Civil War Records of Lewis J. Marsters

Service

Co. Regiment/Ship From To Residence Occupation Notes
E 6th MVI (9 months) Private; enl. Aug. 25, 1862; must. Aug. 31, 1862 must. out June 3, 1863 Boston farmer age 20

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): 1 Page (PDF*)
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): x

Pension

Co. Regiment Date Filed Type App. No. Cert. No. State Beneficiary/Remarks
E 6th MVI   Widow 465 966 305 851 Mass.

Ellen M. Marsters (Ella M. Morrison)

 

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  53 pages (PDF)

Grand Army of the Republic

x


Death

Date February 17, 1886
Place Montague, Mass.
Age

43 years, 6 months

occupation: livery stable
Cause

consumption 

("Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," AmericanAncestors.org)
Obituary  
Funeral  
Burial Springdale Cemetery, Montague, Mass. (source: National Graves Registration Database, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, http://www.suvcwdb.org.)
Survived by Ella M. Marsters

Additional Information

Born in Nova Scotia to Jonathan and Jane Marsters. In 1880, a papermaker, age 37, married Ellen M. Briggs, age 23, in Boston ("Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," AmericanAncestors.org)

Enlistment of "Lewis J. Masters" recorded in the 1862/63 Acton Annual Town Report, p. 19.

Ellen M., widow of Lewis J. Marsters, is recorded as a resident of Turners Falls in the 1890 veterans census ("1890 Veterans Schedules," Ancestry.com).

Name included on the Acton Memorial Library Soldiers' Tablet, "The Men of Acton Who Fought For The Union" as "Lewis J Masters."

 

 

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