Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day 2010

Corporal Wilson L Starkey
15th Illinois Regiment Volunteers
Born about 1835
in New York
Died 27 July 1862
(according to the official death certificate,
however some reports put his on 26 July 1862)
Died on the U.S.N. Hospital ship Red Rover
on the Mississippi River.
Buried at Spanish Moss Bend, on the Mississippi River
This is my 3great-grandfather's younger brother.

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