[or-roots] Headstone Laural hill Eugene

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Fold3 has the pension index.

 

One is:

 

Publication Number: T289 

Publication Title: Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who
Served Between 1861 and 1900. 

Publisher: NARA 

National Archives Catalog ID: 2588825 

National Archives Catalog Title: Organization Index to Pension Files of
Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, compiled 1949 - 1949, documenting
the period 1861 - 1942 

Record Group: 15 

Short Description: NARA T289. Pension applications for service in the US
Army between 1861 and 1900, grouped according to the units in which the
veterans served. 

Collection Title: Civil War Pensions 

State: Wisconsin 

Arm Of Service: Infantry 

Regiment: 44 

Company: F 

Name: Rogers, Henry 

Rank: [Blank] 

Date: 28-AUG-1890 

State/Arm Of Service: [Null] 

Company/Regiment: [Null] 

Roll Number: 621

 

The date of filing is next to the "Invalid" Application No. 932645,
certificate number 673293

The Widow application (undated) is 813103, certificate 853374

 

The "died" date is blank. 

 

Somewhere there must be more information.  IF he died in California, it is
possible that he is buried there, and the marker in Oregon is a "cenotaph".


 

Maybe this will help? 

 

Following Congress' suggestion, members of the Board traveled to San
Francisco by train

in the fall of 1887. Once in California, they visited some of the more than
seventy sites

vying for the location of the Pacific Branch, including Monterey, Santa
Cruz, Santa

Barbara and San Bernardino. Initial balloting on the return trip showed that
Los Angeles,

Santa Barbara, Oakland, San Diego, and Monterey were the front-runners. The
Board

reconvened in Las Vegas to accept propositions from the various communities
and

accepted an offer from private citizens for a significant amount of cash and
acreage near

the booming town of Los Angeles and a burgeoning community at Santa Monica.
The

Pacific branch opened in 1888 and within the year held a hospital, barracks,
and mess hall

and a National Cemetery.52

 

52 Proceedings of the Board of Managers Of the National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers, April 19,

1887, p. 127; Proceedings of the Board of Managers of the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,

September 10, 1887, pp. 154-167.

 

There is a National Cemetery today at the San Diego Freeway (405) in
Westwood.  There is a Henry Rogers, but it is Henry F, who was with the 21st
Ill Inf. He died, however, 9 Apr 1903, which may be serving to confuse the
issue here.

 

There is also a National Cemetery in Roseburg, Oregon: "Roseburg National
Cemetery was established in 1897 to serve veterans residing at the Oregon
State Soldiers' home. The Oregon Soldiers' Home itself opened in 1893 to
"provide a home for honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines who
had served in any wars in which the United States was engaged, or who served
in the Indian Wars of Oregon, Washington or Idaho, provided they were or
might become citizens of Oregon."

 

However, there is no matching Henry Rogers in the National Cemeteries grave
locator. 

 

I think the local mortuaries would be the next step here, absent a death
certificate.  Nothing appears on the Oregon Archives, nor on the Washington
State Archives.

 

'Tis indeed a mystery!

 

Pat

In Tucson 

 

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