Showing posts with label 1846. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 27, 2018

Private Franklin Green of Company D, Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry

Private Franklin Green (1846 - )



Enlisted from Harrisburg, PA on 16 March 1863. He was 17 years old, single and working as a laborer.

Mustered out 20 August 1865.

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Private Caleb J. Boss of Company D, Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry

Private Caleb J. Boss (1846 - )



Enlisted from Boston, MA on 18 February 1865. He was 19 years old and working as a seaman.

Discharged June 1865 from Georgetown, SC.

Sunday, January 7, 2018

Private Chester Bromily Hoke of Company G, Massachusetts 54th Voluntary Infantry

Private Chester Bromily Hoke of New York (20 April 1847 - 26 March 1913)

Army records refer to him as "Bromily Hoke."

Enlisted from Montgomery County, NY on 14 April 1863. He was 18 years old, single and working as a farmer.

Discharged 16 June 1865 in Charleston, SC.
After his service, Private Hoke worked as a laborer at cook Maria Miller's household and as a porter at Hotel Mohawk in Canajoharie, NY

1910 Federal Census: listed as "Mulatto"

His grave is at Canajoharie Falls Cemetery in Canajoharie, NY.


Chester Bromley Hoke's grave at Canajoharie Falls Cemetery
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177212269/chester-bromley-hoke

Family

1 Daughter, mother unknown: Isabelle Hoke Dukins

Married Elizabeth Ann Phillips, 1893

3 more children: Chester, Phillip, Robert

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