WILLIAMS, CHARLES
(Alias James W. Smith)
Age 70
b. 1845 - Utica, Oneida
County, New York
d. 1/9/1908 - Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, Montana
CO. D. 22nd PENNSYLVANIA
CAVALRY
Upper
Hill Cemetery
Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, Montana
Find-a-Grave: Charles Williams
Charles Williams in the
U.S.,
Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles,
1861-1865
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Name:
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Charles Williams
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Enlistment Age:
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18
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Birth Date:
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1845
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Birth Place:
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Utica, New York
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Enlistment Date:
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16 Jul 1863
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Enlistment Place:
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Williamsburg, Pennsylvania
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Enlistment Rank:
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Private
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Muster Date:
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16 Jul 1863
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Muster Place:
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Pennsylvania
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Muster Company:
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D
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Muster Regiment:
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22nd Cavalry
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Muster Regiment Type:
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Cavalry
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Muster Information:
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Enlisted
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Muster Out Date:
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5 Feb 1864
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Muster Out Place:
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Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
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Muster Out Information:
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Mustered Out
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Side of War:
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Union
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Survived War?:
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Yes
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Death Date:
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9 Jan 1908
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Death/Burial Place:
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Anaconda, Montana
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Cemetery:
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Upper Hill Cemetery
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Additional Notes:
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Used alias: "James W. Smith"
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Title:
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History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865;
Research by Charles Beal
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DEATHS
AND FUNERALS
OF A DAY IN ANACONDA
CHARLES
WILLIAMS SUCCUMBS
TO PNEUMONIA AT ST. ANN’S
Charles
Williams, aged 70 years, died yesterday at St. Ann’s hospital
after an illness of several months.
The immediate cause of death was pneumonia. But
little is known of the early history of Mr. Williams, except
that he was a soldier in the civil war and had a splendid war
record. He was a member of Lincoln post, G. A. R., of Butte and
his remains will be cared for by the veterans.
The body was removed from the hospital to the Tuttle
undertaking establishment, where it will remain until the
funeral arrangements are made.
About the only relative that is known is a son who is
said to reside at Spokane and with whom the undertaker is
endeavoring to get in communication.
Several telegrams were sent yesterday, but so far no
reply has been received.
If no word is received from the son or from some other
relative the body will be taken charge of by the local veterans
and given burial in the cemetery here.
The Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana
1/10/1908 |
The funeral of the
late Charles Williams was held from the undertaking parlors of
C. A. Tuttle this afternoon. The burial was conducted by
the local G. A. R. post, the old veterans acting as
pallbearers. The pallbearers were H. F. Ehret, Sparrow,
Sweeney, English, King and Canovan.
The
Butte Miner
Butte, Montana
1/16/1908 |
A GALLANT
VETERAN
WAS WILLIAMS
BUT HE DIED TRYING TO GET
HIS VETERAN’S PENSION
HIS SON IS NOW IN THE CITY
Further Details of Life of
Anaconda
Civil War Hero
SPECIAL TO THE INTER
MOUNTAIN
Anaconda,
Jan. 16.—Charles Williams, a son of the late Charles Williams, who
was buried yesterday, arrived in the city last evening from Spokane,
just four hours too late for the funeral, which was conducted by the
members of the Grand Army of the Republic of this city.
The young man received a telegram notifying him of his
father’s death on his return from a run on the Northern Pacific
railroad, where he is employed as a fireman, and the message was so
long in reaching him that he thought that it was no use to wire the
post in this city of the fact that he was coming, though he set out
for Anaconda as quickly as he could make arrangements to do so.
He gives further particulars as to the life of his father, who
was born at Utica, N.Y. He
ran away from home at the age of 18 years, to enlist in the army, and
was enrolled at Williamsburg, Pa., in Company D, of the Twenty-second
Pennsylvania cavalry. Fearing
that his parents would take him out of the army, he enlisted under the
name of James W. Smith, and it was by that name that he was discharged
at Harrisburg in 1864.
This was the reason that it became hard for him, when old age
and helplessness approached, to get the customary aid from the
government. For twelve
years he had been endeavoring to locate his captain and other comrades
of the war and had only succeeded in doing so quite recently, and his
case is still pending in the red tape files of the pension department.
Williams was marshal at Sheridan, Wyo., for twenty-two years,
and afterward was a deputy sheriff at Lewiston, Idaho.
His family consists of three children, Beatrice, a daughter
living at Kingston, Idaho, and the two sons, Charles and Ben, both of
whom live in Spokane.
The
Butte Daily Post
Butte, Montana
1/16/1908
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