Charles P. Huntington, Jr. was purportedly buried with his second wife in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee (as per contemporary documents such as the Wisconsin Death Index and the GAR obituary both cited below) - but the cemetery long denied they were ever there and many searches of both the published plot and other Huntington plots in the same cemetery revealed nothing until 4 Dec 2019, when researcher Margaret Berres cracked the mystery:
"Huntington WAS buried in that lot in Section 34 when he died in 1890. Notations of his burial were removed from the lot sheet and interment records when, on August 15, 1904, he was removed and cremated. Cremation records indicate the cremains were 'shipped to Pewaukee.'
His second wife, Frances Maria Huntington, was never buried at Forest Home. However, she was cremated there in 1906 and the records state her cremains were sent to Pewaukee for burial. I don't know if Huntington's cremains were ever buried in Pewaukee. What I do know is that he was interred in Forest Home in Milwaukee for 14 years then removed."(1)
C. P. Huntington's father-in-law by his 2nd wife, Daniel Hewitt Davis (1813-1879) is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Pewaukee, Waukesha Co., Wisconsin (Find A Grave Memorial 91348641) and one can only assume his cremains and that of his 2nd wife, Frances Maria [Davis] Huntington (1843-1906) are also in the same plot.
"Charles P. Huntington, a native of Connecticut, enlisted as Private in Co. F., 24th Wis. Vol. Infantry, August 6th, 1862, afterwards Major of the 1st U.S. Engineers. Mustered out of service October 24th, 1865. Was a charter member of this Post, being number two on the roll. He took great interest in the order and his remains were escorted to their resting place by the Post. He died September 9th [sic], 1890, and is buried on Lot 8, Block 10, Sec. 34, Forest Home Cemetery."(2)
Chas. P. Huntington
Wisconsin, Death Records
Name: Chas. P. Huntington
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 1890
Event Place: Milw., Wisconsin
Residence Place: Wis.
Gender: Male
Age: 57
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: Dept. Collect of Int. Rev
Birth Date: 13 Dec 1832
Birth Year (Estimated): 1833
Birthplace: Conn.
Cemetery: Forest Home
Father's Name: Chas. Huntington
Mother's Name: Nancy Huntington
Spouse's Name: Fanny Huntington(3)
Ancestral ID's:
1) 1.2.5.4.2.4.5.2 Huntington Family Association (4)
Sources:
1) Berres, Margaret; message to Philip Hathaway Koether, AIA - 2nd great grand nephew of Charles P. Huntington, Jr., 4 Dec 2019.
2) GAR Wolcott Post, "History and Roster, E.B. Wolcott Post, No. 1;" Department of Wisconsin, Grand Army of the Republic, Press of Roberts & Gillett, Milwaukee; June 1st, 1892, p. 39.
3) "Wisconsin Vital Records Death Index; " Milwaukee County, Vol. 12, p. 0635.
4) Huntington Family Association, "The Huntington Family in America - A Genealogical Memoir of the Known Descendants of Simon Huntington From 1633 to 1915 Including Those Who Have Retained the Family Name, and Many Bearing Other Surnames," Hartford, Connecticut, 1915; p. 328.
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"Huntington WAS buried in that lot in Section 34 when he died in 1890. Notations of his burial were removed from the lot sheet and interment records when, on August 15, 1904, he was removed and cremated. Cremation records indicate the cremains were 'shipped to Pewaukee.'
His second wife, Frances Maria Huntington, was never buried at Forest Home. However, she was cremated there in 1906 and the records state her cremains were sent to Pewaukee for burial. I don't know if Huntington's cremains were ever buried in Pewaukee. What I do know is that he was interred in Forest Home in Milwaukee for 14 years then removed."(1)
C. P. Huntington's father-in-law by his 2nd wife, Daniel Hewitt Davis (1813-1879) is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Pewaukee, Waukesha Co., Wisconsin (Find A Grave Memorial 91348641) and one can only assume his cremains and that of his 2nd wife, Frances Maria [Davis] Huntington (1843-1906) are also in the same plot.
"Charles P. Huntington, a native of Connecticut, enlisted as Private in Co. F., 24th Wis. Vol. Infantry, August 6th, 1862, afterwards Major of the 1st U.S. Engineers. Mustered out of service October 24th, 1865. Was a charter member of this Post, being number two on the roll. He took great interest in the order and his remains were escorted to their resting place by the Post. He died September 9th [sic], 1890, and is buried on Lot 8, Block 10, Sec. 34, Forest Home Cemetery."(2)
Chas. P. Huntington
Wisconsin, Death Records
Name: Chas. P. Huntington
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 1890
Event Place: Milw., Wisconsin
Residence Place: Wis.
Gender: Male
Age: 57
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: Dept. Collect of Int. Rev
Birth Date: 13 Dec 1832
Birth Year (Estimated): 1833
Birthplace: Conn.
Cemetery: Forest Home
Father's Name: Chas. Huntington
Mother's Name: Nancy Huntington
Spouse's Name: Fanny Huntington(3)
Ancestral ID's:
1) 1.2.5.4.2.4.5.2 Huntington Family Association (4)
Sources:
1) Berres, Margaret; message to Philip Hathaway Koether, AIA - 2nd great grand nephew of Charles P. Huntington, Jr., 4 Dec 2019.
2) GAR Wolcott Post, "History and Roster, E.B. Wolcott Post, No. 1;" Department of Wisconsin, Grand Army of the Republic, Press of Roberts & Gillett, Milwaukee; June 1st, 1892, p. 39.
3) "Wisconsin Vital Records Death Index; " Milwaukee County, Vol. 12, p. 0635.
4) Huntington Family Association, "The Huntington Family in America - A Genealogical Memoir of the Known Descendants of Simon Huntington From 1633 to 1915 Including Those Who Have Retained the Family Name, and Many Bearing Other Surnames," Hartford, Connecticut, 1915; p. 328.
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Charles P. Huntington, Jr. was purportedly buried with his second wife in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee (as per contemporary documents such as the Wisconsin Death Index and the GAR obituary both cited below) - but the cemetery long denied they were ever there and many searches of both the published plot and other Huntington plots in the same cemetery revealed nothing until 4 Dec 2019, when researcher Margaret Berres cracked the mystery:
"Huntington WAS buried in that lot in Section 34 when he died in 1890. Notations of his burial were removed from the lot sheet and interment records when, on August 15, 1904, he was removed and cremated. Cremation records indicate the cremains were 'shipped to Pewaukee.'
His second wife, Frances Maria Huntington, was never buried at Forest Home. However, she was cremated there in 1906 and the records state her cremains were sent to Pewaukee for burial. I don't know if Huntington's cremains were ever buried in Pewaukee. What I do know is that he was interred in Forest Home in Milwaukee for 14 years then removed."(1)
C. P. Huntington's father-in-law by his 2nd wife, Daniel Hewitt Davis (1813-1879) is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Pewaukee, Waukesha Co., Wisconsin (Find A Grave Memorial 91348641) and one can only assume his cremains and that of his 2nd wife, Frances Maria [Davis] Huntington (1843-1906) are also in the same plot.
"Charles P. Huntington, a native of Connecticut, enlisted as Private in Co. F., 24th Wis. Vol. Infantry, August 6th, 1862, afterwards Major of the 1st U.S. Engineers. Mustered out of service October 24th, 1865. Was a charter member of this Post, being number two on the roll. He took great interest in the order and his remains were escorted to their resting place by the Post. He died September 9th [sic], 1890, and is buried on Lot 8, Block 10, Sec. 34, Forest Home Cemetery."(2)
Chas. P. Huntington
Wisconsin, Death Records
Name: Chas. P. Huntington
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 1890
Event Place: Milw., Wisconsin
Residence Place: Wis.
Gender: Male
Age: 57
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: Dept. Collect of Int. Rev
Birth Date: 13 Dec 1832
Birth Year (Estimated): 1833
Birthplace: Conn.
Cemetery: Forest Home
Father's Name: Chas. Huntington
Mother's Name: Nancy Huntington
Spouse's Name: Fanny Huntington(3)
Ancestral ID's:
1) 1.2.5.4.2.4.5.2 Huntington Family Association (4)
Sources:
1) Berres, Margaret; message to Philip Hathaway Koether, AIA - 2nd great grand nephew of Charles P. Huntington, Jr., 4 Dec 2019.
2) GAR Wolcott Post, "History and Roster, E.B. Wolcott Post, No. 1;" Department of Wisconsin, Grand Army of the Republic, Press of Roberts & Gillett, Milwaukee; June 1st, 1892, p. 39.
3) "Wisconsin Vital Records Death Index; " Milwaukee County, Vol. 12, p. 0635.
4) Huntington Family Association, "The Huntington Family in America - A Genealogical Memoir of the Known Descendants of Simon Huntington From 1633 to 1915 Including Those Who Have Retained the Family Name, and Many Bearing Other Surnames," Hartford, Connecticut, 1915; p. 328.
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"Huntington WAS buried in that lot in Section 34 when he died in 1890. Notations of his burial were removed from the lot sheet and interment records when, on August 15, 1904, he was removed and cremated. Cremation records indicate the cremains were 'shipped to Pewaukee.'
His second wife, Frances Maria Huntington, was never buried at Forest Home. However, she was cremated there in 1906 and the records state her cremains were sent to Pewaukee for burial. I don't know if Huntington's cremains were ever buried in Pewaukee. What I do know is that he was interred in Forest Home in Milwaukee for 14 years then removed."(1)
C. P. Huntington's father-in-law by his 2nd wife, Daniel Hewitt Davis (1813-1879) is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Pewaukee, Waukesha Co., Wisconsin (Find A Grave Memorial 91348641) and one can only assume his cremains and that of his 2nd wife, Frances Maria [Davis] Huntington (1843-1906) are also in the same plot.
"Charles P. Huntington, a native of Connecticut, enlisted as Private in Co. F., 24th Wis. Vol. Infantry, August 6th, 1862, afterwards Major of the 1st U.S. Engineers. Mustered out of service October 24th, 1865. Was a charter member of this Post, being number two on the roll. He took great interest in the order and his remains were escorted to their resting place by the Post. He died September 9th [sic], 1890, and is buried on Lot 8, Block 10, Sec. 34, Forest Home Cemetery."(2)
Chas. P. Huntington
Wisconsin, Death Records
Name: Chas. P. Huntington
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 1890
Event Place: Milw., Wisconsin
Residence Place: Wis.
Gender: Male
Age: 57
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: Dept. Collect of Int. Rev
Birth Date: 13 Dec 1832
Birth Year (Estimated): 1833
Birthplace: Conn.
Cemetery: Forest Home
Father's Name: Chas. Huntington
Mother's Name: Nancy Huntington
Spouse's Name: Fanny Huntington(3)
Ancestral ID's:
1) 1.2.5.4.2.4.5.2 Huntington Family Association (4)
Sources:
1) Berres, Margaret; message to Philip Hathaway Koether, AIA - 2nd great grand nephew of Charles P. Huntington, Jr., 4 Dec 2019.
2) GAR Wolcott Post, "History and Roster, E.B. Wolcott Post, No. 1;" Department of Wisconsin, Grand Army of the Republic, Press of Roberts & Gillett, Milwaukee; June 1st, 1892, p. 39.
3) "Wisconsin Vital Records Death Index; " Milwaukee County, Vol. 12, p. 0635.
4) Huntington Family Association, "The Huntington Family in America - A Genealogical Memoir of the Known Descendants of Simon Huntington From 1633 to 1915 Including Those Who Have Retained the Family Name, and Many Bearing Other Surnames," Hartford, Connecticut, 1915; p. 328.
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Gravesite Details
The Keyes family lot had no stones until 2019 until that for brother-in-law Dwight Whitmore Keyes was added.
Family Members
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