I apologize for not getting these slides online during the actual event but things we’re a bit harried on our end and I simply ran out of time. If you click the weird looking square in the bottom right of the slides, it opens into a bigger screen and you can click on the left and right hand side of the screen to go back and forth. You’ll see an arrow for navigation.
I had a video intro but it made it too large to post but I’ll try to sum up what I said in the intro. Some of these soldiers, I have been blessed to have LOADS of information on and then I have a few that I have scant information on. I actually have 2 soldiers in our burial journals that I cannot find records for at all because their names are so generic which makes narrowing their service near impossible without corroborating information; we continue our search for them, though. I have one in the cemetery, William Henry Quimby, you’ll see here that has a military stone, but I cannot verify who he is. No military records have been found for him so far. We’ve only found him on one census and we’re not even certain that it’s him. So we’re still working on a few… but here are the 88 we honored this past weekend.
While I would love to have provided a very large and robust biography for each of them, it’s just not possible in the amount of time I had to do this. Maybe that will be a project for the next big celebration and for the next generation who takes up this mantle to built upon the records I’ve compiled and expand their histories. Until then… if there is any one particular soldier you’d like more information on, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at wvillecemetery@gmail.com and we can see what we can provide.
The Washingtonville Cemetery 