Acton Memorial Library Civil War Archives | Civil War Records of Frank Waldo Ames

Civil War Records of Frank W. Ames

Service

Co.	Regiment/Ship	From	To	Residence	Occupation	Notes
E	6th MVI (100 Days)	Private; enl. July 15, 1864; must. July 18, 1864	must. out Oct. 27, 1864	Acton	bookkeeper	age 19
MASSCW, 1:449

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): x
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): page 30-31 (PDF)

Pension

Co.	Regiment	Date Filed	Type	App. No.	Cert. No.	State	Beneficiary/Remarks
E	6th MVI	April 1, 1902	Invalid	1 283 378		Mass.
E	6th MVI	March 21, 1907	Widow	866 826	636 241	Mass.	Georgiana Ames

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives): 5 pages (PDF*)

Grand Army of the Republic

Death

Date	March 15, 1907
Place	Brookline, Mass.
Age
Cause
Obituary	Brookline Chronicle, March 9,1907
Funeral
Burial
Survived by	Georgiana Ames

Additional Information

Frank Waldo Ames, age 8, is recorded in the 1855 Massachusetts State Census for Acton, in household (no. 275/281) of Abel Jones. Also in the household were [his mother] Charlott Hapgood Ames and [brother] George Theadore Ames, age 11. (Lainhart, 1855 and 1865 Massachusetts State Censuses for Acton, p. 34).

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

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