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[AlbertWoolson1956]

I am currently in the process of making a list of last civil vets that died after 1940. What i am doing is that i am going through thousands of grave on find a graves to pick out the vets and add them to my VC . There might thousands of them to find....
Can you guys help me find them and make your own virtual cemeteries and post them to this thread?

 

[major bill]

This sounds like a worthy project.

 

[Fairfield]

I doubt that you'll find thousands after 1940. According to "Marching Home," there were only six Union vets at the last GAR encampment in 1948:
Theodore Augustus Pentland https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21227580/theodore-augustus-penland
James Hard (d. 3/12/1953 in Dallas)
Robert Barrett
Charles Chappel https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8596702/charles-lysander-chappel
Joseph Clovese (d. 1951) USCT, an escaped slave
Albert Woolson
Certainly there may have been others who couldn't make that reunion. The bio on T. Penland's Find a Grave page states that he was one of 9 surviving vets at the time of his death in 1950.

CSA vet Thomas Evans Riddle turned 102 in 1948 in Dallas. Texas vet William Brady died 10/1943 in Dallas. CSA vet John B. Salling of VA turned 111 in Slant, VA (news article states that there he had been one of only 3 CSA vets left and 0 Union vets)

It might be worthwhile to contact SUV and whatever the Southern equivalent it. SUV maintains a database of known ACW Union soldiers and, while the date of death is given (when known), it isn't searchable by date.

 

[Story]

I am currently in the process of making a list of last civil vets that died after 1940. What i am doing is that i am going through thousands of grave on find a graves to pick out the vets and add them to my VC . There might thousands of them to find....
Can you guys help me find them and make your own virtual cemeteries and post them to this thread?

I'd suggest that you create a website with a roster and direct those motivated to assist you to check it, so that they're not duplicating your finds.

 

[AlbertWoolson1956]

I doubt that you'll find thousands after 1940. According to "Marching Home," there were only six Union vets at the last GAR encampment in 1948:
Theodore Augustus Pentland https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21227580/theodore-augustus-penland
James Hard (d. 3/12/1953 in Dallas)
Robert Barrett
Charles Chappel https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8596702/charles-lysander-chappel
Joseph Clovese (d. 1951) USCT, an escaped slave
Albert Woolson
Certainly there may have been others who couldn't make that reunion. The bio on T. Penland's Find a Grave page states that he was one of 9 surviving vets at the time of his death in 1950.

CSA vet Thomas Evans Riddle turned 102 in 1948 in Dallas. Texas vet William Brady died 10/1943 in Dallas. CSA vet John B. Salling of VA turned 111 in Slant, VA (news article states that there he had been one of only 3 CSA vets left and 0 Union vets)

It might be worthwhile to contact SUV and whatever the Southern equivalent it. SUV maintains a database of known ACW Union soldiers and, while the date of death is given (when known), it isn't searchable by date.

Thats because i got the impression that there thousands left, from the 1938 reunion
sources say that 2000 out of 10,000 vets atteneded

 

[AlbertWoolson1956]

https://lastcivilwarveterans.blogspot.com/2021/06/blog-is-dedicated-to-last-cw-vets.html

 

[AlbertWoolson1956]

Charles Matthews​	22 May 1848​	8 Oct 1950​	Confederate​
Robert Boyt​	27 Jan 1848​	22 Nov 1950​	Confederate​
Mike Thralls​	16 Jan 1843​	30 Nov 1950​	Union​
Ruffin Collie​	4 Feb 1844​	5 Jan 1951​	Confederate​
Robert Barrett​	5 Nov 1846​	12 Jan 1951​	Union​
Charles Bailey​	10 Feb !848​	29 Jan 1951​	Union​
Robert Wilson​	1849​	Feb 1951​	Confederate​
Daniel Clingaman​	25 Sep 1946​	18 Feb 1951​	Union​
James Moore​	3 Jan 1852​	26 Feb 1951​	Union​
Sam Bennett​	4 May 1850​	8 Mar 1951​	Confederate​
Hiram Gale​	8 Nov 1846​	15 Mar 1951​	Union​
James Thrasher​	22 Dec 1849​	16 Mar 1951​	Confederate​
John Hutchison​	14 Mar 1846​	18 Mar 1951​	Union​
James Smith​	8 Jul 1842​	22 Mar 1951​	Union​
Thomas Guinn​	27 Jan 1849​	7 Apr 1951​	Confederate​
John Chisum​	19 Feb 1848​	11 Jun 1951​	Confederate​
Joeseph Clovese​	30 Jan 1844​	13 Jul 1951​	Union​
Joseph Whitsett​	18 Sep 1847​	15 Aug 1951​	Confederate​
Lansing Wilcox​	3 Mar 1846​	29 Sep 1951​	Union​
Martin Peters​	5 Aug 1952​	28 Oct 1951​	Confederate​
George Keith​	17 Jan 1852​	7 Nov 1951​	Confederate​
Pleasant Crump​	23 Dec 1847​	31 Dec 1951​	Confederate​
Douglas Story​	24 Nov 1844​	22 Apr 1952​	Union​
Israel Broasword​	23 Dec 1846​	25 Jul 1952​	Union​
Arnold Murray​	10 Jun 1846​	25 Nov 1952​	Confederate​
William Magee​	19 Aug 1846​	23 Jan 1953​	Union​
James Hard​	25 Jul 1843​	12 Mar 1953​	Union​
William Kiney​	10 Feb 1846​	23 Jun 1953​	Confederate​
Frank Mayer​	28 May 1850​	12 Feb 1954​	Union​
Albert Woolson​	11 Feb 1850​	2 Aug 1956​	Union​