Acton Memorial Library Civil War Archives | Civil War Records of Edwin G. Thomas

Civil War Records of Edwin G. Thomas

Service

Co.	Regiment / Ship	From	To	Residence/ Credit	Occupation	Notes
E	6th MVI (100 days)	Private; enl. July 8, 1864; must. July 18, 1864	must. out Oct. 27, 1864	Acton	spinner	recorded as age 18 [actual age 15]
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Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): x
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): page 32-33 (PDF)

Pension

Co.	Regiment	Date Filed	Type	App. No.	Cert. No.	State	Beneficiary/Remarks
E	6th MVI	Sept. 6, 1911	Widow	971 339	730 307	Conn.	Adelaide F. Thomas

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

Grand Army of the Republic

Death

Date	August 25, 1911
Place	Montville, Conn.
Age	age 62
Cause	cancer of stomach and liver
Obituary
Funeral
Burial	Rogers Cemetery #4, Massapeag Point, Montville, Conn. (Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War National Graves Registration Database, http://www.suvcwdb.org)
Survived by	Adelaide F. Thomas

Additional Information

Born July 6, 1849 in Roxbury, Mass. (source: Connecticut death certificate in pension file).

Edwin G. Thomas is tentatively identified as Edwin Guildford Thomas, brother of Calvin and James Thomas:

Edwin Thomas, age 2, is recorded as an inhabitant of Vienna, Maine, in the 1850 federal census, in household (dwelling no. 65/70) of Henry and Malvina Thomas. Also in the household were Calvin Thomas and James Thomas ("1850 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

Edwin G. Thomas, age 12, is recorded as an inhabitant of Roxbury Ward 3, Norfolk, Massachusetts, in the 1860 federal census, in household (dwelling no. 2769/4067) of Henry and Malvina Thomas. Also in the household were Calvin Thomas and James Thomas ("1860 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

Edwin Guilford Thomas, age 18, road laborer, born in Maine, is recorded in the 1865 Massachusetts State Census for Acton at residence of Henry Currier and Malvina Thomas, and family, including Calvin Porter Thomas and James Sulivan Thomas (Lainhart, 1855 and 1865 Massachusetts State Censuses for Acton: 73).