Martin Rathbone
(1787-1864)
Betsey Brown
(1789-1826)
Henry W. Rathbone
(1815-1863)
Emily C. Benjamin
(1817-1880)
Benjamin Hawley Rathbone
(1839-1864)

 

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Benjamin Hawley Rathbone 1

  • Born: 1839, Compo, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States 1 2
  • Died: 15 Nov 1864, Andersonville, Sumter, Georgia, United States at age 25 1 3
  • Buried: 15 Nov 1864, Andersonville, Sumter, Georgia, United States 4

   Another name for Benjamin was Henry B. Rathbun.5

  General Notes:

Originally interment: 15 Nov 1864 at Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia, Grave location: section H, Grave 12031. Remains disinterred 17 Sep 1880. (U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms (DA Form 2122), 1928-1962)

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence, 2 Dec 1850, Montville, New London, Connecticut, United States. 6

• Military Service: Civil War: Private, Comany A, 2nd Connecticut Artillery, Union Army, To 15 Nov 1864. 1 3 7 Enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, was captured 1 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, Virginia and died 15 November 1864, in Andersonville Prison. Cause of Death: SCORBUTUS

• Alt. Burial, After 17 Sep 1880, Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States.


Sources

1 Frank H. Rathbun, Editor and Publisher, The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian (Name: Published quarterly by the Rathbun Family Association;), Volume 13, Number 1, Page 10, January 1993. Source Medium: Magazine

2 1850 U.S. census, New London, Connecticut, population schedule, Montville, p. 222, dwelling 3023, family 3713, Henry B. Rathbun; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 Oct 2012); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432, roll 48.

3 B. Rathbone; National Archives and Records Administration; U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865; digital images, "Connecticut L-M," Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 Oct 2012).

4 National Cemetery Administation., "U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006," database, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 15 Oct 2012), Benjamin N. Rathbone.

5 1850 U.S. census, New London, Connecticut, population schedule, Montville, p. 222, dwelling 2023, family 3713, Henry B. Rathbun; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 Oct 2012); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432, roll 48.

6 1850 U.S. census, New London, Connecticut, population schedule, Montville, p. 222, dwelling 2032, family 3713, Henry B. Rathbun; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 Oct 2012); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432, roll 48.

7 "Andersonville Prisoners of War," database, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 Oct 2012), Benjamin H. Rathbone; Ancestry.com.

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