a son of Mr. Robert Milroy, of this village. He had spent many years in California, being engaged in hack driving in San Jose for some time. While there he contracted a cold which resulted in an attack of congestion of the lungs. Last year he came east to visit his parents and endeavor to remedy his failing health. As winter approached he found this climate too severe and returned to California, where he engaged in the saloon business with a partner in Gilroy. A few days before his death he consulted an eminent physician who pronounced his case -- augmented as it was by a second cold -- a serious one, and told him he might live a year or die in his (the physician's) office. He attended to his business up to Tuesday night, when he retired to rest, evidently feeling as well as usual. In the morning he was found dead in bed. Aleck, as he was familiarly known to his acquaintances here, had the rare faculty of speedily making friends wherever known. He was in his thirty-second year at the time of his death. His afflicted parents have the sympathy of a large circle of friends among our townsmen.
Civil War veteran in Company A of the 20th New York State Militia - also known as the 80th New York Volunteer Infantry. For more information on this family, see my Milroy web page.
The Sons of Union Veterans database at http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/index.php lists the grave location as "Lot 3, Section A, Grave 20", but a volunteer was unable to locate the grave, even with the assistance of a groundskeeper with a map.
The Sons of Union Veterans database lists the death date as December 17, 1881, but a record of headstones provided for deceased Union veterans (found on Ancestry.com) gives a death date of December 29, 1880. Since the S.U.V. death date is so far off, I think it is reasonable to question the accuracy of their information as to his burial plot location. I believe that the S.U.V. may have confused this Alexander Milroy with another of the same name (also a Union Civil War veteran) who died in Sacramento, California on January 17, 1881. They may also have confused the burial plot locations.
The government receipt for Alexander's headstone shows his death date as December 29, 1880 and gives burial information as Oak Hill (cemetery), San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. No plot location is listed on this receipt.
I will leave the photo request for this grave open in hopes that the cemetery may have Alexander listed in their records. It's likely that whoever submitted the information to the Sons of Union Veterans had their location information wrong. It's also possible that the grave marker may be gone by now. Alexander had no family in the area that I know of who would have looked after the grave and marker. (UPDATE - photos confirm that gravesite no longer has marker)
Many thanks and deep appreciation to the volunteers who spend so much time and effort providing the rest of us with photos of the final resting places of distant relatives.
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I finally found an obituary for Aleck:
The Rhinebeck Gazette
January 8, 1881
page 5
(first part blurry and difficult to make out)
The sad intelligence of the sudden death Alexander Milroy in Gilroy, California, on Tuesday night, December 28, reached us yesterday morning. Deceased was a native of Rhinebeck, and a son of Mr. Robert Milroy, of this village. He had spent many years in California, being engaged in hack driving in San Jose for some time. While there he contracted a cold which resulted in an attack of congestion of the lungs. Last year he came east to visit his parents and endeavor to remedy his failing health. As winter approached he found this climate too severe and returned to California, where he engaged in the saloon business with a partner in Gilroy. A few days before his death he consulted an eminent physician who pronounced his case -- augmented as it was by a second cold -- a serious one, and told him he might live a year or die in his (the physician's) office. He attended to his business up to Tuesday night, when he retired to rest, evidently feeling as well as usual. In the morning he was found dead in bed. Aleck, as he was familiarly known to his acquaintances here, had the rare faculty of speedily making friends wherever known. He was in his thirty-second year at the time of his death. His afflicted parents have the sympathy of a large circle of friends among our townsmen.
The Sons of Union Veterans database at http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/index.php lists the grave location as "Lot 3, Section A, Grave 20", but a volunteer was unable to locate the grave, even with the assistance of a groundskeeper with a map.
The Sons of Union Veterans database lists the death date as December 17, 1881, but a record of headstones provided for deceased Union veterans (found on Ancestry.com) gives a death date of December 29, 1880. Since the S.U.V. death date is so far off, I think it is reasonable to question the accuracy of their information as to his burial plot location. I believe that the S.U.V. may have confused this Alexander Milroy with another of the same name (also a Union Civil War veteran) who died in Sacramento, California on January 17, 1881. They may also have confused the burial plot locations.
The government receipt for Alexander's headstone shows his death date as December 29, 1880 and gives burial information as Oak Hill (cemetery), San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. No plot location is listed on this receipt.
I will leave the photo request for this grave open in hopes that the cemetery may have Alexander listed in their records. It's likely that whoever submitted the information to the Sons of Union Veterans had their location information wrong. It's also possible that the grave marker may be gone by now. Alexander had no family in the area that I know of who would have looked after the grave and marker. (UPDATE - photos confirm that gravesite no longer has marker)
Many thanks and deep appreciation to the volunteers who spend so much time and effort providing the rest of us with photos of the final resting places of distant relatives.
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I finally found an obituary for Aleck:
The Rhinebeck Gazette
January 8, 1881
page 5
(first part blurry and difficult to make out)
The sad intelligence of the sudden death Alexander Milroy in Gilroy, California, on Tuesday night, December 28, reached us yesterday morning. Deceased was a native of Rhinebeck, and a son of Mr. Robert Milroy, of this village. He had spent many years in California, being engaged in hack driving in San Jose for some time. While there he contracted a cold which resulted in an attack of congestion of the lungs. Last year he came east to visit his parents and endeavor to remedy his failing health. As winter approached he found this climate too severe and returned to California, where he engaged in the saloon business with a partner in Gilroy. A few days before his death he consulted an eminent physician who pronounced his case -- augmented as it was by a second cold -- a serious one, and told him he might live a year or die in his (the physician's) office. He attended to his business up to Tuesday night, when he retired to rest, evidently feeling as well as usual. In the morning he was found dead in bed. Aleck, as he was familiarly known to his acquaintances here, had the rare faculty of speedily making friends wherever known. He was in his thirty-second year at the time of his death. His afflicted parents have the sympathy of a large circle of friends among our townsmen.
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